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Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals is gaining market weight. Lost weight for 2 consecutive months.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
SlowingConcentrated

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

Universe weight
2.02%
$0.35T
12-month change
+0.32 pp
6-month change
+0.32 pp
3-month change
+0.03 pp
Company participation
50%
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
HP Inc. →+0.195 pp
All other companies+0.128 pp
Industry total+0.323 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 100% 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 – Jul 2018 · market weight (%)

1.71.92.12018

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

1011071142018

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average17%
Above their 6M universe-weight average50%
Above their 12M universe-weight average0%
Top 5 share of current industry market cap95.6%

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+0.32 pp
Relative strength · 12M+13.0%
Price index return · 12M+9.9%
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

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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
HP Inc. →
HPQ
Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsUnited States0.217%+0.195 pp+0.1%0.0
Apple Inc. →
AAPL
Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsUnited States1.364%+0.138 pp+14.6%0.0
NetApp →
NTAP
Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsUnited States0.119%+0.026 pp+27.1%0.0
Western Digital →
WDC
Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsUnited States0.093%-0.021 pp-20.2%0.0
Hewlett Packard Enterprise →
HPE
Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsUnited States0.136%-0.013 pp-4.8%0.0
Seagate Technology →
STX
Technology Hardware, Storage & PeripheralsUnited States0.088%-0.002 pp-2.6%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Jul 20182.017%-0.049 pp+0.029 pp+0.323 pp+0.323 pp+13.0%
Jun 20182.066%-0.014 pp+0.041 pp+0.372 pp+0.372 pp+14.7%
May 20182.080%+0.093 pp+0.220 pp+0.386 pp+0.386 pp+14.0%
Apr 20181.988%-0.037 pp+0.294 pp+0.294 pp+0.294 pp+5.6%
Mar 20182.025%+0.164 pp+0.331 pp+0.331 pp+0.331 pp+8.1%
Feb 20181.860%+0.167 pp+0.167 pp+0.167 pp+0.167 pp+10.7%
Jan 20181.694%+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.