Week Ending: 28 August 2026

Australia AU Technology Industry

Software - Infrastructure

For the week ending 28 August 2026, Software - Infrastructure declined 0.16% with 14 advancing, 18 declining, and 7 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
Index430.38 1 week-0.16% Breadth36% Members39
Country 🇦🇺 Australia · AU
Sector Technology
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 2 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance -8.2% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Negative across every horizon
Participation 36% 14 advancing, 18 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
36
Persistence
22
Relative
39
Risk quality
63
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 49 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 age2 weeks
Trend gateDown
Fan width5.02%
Fast versus slow change2.58 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
-7.9%
26-week
-18.6%
39-week
-30.5%
52-week
-31.4%
Regime age39 weeks 52-week flips3 52-week boundary627.20
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

97% coverage
Coherent positive8%
Coherent negative42%
Average horizon agreement82%
Positive horizon share26%
Weakening positives3
Repairing negatives6

38 constituents measured as of 28 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 20 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

95% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing19%7 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing16%6 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution0%0 securities
Stage 4 · Declining65%24 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch1 Relative strength leaders11% Fair Value repairs3

Measured as of 28 Aug 2026. Stages summarize price, Activity Line architecture, Fair Value position and relative evidence.

Architecture breadth

How market energy is distributed

76/100 mean confidence
Upward expansion
16% 6
Rotation up
11% 4
Deceleration
3% 1
Balance
14% 5
Rotation down
0% 0
Downward expansion
57% 21
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 Technology

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

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

Relative index86.2
13-week trend86.1
4-week trend change-0.20%
Weekly peer rank4 of 6
1 week
-0.6 pts relative
4 weeks
-2.4 pts relative
13 weeks
0.5 pts relative
26 weeks
-2.3 pts relative
52 weeks
-7.3 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Narrow
Advancing
14
Declining
18
Unchanged
7
4-week average 44%
13-week average 37%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility16.9%
Drawdown from 52-week high-35.6%
Positive weeks, last 1331%
Current directional run2 weeks
Turnover versus 13-week norm282%
Breadth impulse-0.9 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

39 measured
Q1 -6.4% Median 0.0% Q3 5.5%
Average winner11.2%
Average loser-8.1%
Dispersion10.9 pts
Top-five upside share64%
Top-five capital share97%
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 39 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 39 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 W2V Way 2 Vat Ltd ASX 18.27M 0.07 0.64 pts
42.86%
2 EXT Excite Technology Services Limited ASX 15.74M 0.006 0.51 pts
20.00%
3 B4P Beforepay Group Limited ASX 100.09M 1.97 0.41 pts
15.88%
4 ACE Acusensus Limited ASX 215.14M 1.29 0.32 pts
12.66%
5 GTK Gentrack Group Limited ASX 410.48M 3.82 0.23 pts
9.14%
6 XPN XPON Technologies Group Limited ASX 5.91M 0.012 0.23 pts
9.09%
7 QFE QuickFee Limited ASX 32.35M 0.084 0.23 pts
8.92%
8 FCT FirstWave Cloud Technology Limited ASX 14.89M 0.007 0.20 pts
7.69%
9 CC5 Clever Culture Systems Limited ASX 34.92M 0.016 0.17 pts
6.67%
10 AV1 Adveritas Limited ASX 61.16M 0.07 0.16 pts
6.06%
11 RZI Raiz Invest Limited ASX 66.40M 0.63 0.13 pts
5.00%
12 CYB AUCYBER FPO [CYB] ASX 8.56M 0.043 0.13 pts
4.88%
13 XYZ Block, Inc. ASX 71.08B 117.74 0.12 pts
4.87%
14 EPX EPX Limited ASX 16.00M 0.18 0.07 pts
2.86%
15 ADS Adslot Limited ASX 5.97M 0.001 0.00 pts
0.00%
16 ERD EROAD Limited ASX 152.35M 0.805 0.00 pts
0.00%
17 FND Findi Limited ASX 40.49M 0.405 0.00 pts
0.00%
18 KNO Knosys Limited ASX 5.40M 0.025 0.00 pts
0.00%
19 OVT OVANTILTD FPO [OVT] ASX 1.15M 0.002 0.00 pts
0.00%
20 SPX Spenda Limited ASX 2.42M 0.003 0.00 pts
0.00%
21 WHK WhiteHawk Limited ASX 4.60M 0.0035 0.00 pts
0.00%
22 AR9 archTIS Limited ASX 21.67M 0.044 -0.06 pts
-2.22%
23 NOV Novatti Group Limited ASX 10.91M 0.017 -0.07 pts
-2.86%
24 DCC DigitalX Limited ASX 41.89M 0.031 -0.08 pts
-3.13%
25 RTH RAS Technology Holdings Limited ASX 30.17M 0.64 -0.10 pts
-3.76%
26 TAL Talius Group Limited ASX 20.66M 0.064 -0.11 pts
-4.48%
27 SKO Serko Limited ASX 154.52M 1.22 -0.14 pts
-5.41%
28 CCL CUSCAL LTD FPO [CCL] ASX 1.13B 5.49 -0.16 pts
-6.13%
29 AXQ AURACONGRP CDI 1:1 [AXQ] ASX 724.54M 3.21 -0.16 pts
-6.14%
30 DAI Decidr AI Industries Ltd ASX 118.08M 0.345 -0.17 pts
-6.76%
31 FCL FINEOS Corporation Holdings plc ASX 793.60M 2.16 -0.18 pts
-6.90%
32 WRK Wrkr Ltd ASX 151.37M 0.071 -0.20 pts
-7.79%
33 MP1 Megaport Limited ASX 4.13B 16.86 -0.21 pts
-8.27%
34 VFY VITRAFY FPO [VFY] ASX 282.47M 3.60 -0.27 pts
-10.67%
35 SNS SenSen Networks Limited ASX 26.56M 0.032 -0.28 pts
-11.11%
36 DWG DATAWORKS FPO [DWG] ASX 13.40M 0.13 -0.34 pts
-13.33%
37 EML EML Payments Limited ASX 89.58M 0.225 -0.35 pts
-13.46%
38 SEN Senetas Corporation Limited ASX 51.56M 2.56 -0.41 pts
-16.07%
39 TYR Tyro Payments Limited ASX 404.67M 0.75 -0.43 pts
-16.67%

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

Evidence context