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Semiconductor Materials & Equipment

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

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
AcceleratingConcentrated

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

Universe weight
0.90%
$0.46T
12-month change
+0.31 pp
6-month change
+0.33 pp
3-month change
+0.31 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
All other companies+0.138 pp
Industry total+0.313 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 91% 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

Dec 2020 – Nov 2025 · market weight (%)

0.30.60.920212022202320242025

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

14520526520212022202320242025

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average80%
Above their 6M universe-weight average100%
Above their 12M universe-weight average80%
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+0.31 pp
Relative strength · 12M+46.3%
Price index return · 12M+72.8%
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
Lam Research →
LRCX
Semiconductor Materials & EquipmentUnited States0.385%+0.175 pp+113.4%0.0
Applied Materials →
AMAT
Semiconductor Materials & EquipmentUnited States0.395%+0.077 pp+45.8%0.0
Qnity Electronics →
Q
Semiconductor Materials & EquipmentUnited States0.033%+0.033 pp+0.0%0.0
Teradyne →
TER
Semiconductor Materials & EquipmentUnited States0.056%+0.016 pp+66.1%0.0
KLA Corporation →
KLAC
Semiconductor Materials & EquipmentUnited States0.030%+0.011 pp+83.2%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Nov 20250.899%+0.061 pp+0.308 pp+0.329 pp+0.313 pp+46.3%
Oct 20250.838%+0.100 pp+0.217 pp+0.273 pp+0.200 pp+33.6%
Sep 20250.738%+0.147 pp+0.096 pp+0.183 pp+0.251 pp+6.1%
Aug 20250.591%-0.030 pp+0.021 pp+0.023 pp+0.092 pp-15.7%
Jul 20250.621%-0.021 pp+0.056 pp+0.000 pp+0.228 pp-18.6%
Jun 20250.642%+0.071 pp+0.087 pp+0.065 pp+0.185 pp-26.3%
May 20250.570%+0.005 pp+0.002 pp-0.016 pp+0.145 pp-30.0%
Apr 20250.565%+0.011 pp-0.056 pp-0.073 pp-0.025 pp-28.1%
Mar 20250.555%-0.014 pp-0.022 pp+0.067 pp-0.030 pp-28.2%
Feb 20250.568%-0.053 pp-0.018 pp+0.069 pp-0.019 pp-25.2%
Jan 20250.621%+0.045 pp-0.017 pp+0.228 pp+0.115 pp-5.5%
Dec 20240.576%-0.010 pp+0.089 pp+0.120 pp+0.071 pp-11.3%
Nov 20240.586%-0.052 pp+0.087 pp+0.161 pp+0.099 pp-6.9%
Oct 20240.638%+0.151 pp+0.245 pp+0.048 pp+0.170 pp+3.3%
Sep 20240.488%-0.012 pp+0.031 pp-0.097 pp+0.000 pp+10.6%
Aug 20240.499%+0.106 pp+0.074 pp-0.088 pp-0.013 pp+5.8%
Jul 20240.393%-0.064 pp-0.197 pp-0.113 pp+0.041 pp+18.6%
Jun 20240.457%+0.031 pp-0.128 pp-0.049 pp+0.101 pp+35.5%
May 20240.425%-0.165 pp-0.162 pp-0.062 pp+0.075 pp+29.5%
Apr 20240.590%+0.006 pp+0.084 pp+0.122 pp+0.178 pp+46.5%
Mar 20240.585%-0.002 pp+0.079 pp+0.098 pp+0.130 pp+31.9%
Feb 20240.587%+0.081 pp+0.100 pp+0.075 pp+0.145 pp+35.7%
Jan 20240.506%+0.000 pp+0.038 pp+0.154 pp+0.088 pp+25.4%
Dec 20230.505%+0.018 pp+0.018 pp+0.150 pp+0.120 pp+33.3%
Nov 20230.487%+0.019 pp-0.025 pp+0.137 pp+0.077 pp+20.5%
Oct 20230.468%-0.019 pp+0.116 pp+0.056 pp+0.118 pp+30.7%
Sep 20230.487%-0.025 pp+0.131 pp+0.032 pp+0.127 pp+36.7%
Aug 20230.512%+0.160 pp+0.161 pp+0.070 pp+0.136 pp+38.6%
Jul 20230.352%-0.004 pp-0.060 pp-0.066 pp-0.064 pp+24.1%
Jun 20230.356%+0.006 pp-0.099 pp-0.030 pp-0.049 pp+33.0%
May 20230.350%-0.062 pp-0.092 pp-0.060 pp-0.126 pp+11.2%
Apr 20230.412%-0.042 pp-0.005 pp+0.062 pp-0.043 pp-0.2%
Mar 20230.455%+0.013 pp+0.069 pp+0.095 pp-0.046 pp+1.9%
Feb 20230.442%+0.024 pp+0.032 pp+0.066 pp-0.081 pp-3.9%
Jan 20230.418%+0.032 pp+0.068 pp+0.002 pp-0.107 pp-9.6%
Dec 20220.386%-0.024 pp+0.026 pp-0.019 pp-0.201 pp-24.1%
Nov 20220.410%+0.060 pp+0.034 pp-0.066 pp-0.176 pp-17.1%
Oct 20220.350%-0.010 pp-0.066 pp-0.105 pp-0.183 pp-18.4%
Sep 20220.360%-0.016 pp-0.045 pp-0.140 pp-0.158 pp-17.2%
Aug 20220.376%-0.040 pp-0.100 pp-0.147 pp-0.145 pp-15.0%
Jul 20220.416%+0.011 pp-0.039 pp-0.109 pp-0.145 pp-12.9%
Jun 20220.405%-0.071 pp-0.095 pp-0.182 pp-0.183 pp-22.0%
May 20220.476%+0.021 pp-0.047 pp-0.110 pp-0.106 pp-7.9%
Apr 20220.455%-0.045 pp-0.070 pp-0.079 pp-0.112 pp-10.8%
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%
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.