Week Ending: 28 August 2026

Canada CA Sector

Technology

For the week ending 28 August 2026, Technology advanced 0.81% with 20 advancing, 17 declining, and 2 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and built from country-listed equities.

Current architecture Deceleration

The positive Trend gate remains, but fan energy or fast-line momentum is cooling.

53 technical evidence
Index1403.05 1 week0.81% Breadth51% Members39
Country 🇨🇦 Canada · CA
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 Deceleration 3 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance -0.1% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 75% Negative regime, horizons divided
Participation 51% 20 advancing, 17 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 Hold and wait for confirmation

The evidence is balanced enough to avoid a defensive call, but not aligned enough for aggressive positioning.

53 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Wait
Trend
52
Breadth
56
Persistence
40
Relative
50
Risk quality
80
What supports the view
  • Participation is broad enough to support the index move.
What restrains conviction
  • Index trend architecture has not delivered a durable upward expansion.
  • Constituent persistence remains divided or predominantly negative.
  • The group is not yet delivering dependable relative outperformance.
  • Activity Line energy is decelerating despite the positive Trend gate.
  • Stage 4 declining constituents exceed Stage 2 advancing constituents by 13 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 Deceleration

The positive Trend gate remains, but fan energy or fast-line momentum is cooling.

State age3 weeks
Trend gateUp
Fan width1.26%
Fast versus slow change0.61 pts
Above 17% Below 50%
Six completed weeks of price acceptance relative to the full Activity Line fan.
Index persistence

Negative regime, horizons divided

75% agreement

The 52-week trend is negative, while shorter horizons remain mixed.

13-week
-7.8%
26-week
4.9%
39-week
-7.8%
52-week
-8.7%
Regime age10 weeks 52-week flips5 52-week boundary1536.00
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

95% coverage
Coherent positive11%
Coherent negative19%
Average horizon agreement71%
Positive horizon share44%
Weakening positives7
Repairing negatives13

37 constituents measured as of 28 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 47 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

95% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing30%11 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing19%7 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution19%7 securities
Stage 4 · Declining32%12 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch7 Relative strength leaders14% Fair Value repairs9

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

73/100 mean confidence
Upward expansion
30% 11
Rotation up
5% 2
Deceleration
24% 9
Balance
19% 7
Rotation down
5% 2
Downward expansion
16% 6
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 CA Market Structure

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

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

Relative index67.0
13-week trend70.4
4-week trend change-1.97%
Weekly peer rank1 of 11
1 week
1.4 pts relative
4 weeks
-6.0 pts relative
13 weeks
-9.3 pts relative
26 weeks
2.2 pts relative
52 weeks
-39.6 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Balanced
Advancing
20
Declining
17
Unchanged
2
4-week average 49%
13-week average 43%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility19.4%
Drawdown from 52-week high-13.9%
Positive weeks, last 1331%
Current directional run1 week
Turnover versus 13-week norm148%
Breadth impulse9.0 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

39 measured
Q1 -2.1% Median 0.1% Q3 3.1%
Average winner4.8%
Average loser-3.7%
Dispersion6.1 pts
Top-five upside share63%
Top-five capital share99%
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.

Industry map

Where sector leadership is forming

Performance, breadth and trend acceptance across every qualified industry.

3/4 positive
Above Trend Line1/425% of industries
Constructive breadth3/4At least half advancing
Median industry0.36%3.67 pts dispersion

News and narrative

Does company news confirm the market tape?

Open Sentiment Intelligence
Qualified weighted tone
55out of 100

More positive than negative

Positive company scores outnumber negative ones, but the overall score remains close to 50.

Evidence quality

Coverage before conviction

50/100 confidence
Qualified companies615% of measured constituents
Articles1219100% direct company evidence
Publishers98Independent sources represented
Latest evidence1 SepFreshness is weighted in the score
Constructive 50%Balanced 33%Cautious 17%
Price confirms news4
Price disagrees0
Negative news absorbed0
Positive but stretched2

Only fresh, quality-controlled company evidence is included. Industry and sector context is down-weighted and cannot create a directional group conclusion on its own.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Sector constituents

All 39 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 ORIO Orion Digital Corp. TOR 32.32M 1.55 0.64 pts
26.02%
2 TC Tucows Inc. TOR 162.92M 14.36 0.32 pts
12.63%
3 DTOL D2L Inc. TOR 536.50M 10.22 0.25 pts
9.77%
4 MSFT Microsoft Corporation TOR 4.96T 35.90 0.16 pts
6.06%
5 DSG The Descartes Systems Group Inc. TOR 9.59B 113.62 0.14 pts
5.40%
6 ABXX Abaxx Technologies Inc. TOR 877.52M 22.78 0.13 pts
4.98%
7 DCBO Docebo Inc. TOR 887.69M 35.67 0.12 pts
4.51%
8 CSU Constellation Software Inc. TOR 67.04B 3,163.56 0.10 pts
4.02%
9 SHOP Shopify Inc. TOR 263.03B 212.42 0.08 pts
3.30%
10 HAI Haivision Systems Inc. TOR 124.34M 4.49 0.08 pts
3.22%
11 AAPL Apple Inc. TOR 6.13T 45.01 0.08 pts
3.04%
12 OTEX Open Text Corporation TOR 8.39B 34.86 0.07 pts
2.62%
13 BB BlackBerry Limited TOR 6.65B 11.35 0.06 pts
2.34%
14 CLS Celestica Inc. TOR 52.40B 415.52 0.05 pts
1.93%
15 XTRA Xtract One Technologies Inc. TOR 137.76M 0.54 0.05 pts
1.89%
16 NVDA NVIDIA Corporation TOR 6.84T 48.52 0.03 pts
1.17%
17 LSPD Lightspeed Commerce Inc. TOR 1.91B 14.74 0.03 pts
1.03%
18 ALYA Alithya Group Inc. TOR 103.54M 1.07 0.02 pts
0.94%
19 GIB-A CGI Inc. TOR 21.36B 103.85 0.02 pts
0.69%
20 ENGH Enghouse Systems Limited TOR 929.75M 17.26 0.00 pts
0.12%
21 TCS Tecsys Inc. TOR 439.72M 31.00 0.00 pts
0.00%
22 THNC Thinkific Labs Inc. TOR 109.84M 1.51 0.00 pts
0.00%
23 KXS Kinaxis Inc. TOR 4.85B 178.68 -0.02 pts
-0.60%
24 SYZ Sylogist Ltd. TOR 72.51M 3.10 -0.02 pts
-0.96%
25 CMG Computer Modelling Group Ltd. TOR 311.98M 4.00 -0.03 pts
-1.23%
26 STC Sangoma Technologies Corporation TOR 183.03M 5.42 -0.03 pts
-1.28%
27 AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. TOR 988.40B 84.17 -0.04 pts
-1.51%
28 KEEL Keel Infrastructure Corp. TOR 2.68B 4.49 -0.04 pts
-1.54%
29 DBO D-BOX Technologies Inc. TOR 246.63M 1.11 -0.05 pts
-1.77%
30 TSAT Telesat Corporation TOR 912.55M 59.64 -0.06 pts
-2.47%
31 XNDU Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited TOR 4.53B 14.64 -0.06 pts
-2.53%
32 CVO Coveo Solutions Inc. TOR 403.35M 4.34 -0.10 pts
-3.77%
33 BYL Baylin Technologies Inc. TOR 70.35M 0.25 -0.10 pts
-3.85%
34 IMP Intermap Technologies Corporation TOR 70.36M 0.99 -0.10 pts
-3.88%
35 VCM Vecima Networks Inc. TOR 288.37M 12.10 -0.10 pts
-3.97%
36 ET Evertz Technologies Limited TOR 1.16B 15.39 -0.15 pts
-5.93%
37 DND Dye & Durham Limited TOR 46.36M 0.68 -0.21 pts
-8.11%
38 QTRH Quarterhill Inc. TOR 313.04M 2.59 -0.24 pts
-9.44%
39 ADCO Adcore Inc. TOR 7.93M 0.13 -0.27 pts
-10.34%

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

Evidence context