XLP · WMTMT

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30-minute bars · index reconstructed live from member prices

Breadth

30 / 34

stocks rose with the index

Concentration

45%

of the gain from WMT, PM, MO

Biggest driver

WMT +0.61

WALMART INC, +6.80%

Biggest drag

TGT −0.09

TARGET CORP, −1.45%

What drove it

34 members · drivers first · 1W · residual 14.0bp within 60bp gate

The XLP rose 3.58% (+2.89 pts) on the week in a broad advance: 30 of 34 stocks rose, with WMT out front at +0.61 points.

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+3.1 pts from 28 gainers−0.2 pts from 6 losers

net +2.9 pts · gainers outweigh losers 15.2 to 1

Stock

Points

Return

XLPsum of all 34 stocks

+2.9

+3.58%

WMTWALMART INC

+0.6

+6.80%

PMPHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL

+0.4

+7.32%

MOALTRIA GROUP INC

+0.3

+6.43%

PGPROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE

+0.3

+4.36%

COSTCOSTCO WHOLESALE CORP

+0.2

+2.85%

CLCOLGATE PALMOLIVE CO

+0.2

+4.76%

KOCOCA COLA CO/THE

+0.1

+2.80%

MDLZMONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL INC A

+0.1

+3.82%

VYLRVYLOR INC

+0.1

+8.86%

KRKROGER CO

+0.1

+4.40%

DGDOLLAR GENERAL CORP

+0.1

+7.47%

STZCONSTELLATION BRANDS INC A

+0.1

+8.66%

ELESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES CL A

+0.1

+6.63%

KDPKEURIG DR PEPPER INC

+0.1

+4.58%

CASYCASEY S GENERAL STORES INC

+0.1

+4.62%

DLTRDOLLAR TREE INC

+0.1

+5.78%

KMBKIMBERLY CLARK CORP

+0.1

+3.42%

CHDCHURCH + DWIGHT CO INC

+0.0

+4.00%

KVUEKENVUE INC

+0.0

+2.73%

MNSTMONSTER BEVERAGE CORP

+0.0

+1.63%

TSNTYSON FOODS INC CL A

+0.0

+2.96%

HSYHERSHEY CO/THE

+0.0

+1.57%

CLXCLOROX COMPANY

+0.0

+4.21%

MKCMCCORMICK + CO NON VTG SHRS

+0.0

+2.84%

SJMJM SMUCKER CO/THE

+0.0

+2.26%

SYYSYSCO CORP

+0.0

+0.84%

KHCKRAFT HEINZ CO/THE

+0.0

+0.32%

GISGENERAL MILLS INC

+0.0

+0.87%

BF-BBROWN FORMAN CORP CLASS B

−0.0

+0.84%

HRLHORMEL FOODS CORP

−0.0

−5.19%

PEPPEPSICO INC

−0.0

+0.06%

ADMARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO

−0.0

−0.68%

BGBUNGE GLOBAL SA

−0.0

−3.73%

TGTTARGET CORP

−0.1

−1.45%

Cap weighting, illustrated

COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP and MCCORMICK + CO NON VTG SHRS moved almost identically (+2.85% vs +2.84%), yet COST moved the XLP 16.9× as much. In a cap-weighted index, the bigger company's weight turns the same percentage move into far more points.

Attribution map

slicing the +2.89 pt move · cell size = points contributed · color = direction, intensity = return

WMT+0.6 pts(+6.8%)

PM+0.4 pts(+7.3%)

MO+0.3 pts(+6.4%)

PG+0.3 pts(+4.4%)

COST+0.2 pts(+2.9%)

CL+0.2 pts(+4.8%)

KO+0.1 pts

MDLZ+0.1 pts(+3.8%)

VYLR+0.1 pts

KR+0.1 pts

DG+0.1 pts(+7.5%)

STZ+0.1 pts(+8.7%)

TGT−0.1 pts(−1.5%)

EL+0.1 pts

KDP+0.1 pts

CASY+0.1 pts(+4.6%)

DLTR+0.1 pts(+5.8%)

KMB+0.1 pts

CHD

KVUE

ADM

MNST+0.0 pts

PEP

TSN

HRL

SJM

SYY

Concentration curve

cumulative share of the +2.89 pt move · sorted by contribution

When they drove it

cumulative points through the period

Breadth

member returns, this period

−6%−2%+2%+6%

From −5.19% (HRL) to +8.86% (VYLR). Equal-weight, the XLP would be +3.16% vs the actual +3.58%; the gap is what cap weighting did.

By sector

point contribution · sums to +2.89 pts

-34

+2.9

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