Week Ending: 11 September 2026

Australia AU Healthcare Industry

Medical Instruments & Supplies

For the week ending 11 September 2026, Medical Instruments & Supplies declined 2.65% with 0 advancing, 4 declining, and 3 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and the constituent tape shows uncapped security returns.

Current architecture Unresolved

The Activity Lines, Trend Line and price acceptance remain genuinely mixed.

33 technical evidence
Index504.86 1 week-2.65% Breadth0% Members7
Country 🇦🇺 Australia · AU
Sector Healthcare
Universe country-listed
Price basis Adjusted weekly close

Trend architecture

Index, activity fan and structural anchors

Rolling 156-week evidence. Trend Signal points mark weeks when price, trend and the activity fan confirmed together.

Index Value Trend Line Fair Value Activity Lines Constructive architecture Transitional architecture Defensive architecture
Current architecture Unresolved 4 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance -8.1% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Negative across every horizon
Participation 0% 0 advancing, 4 declining

Investor positioning lens

Is the evidence ready for capital?

A rules-based technical classification using trend, breadth, persistence, relative strength and path quality.

Current posture Defensive posture

The weight of trend, participation and relative evidence favours capital protection over new exposure.

33 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Defensive
Trend
26
Breadth
23
Persistence
38
Relative
36
Risk quality
64
What supports the view
  • No major confirming factor has secured control.
What restrains conviction
  • Index trend architecture has not delivered a durable upward expansion.
  • Breadth remains too narrow or inconsistent for a high-conviction position.
  • Constituent persistence remains divided or predominantly negative.
  • The group is not yet delivering dependable relative outperformance.
  • Stage 4 declining constituents exceed Stage 2 advancing constituents by 42 percentage points.

This is a weekly research classification, not personal investment advice. Sentiment is reported as an independent confirmation layer and does not alter the technical score.

Trend state and durability

Architecture, persistence and constituent regimes

The index path is tested against the underlying security-level trend evidence.

Index architecture Unresolved

The Activity Lines, Trend Line and price acceptance remain genuinely mixed.

State age4 weeks
Trend gateDown
Fan width2.60%
Fast versus slow change2.53 pts
Above 0% Below 17%
Six completed weeks of price acceptance relative to the full Activity Line fan.
Index persistence

Negative across every horizon

100% agreement

The 13, 26, 39 and 52-week trends all point downward, confirming persistent contraction.

13-week
-0.7%
26-week
-18.3%
39-week
-28.7%
52-week
-34.0%
Regime age54 weeks 52-week flips0 52-week boundary764.70
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive29%
Coherent negative29%
Average horizon agreement89%
Positive horizon share36%
Weakening positives0
Repairing negatives2

7 constituents measured as of 11 Sep 2026. Median trend age is 27 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

100% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing0%0 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing29%2 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution0%0 securities
Stage 4 · Declining71%5 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch1 Relative strength leaders29% Fair Value repairs0

Measured as of 11 Sep 2026. Stages summarize price, Activity Line architecture, Fair Value position and relative evidence.

Architecture breadth

How market energy is distributed

82/100 mean confidence
Upward expansion
29% 2
Rotation up
14% 1
Deceleration
0% 0
Balance
0% 0
Rotation down
0% 0
Downward expansion
57% 4
Unresolved
0% 0

Architecture breadth shows the distribution of expanding, rotating, balancing and contracting securities. It is diagnostic context and is not added as a second vote in the positioning score.

Capital rotation

Performance relative to Healthcare

Weakening
Relative index 13-week relative trend Starting level
Rotation dashboard Weakening

A rising relative line means this group is compounding faster than Healthcare. A falling line means capital has done better in the parent benchmark.

Relative index86.2
13-week trend85.0
4-week trend change-0.12%
Weekly peer rank5 of 8
1 week
1.0 pts relative
4 weeks
0.8 pts relative
13 weeks
1.4 pts relative
26 weeks
-5.6 pts relative
52 weeks
-12.1 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

Equal-weight index evidence with constituent-level breadth and dispersion.

Breadth

Participation quality

Narrow
Advancing
0
Declining
4
Unchanged
3
4-week average 39%
13-week average 45%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility20.3%
Drawdown from 52-week high-37.4%
Positive weeks, last 1346%
Current directional run1 week
Turnover versus 13-week norm179%
Breadth impulse-48.8 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

7 measured
Q1 -3.8% Median -2.2% Q3 0.0%
Average winner%
Average loser-4.6%
Dispersion3.0 pts
Top-five upside sharen/a
Top-five capital share100%
Capital data coverage100%

Dispersion describes how far constituent outcomes are spreading apart. Capital concentration is contextual only; the index itself is equal weighted.

Momentum cycle

30-week persistence

Positive readings show expansion. Negative readings show contraction.

Breadth cycle

Net participation

Advancers less decliners as a percentage of measured constituents.

News and narrative

Does company news confirm the market tape?

Open Sentiment Intelligence
Sentiment evidence is still developing

Qualified company-level news coverage is not yet broad enough to influence the group view.

0 qualified records across 7 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 7 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 AHC Austco Healthcare Limited ASX 101.18M 0.27 0.00 pts
0.00%
2 NAN Nanosonics Limited ASX 824.99M 2.76 0.00 pts
0.00%
3 OSX Osteopore Limited ASX 2.77M 0.004 0.00 pts
0.00%
4 ANN Ansell Limited ASX 5.82B 41.34 -0.31 pts
-2.18%
5 FPH Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited ASX 20.71B 35.20 -0.46 pts
-3.24%
6 RMD ResMed Inc. ASX 43.72B 30.31 -0.62 pts
-4.32%
7 TRJ Trajan Group Holdings Limited ASX 23.69M 0.155 -1.26 pts
-8.82%

The index uses capped equal-weight weekly constituent returns. The ledger shows uncapped security returns so outliers remain visible for research.

Evidence context