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Semiconductor Materials & Equipment

Semiconductor Materials & Equipment is gaining market weight. Lost weight for 3 consecutive months.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Reversing downwardConcentrated

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

Universe weight
0.50%
$0.15T
12-month change
+0.19 pp
6-month change
-0.02 pp
3-month change
-0.09 pp
Company participation
0%
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+0.042 pp
Industry total+0.194 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 96% 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 – Mar 2022 · market weight (%)

0.00.30.620182019202020212022

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

7413719920182019202020212022

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average0%
Above their 6M universe-weight average0%
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+0.19 pp
Relative strength · 12M-7.2%
Price index return · 12M-0.9%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation gained 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
Applied Materials →
AMAT
Semiconductor Materials & EquipmentUnited States0.392%+0.152 pp-0.7%0.0
Teradyne →
TER
Semiconductor Materials & EquipmentUnited States0.065%+0.025 pp-2.5%0.0
KLA Corporation →
KLAC
Semiconductor Materials & EquipmentUnited States0.019%+0.009 pp+12.1%0.0
Lam Research →
LRCX
Semiconductor Materials & EquipmentUnited States0.025%+0.009 pp-8.8%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Mar 20220.500%-0.023 pp-0.086 pp-0.017 pp+0.194 pp-7.2%
Feb 20220.523%-0.002 pp-0.063 pp+0.002 pp+0.238 pp+2.3%
Jan 20220.525%-0.062 pp-0.009 pp-0.035 pp+0.241 pp+19.9%
Dec 20210.587%+0.000 pp+0.069 pp-0.002 pp+0.143 pp+45.6%
Nov 20210.586%+0.053 pp+0.065 pp+0.005 pp+0.144 pp+42.3%
Oct 20210.534%+0.016 pp-0.027 pp-0.033 pp+0.171 pp+55.4%
Sep 20210.518%-0.003 pp-0.071 pp+0.212 pp+0.517 pp+57.3%
Aug 20210.521%-0.039 pp-0.061 pp+0.236 pp+0.521 pp+58.5%
Jul 20210.560%-0.028 pp-0.006 pp+0.277 pp+0.560 pp+51.6%
Jun 20210.588%+0.007 pp+0.282 pp+0.145 pp+0.588 pp+58.4%
May 20210.582%+0.015 pp+0.296 pp+0.140 pp+0.581 pp+64.7%
Apr 20210.567%+0.261 pp+0.283 pp+0.204 pp+0.276 pp+71.8%
Mar 20210.306%+0.021 pp-0.138 pp+0.306 pp+0.306 pp+77.2%
Feb 20210.285%+0.001 pp-0.157 pp+0.285 pp+0.285 pp+53.0%
Jan 20210.284%-0.160 pp-0.079 pp+0.284 pp-0.012 pp+40.7%
Dec 20200.444%+0.002 pp+0.443 pp+0.443 pp+0.135 pp+25.5%
Nov 20200.442%+0.079 pp+0.442 pp+0.442 pp+0.140 pp+27.7%
Oct 20200.363%+0.363 pp+0.363 pp+0.072 pp+0.067 pp+8.7%
Sep 20200.000%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.276 pp+10.8%
Aug 20200.000%-0.000 pp-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.270 pp+13.8%
Jul 20200.000%-0.000 pp-0.290 pp-0.296 pp-0.274 pp+26.7%
Jun 20200.000%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.308 pp-0.252 pp+37.4%
May 20200.000%-0.290 pp+0.000 pp-0.302 pp-0.236 pp+41.4%
Apr 20200.290%+0.290 pp-0.006 pp-0.005 pp+0.029 pp+23.0%
Mar 20200.000%-0.000 pp-0.308 pp-0.276 pp-0.242 pp+33.8%
Feb 20200.000%-0.296 pp-0.302 pp-0.270 pp-0.236 pp+48.0%
Jan 20200.296%-0.013 pp+0.000 pp+0.022 pp+0.159 pp+32.7%
Dec 20190.309%+0.007 pp+0.033 pp+0.057 pp+0.184 pp+51.8%
Nov 20190.302%+0.006 pp+0.031 pp+0.066 pp+0.167 pp+40.6%
Oct 20190.296%+0.020 pp+0.021 pp+0.034 pp+0.174 pp+51.7%
Sep 20190.276%+0.005 pp+0.024 pp+0.034 pp+0.142 pp+32.3%
Aug 20190.271%-0.004 pp+0.035 pp+0.034 pp+0.119 pp+15.3%
Jul 20190.274%+0.022 pp+0.013 pp+0.137 pp-0.041 pp+1.7%
Jun 20190.252%+0.016 pp+0.010 pp+0.127 pp-0.057 pp-5.2%
May 20190.236%-0.025 pp-0.001 pp+0.101 pp-0.105 pp-20.2%
Apr 20190.261%+0.019 pp+0.124 pp+0.139 pp-0.088 pp-12.2%
Mar 20190.242%+0.006 pp+0.118 pp+0.109 pp-0.147 pp-27.2%
Feb 20190.237%+0.099 pp+0.102 pp+0.086 pp-0.155 pp-29.6%
Jan 20190.137%+0.013 pp+0.016 pp-0.177 pp-0.213 pp-18.6%
Dec 20180.125%-0.010 pp-0.009 pp-0.185 pp-0.226 pp-26.5%
Nov 20180.135%+0.013 pp-0.016 pp-0.206 pp-0.216 pp-22.4%
Oct 20180.122%-0.012 pp-0.193 pp-0.227 pp-0.229 pp-30.6%
Sep 20180.134%-0.017 pp-0.176 pp-0.256 pp-0.217 pp-25.1%
Aug 20180.151%-0.164 pp-0.190 pp-0.241 pp-0.200 pp-15.9%
Jul 20180.315%+0.005 pp-0.034 pp-0.036 pp-0.036 pp-5.2%
Jun 20180.309%-0.032 pp-0.080 pp-0.041 pp-0.041 pp-7.7%
May 20180.341%-0.008 pp-0.051 pp-0.010 pp-0.010 pp+1.1%
Apr 20180.349%-0.040 pp-0.002 pp-0.002 pp-0.002 pp-1.6%
Mar 20180.389%-0.003 pp+0.039 pp+0.039 pp+0.039 pp+10.4%
Feb 20180.392%+0.041 pp+0.041 pp+0.041 pp+0.041 pp+12.1%
Jan 20180.351%+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.