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Communications Equipment

Communications Equipment is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 2 consecutive months.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
AcceleratingConcentrated

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

Universe weight
1.06%
$0.33T
12-month change
+0.13 pp
6-month change
+0.10 pp
3-month change
+0.07 pp
Company participation
100%
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
Cisco →+0.091 pp
All other companies+0.038 pp
Industry total+0.129 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 97% of gross gains. 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 2018 – Dec 2021 · market weight (%)

0.10.81.52018201920202021

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

941161382018201920202021

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 average100%
Above their 12M universe-weight average100%
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+0.13 pp
Relative strength · 12M+24.6%
Price index return · 12M+47.8%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation gained weight while relative performance rose. At least 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
Cisco →
CSCO
Communications EquipmentUnited States0.856%+0.091 pp+45.8%0.0
Motorola Solutions →
MSI
Communications EquipmentUnited States0.147%+0.030 pp+61.9%0.0
F5, Inc. →
FFIV
Communications EquipmentUnited States0.048%+0.004 pp+39.1%0.0
Arista Networks →
ANET
Communications EquipmentUnited States0.009%+0.003 pp+97.9%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Dec 20211.060%+0.079 pp+0.068 pp+0.096 pp+0.129 pp+24.6%
Nov 20210.981%+0.003 pp-0.036 pp+0.012 pp+0.037 pp+12.4%
Oct 20210.978%-0.014 pp-0.001 pp+0.037 pp+0.089 pp+17.3%
Sep 20210.992%-0.025 pp+0.028 pp+0.475 pp+0.991 pp+13.8%
Aug 20211.017%+0.038 pp+0.048 pp+0.553 pp+1.016 pp+14.1%
Jul 20210.979%+0.015 pp+0.037 pp+0.427 pp+0.978 pp-5.0%
Jun 20210.964%-0.005 pp+0.447 pp+0.032 pp+0.963 pp-12.2%
May 20210.969%+0.027 pp+0.505 pp+0.025 pp+0.968 pp-16.1%
Apr 20210.941%+0.424 pp+0.390 pp+0.052 pp-0.255 pp-14.4%
Mar 20210.517%+0.053 pp-0.414 pp+0.516 pp+0.516 pp-10.0%
Feb 20210.464%-0.088 pp-0.480 pp+0.463 pp+0.463 pp-10.2%
Jan 20210.552%-0.380 pp-0.338 pp+0.550 pp-0.602 pp-13.3%
Dec 20200.931%-0.012 pp+0.930 pp+0.930 pp-0.249 pp-14.9%
Nov 20200.944%+0.054 pp+0.942 pp+0.942 pp-0.219 pp-13.3%
Oct 20200.890%+0.889 pp+0.888 pp-0.307 pp-0.361 pp-23.1%
Sep 20200.001%-0.000 pp-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-1.314 pp-24.2%
Aug 20200.001%-0.000 pp-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-1.300 pp-20.4%
Jul 20200.001%-0.000 pp-1.195 pp-1.152 pp-1.460 pp-18.4%
Jun 20200.001%-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-1.179 pp-1.463 pp-14.0%
May 20200.001%-1.195 pp+0.000 pp-1.161 pp-1.492 pp-10.2%
Apr 20201.196%+1.195 pp+0.043 pp-0.055 pp-0.368 pp-14.8%
Mar 20200.001%+0.000 pp-1.179 pp-1.314 pp-1.559 pp-14.1%
Feb 20200.001%-1.153 pp-1.161 pp-1.300 pp-1.522 pp-20.9%
Jan 20201.154%-0.026 pp-0.098 pp-0.308 pp+0.354 pp-10.5%
Dec 20191.180%+0.018 pp-0.135 pp-0.285 pp+0.378 pp-9.2%
Nov 20191.162%-0.089 pp-0.139 pp-0.332 pp+0.337 pp-12.2%
Oct 20191.251%-0.064 pp-0.210 pp-0.314 pp+0.435 pp-3.8%
Sep 20191.315%+0.014 pp-0.150 pp-0.245 pp+0.496 pp+3.6%
Aug 20191.301%-0.160 pp-0.193 pp-0.222 pp+0.467 pp+2.9%
Jul 20191.461%-0.004 pp-0.104 pp+0.661 pp+0.125 pp+28.8%
Jun 20191.465%-0.029 pp-0.095 pp+0.662 pp+0.058 pp+22.5%
May 20191.494%-0.071 pp-0.029 pp+0.669 pp+0.105 pp+25.4%
Apr 20191.565%+0.005 pp+0.765 pp+0.749 pp+0.083 pp+21.6%
Mar 20191.560%+0.037 pp+0.757 pp+0.741 pp+0.133 pp+25.7%
Feb 20191.523%+0.723 pp+0.698 pp+0.689 pp+0.072 pp+20.5%
Jan 20190.800%-0.003 pp-0.016 pp-0.536 pp-0.515 pp+25.9%
Dec 20180.802%-0.022 pp-0.016 pp-0.604 pp-0.512 pp+25.1%
Nov 20180.825%+0.009 pp-0.009 pp-0.564 pp-0.490 pp+28.3%
Oct 20180.816%-0.002 pp-0.520 pp-0.666 pp-0.499 pp+24.7%
Sep 20180.818%-0.016 pp-0.588 pp-0.608 pp-0.496 pp+22.4%
Aug 20180.834%-0.502 pp-0.554 pp-0.616 pp-0.481 pp+20.9%
Jul 20181.336%-0.070 pp-0.146 pp+0.021 pp+0.021 pp+8.4%
Jun 20181.406%+0.018 pp-0.021 pp+0.091 pp+0.091 pp+12.3%
May 20181.388%-0.094 pp-0.062 pp+0.074 pp+0.074 pp+10.2%
Apr 20181.482%+0.055 pp+0.167 pp+0.167 pp+0.167 pp+14.3%
Mar 20181.427%-0.024 pp+0.112 pp+0.112 pp+0.112 pp+9.8%
Feb 20181.450%+0.136 pp+0.136 pp+0.136 pp+0.136 pp+12.6%
Jan 20181.315%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.0%
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.