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Rail Transportation

Rail Transportation is losing market weight. Lost weight for 1 consecutive month.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Losing steadilyConcentrated

Most of this industry's losses came from a few companies.

Universe weight
0.53%
$0.27T
12-month change
-0.05 pp
6-month change
-0.03 pp
3-month change
-0.02 pp
Company participation
33%
above their 6M weight average

Where did the weight change come from?

12-month contribution in universe percentage points · contributions add to the industry change

Company attribution
All other companies-0.002 pp
Industry total-0.047 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 100% of gross losses. Opposing contributions can make an individual company’s change larger than the industry’s net change.

How has it moved through history?

Share of matched S&P 500 members

Jan 2021 – Dec 2025 · market weight (%)

0.50.81.120212022202320242025

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

9812415020212022202320242025

Is participation broad or concentrated?

Actual constituent counts at this date, not the legacy synthetic breadth proxy

Above their 3M universe-weight average100%
Above their 6M universe-weight average33%
Above their 12M universe-weight average0%
Top 5 share of current industry market cap100.0%

This is size concentration, not contribution to the 12-month change. The attribution above measures the latter.

Evidence can disagree

Independent dimensions · no combined score or bullish/bearish verdict

Allocation · 12M-0.05 pp
Relative strength · 12M-9.4%
Price index return · 12M+11.0%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation lost weight while relative performance fell. Fewer than half of constituents are above their 6M weight average. These observations need not agree.
Other evidence and availability

Valuation data: unavailable; shown as zero placeholder.

Attention data: unavailable; shown as zero placeholder.

Actual fund flows: unavailable. No ETF, mutual-fund or institutional flow feed is connected.

Volume / turnover: unavailable in this dataset.

Follow the contribution to individual companies

Sorted by absolute 12-month weight contribution, not investment merit

CompanySub-industryCountryUniverse weight12M contribution12M price returnRevisions
Union Pacific Corporation →
UNP
Rail TransportationUnited States0.269%-0.045 pp+3.9%0.0
CSX Corporation →
CSX
Rail TransportationUnited States0.132%-0.009 pp+14.1%0.0
Norfolk Southern →
NSC
Rail TransportationUnited States0.127%+0.006 pp+25.6%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Dec 20250.528%-0.000 pp-0.020 pp-0.025 pp-0.047 pp-9.4%
Nov 20250.528%+0.016 pp-0.003 pp-0.033 pp-0.092 pp-15.5%
Oct 20250.512%-0.036 pp-0.037 pp-0.045 pp-0.104 pp-15.3%
Sep 20250.548%+0.017 pp-0.005 pp-0.050 pp-0.088 pp-10.7%
Aug 20250.531%-0.018 pp-0.030 pp-0.063 pp-0.147 pp-17.5%
Jul 20250.549%-0.004 pp-0.008 pp-0.054 pp+0.055 pp-14.3%
Jun 20250.553%-0.008 pp-0.046 pp-0.022 pp+0.081 pp-8.7%
May 20250.561%+0.003 pp-0.033 pp-0.060 pp+0.066 pp-11.9%
Apr 20250.557%-0.041 pp-0.046 pp-0.059 pp-0.201 pp-17.5%
Mar 20250.599%+0.005 pp+0.024 pp-0.038 pp-0.178 pp-13.5%
Feb 20250.593%-0.010 pp-0.027 pp-0.084 pp-0.227 pp-16.9%
Jan 20250.603%+0.028 pp-0.013 pp+0.110 pp-0.207 pp-15.1%
Dec 20240.575%-0.046 pp-0.061 pp+0.103 pp-0.235 pp-18.2%
Nov 20240.621%+0.004 pp-0.057 pp+0.126 pp-0.160 pp-8.6%
Oct 20240.616%-0.020 pp+0.123 pp-0.142 pp-0.161 pp-10.8%
Sep 20240.636%-0.041 pp+0.164 pp-0.141 pp-0.134 pp-7.3%
Aug 20240.677%+0.184 pp+0.183 pp-0.143 pp-0.092 pp-3.1%
Jul 20240.494%+0.021 pp-0.264 pp-0.317 pp-0.076 pp-7.3%
Jun 20240.472%-0.022 pp-0.305 pp-0.338 pp-0.096 pp-11.2%
May 20240.495%-0.263 pp-0.326 pp-0.286 pp-0.066 pp-4.9%
Apr 20240.758%-0.019 pp-0.052 pp-0.020 pp-0.012 pp+1.4%
Mar 20240.777%-0.043 pp-0.033 pp+0.007 pp-0.019 pp+1.3%
Feb 20240.820%+0.010 pp+0.039 pp+0.050 pp-0.027 pp+0.1%
Jan 20240.810%-0.000 pp+0.033 pp+0.241 pp-0.037 pp+1.3%
Dec 20230.810%+0.029 pp+0.040 pp+0.242 pp-0.090 pp-6.6%
Nov 20230.781%+0.003 pp+0.011 pp+0.220 pp-0.108 pp-9.8%
Oct 20230.777%+0.008 pp+0.208 pp+0.008 pp-0.057 pp-7.9%
Sep 20230.770%-0.000 pp+0.202 pp-0.026 pp-0.126 pp-11.2%
Aug 20230.770%+0.200 pp+0.209 pp-0.077 pp-0.179 pp-15.5%
Jul 20230.569%+0.001 pp-0.200 pp-0.277 pp-0.359 pp-9.0%
Jun 20230.568%+0.007 pp-0.227 pp-0.332 pp-0.409 pp-10.4%
May 20230.561%-0.208 pp-0.286 pp-0.327 pp-0.391 pp-9.3%
Apr 20230.769%-0.026 pp-0.077 pp-0.065 pp-0.255 pp-16.5%
Mar 20230.796%-0.051 pp-0.105 pp-0.100 pp-0.297 pp-17.2%
Feb 20230.847%+0.000 pp-0.041 pp-0.102 pp-0.168 pp-3.8%
Jan 20230.847%-0.053 pp+0.013 pp-0.082 pp-0.160 pp-3.8%
Dec 20220.900%+0.012 pp+0.005 pp-0.077 pp-0.118 pp+2.9%
Nov 20220.888%+0.054 pp-0.060 pp-0.063 pp-0.101 pp+7.5%
Oct 20220.834%-0.061 pp-0.094 pp-0.190 pp-0.190 pp+2.2%
Sep 20220.896%-0.053 pp-0.082 pp-0.197 pp+0.004 pp+20.6%
Aug 20220.949%+0.020 pp-0.003 pp-0.066 pp+0.021 pp+21.5%
Jul 20220.928%-0.049 pp-0.096 pp-0.078 pp-0.029 pp+15.0%
Jun 20220.977%+0.026 pp-0.115 pp-0.041 pp+0.141 pp+11.2%
May 20220.952%-0.073 pp-0.063 pp-0.038 pp+0.075 pp+2.6%
Apr 20221.024%-0.068 pp+0.018 pp-0.000 pp+0.144 pp+9.7%
Mar 20221.092%+0.078 pp+0.074 pp+0.201 pp+0.623 pp+11.9%
Feb 20221.015%+0.008 pp+0.025 pp+0.087 pp+0.566 pp+6.7%
Jan 20221.007%-0.011 pp-0.018 pp+0.049 pp+0.492 pp+7.6%
Dec 20211.018%+0.028 pp+0.126 pp+0.182 pp+0.112 pp+5.1%
Nov 20210.990%-0.035 pp+0.062 pp+0.112 pp+0.052 pp-2.7%
Oct 20211.025%+0.133 pp+0.067 pp+0.144 pp+0.112 pp+2.3%
Sep 20210.892%-0.036 pp+0.056 pp+0.423 pp+0.891 pp-16.2%
Aug 20210.927%-0.030 pp+0.050 pp+0.478 pp+0.926 pp-8.1%
Jul 20210.957%+0.121 pp+0.077 pp+0.442 pp+0.956 pp-1.4%
Jun 20210.836%-0.041 pp+0.367 pp-0.070 pp+0.835 pp-0.5%
May 20210.877%-0.003 pp+0.428 pp-0.060 pp+0.876 pp+0.2%
Apr 20210.880%+0.411 pp+0.365 pp-0.032 pp-0.067 pp+1.8%
Mar 20210.469%+0.020 pp-0.437 pp+0.468 pp+0.468 pp+8.4%
Feb 20210.449%-0.066 pp-0.488 pp+0.448 pp+0.448 pp+3.0%
Jan 20210.515%-0.391 pp-0.397 pp+0.514 pp-0.465 pp-3.5%
How are these descriptive states defined?

Gaining / losing: 12-month weight change above +0.005pp / below −0.005pp. Direction and speed are separate dimensions, not mutually exclusive recommendations.

Accelerating / slowing: compare the most recent 3M change with the preceding 3M change. Accelerating means a positive change speeds up by >0.02pp. Slowing means the magnitude of movement declines by >0.02pp. A falling industry can also slow.

Reversing: the last two 3M changes have opposite signs, outside a ±0.005pp tolerance. Persistence counts consecutive same-direction monthly changes.

Broad / concentrated: company attribution, not a market-cap concentration shortcut. Concentrated means the three largest same-direction contributors account for ≥70% of gross same-direction changes; otherwise broad requires ≥60% of constituents moving with the industry. Other cases are mixed.

Weights use matched S&P 500 members’ market-cap estimates, based on SEC-reported shares available by each month-end and monthly closing prices. Companies without a matched price or share record are omitted, so the denominator is the matched sample rather than every index member. These are not official float-adjusted S&P weights. Flow is not measured.