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30-minute bars · index reconstructed live from member prices

Breadth

24 / 34

stocks rose with the index

Concentration

81%

of the gain from TGT, EL, KO

Biggest driver

TGT +0.28

TARGET CORP, +7.19%

Biggest drag

WMT −0.80

WALMART INC, −8.31%

What drove it

34 members · drivers first · 1W · residual 4.5bp within 60bp gate

The XLP rose 1.09% (+0.93 pts) on the week, and 81% of that gain came from just three stocks: TGT, EL, KO.

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+2.0 pts from 24 gainers−1.0 pts from 10 losers

net +0.9 pts · gainers outweigh losers 1.9 to 1

Stock

Points

Return

XLPsum of all 34 stocks

+0.9

+1.09%

TGTTARGET CORP

+0.3

+7.19%

ELESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES CL A

+0.3

+24.43%

KOCOCA COLA CO/THE

+0.2

+3.19%

PMPHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL

+0.2

+3.36%

MOALTRIA GROUP INC

+0.2

+4.42%

MNSTMONSTER BEVERAGE CORP

+0.1

+2.85%

KDPKEURIG DR PEPPER INC

+0.1

+3.41%

PGPROCTER + GAMBLE CO/THE

+0.1

+1.37%

KRKROGER CO

+0.1

+3.82%

KMBKIMBERLY CLARK CORP

+0.1

+3.06%

KVUEKENVUE INC

+0.1

+3.01%

PEPPEPSICO INC

+0.1

+1.53%

GISGENERAL MILLS INC

+0.1

+4.46%

CHDCHURCH + DWIGHT CO INC

+0.0

+3.44%

SJMJM SMUCKER CO/THE

+0.0

+5.97%

SYYSYSCO CORP

+0.0

+1.82%

DLTRDOLLAR TREE INC

+0.0

+3.07%

STZCONSTELLATION BRANDS INC A

+0.0

+3.08%

HSYHERSHEY CO/THE

+0.0

+1.99%

KHCKRAFT HEINZ CO/THE

+0.0

+2.01%

MDLZMONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL INC A

+0.0

+0.53%

DGDOLLAR GENERAL CORP

+0.0

+1.46%

BF-BBROWN FORMAN CORP CLASS B

+0.0

+3.79%

TAPMOLSON COORS BEVERAGE CO B

+0.0

+2.14%

CLXCLOROX COMPANY

−0.0

−0.55%

HRLHORMEL FOODS CORP

−0.0

−2.34%

CLCOLGATE PALMOLIVE CO

−0.0

−0.14%

MKCMCCORMICK + CO NON VTG SHRS

−0.0

−1.43%

TSNTYSON FOODS INC CL A

−0.0

−1.41%

BGBUNGE GLOBAL SA

−0.0

−2.31%

COSTCOSTCO WHOLESALE CORP

−0.0

−0.14%

CASYCASEY S GENERAL STORES INC

−0.1

−3.52%

ADMARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO

−0.1

−3.37%

WMTWALMART INC

−0.8

−8.31%

Cap weighting, illustrated

PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL and BROWN FORMAN CORP CLASS B moved almost identically (+3.36% vs +3.79%), yet PM moved the XLP 18.3× 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 +0.93 pt move · cell size = points contributed · color = direction, intensity = return

WMT−0.8 pts(−8.3%)

TGT+0.3 pts(+7.2%)

EL+0.3 pts(+24.4%)

KO+0.2 pts(+3.2%)

PM+0.2 pts(+3.4%)

MO+0.2 pts(+4.4%)

MNST+0.1 pts(+2.8%)

KDP+0.1 pts

PG+0.1 pts

ADM−0.1 pts(−3.4%)

KR+0.1 pts(+3.8%)

CASY−0.1 pts

KMB

KVUE+0.1 pts(+3.0%)

PEP+0.1 pts(+1.5%)

GIS+0.1 pts

CHD

SJM

SYY+0.0 pts

DLTR+0.0 pts

KHC

COST

MDLZ

Concentration curve

cumulative share of the +0.93 pt move · sorted by contribution

When they drove it

cumulative points through the period

Breadth

member returns, this period

−10%0%+10%+20%

From −8.31% (WMT) to +24.43% (EL). Equal-weight, the XLP would be +2.10% vs the actual +1.09%; the gap is what cap weighting did.

By sector

point contribution · sums to +0.93 pts

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