Week Ending: 28 August 2026

United Kingdom GB Consumer Cyclical Industry

Internet Retail

For the week ending 28 August 2026, Internet Retail advanced 3.92% with 5 advancing, 0 declining, and 0 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and the constituent tape shows uncapped security returns.

Current architecture Upward Expansion

The activity fan is positively ordered above a rising Trend Line with price accepted above it.

86 technical evidence
Index382.25 1 week3.92% Breadth100% Members5
Country 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · GB
Sector Consumer Cyclical
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 Upward Expansion 8 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance 20.9% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Positive across every horizon
Participation 100% 5 advancing, 0 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 Positioning window open

Trend, participation and relative evidence are sufficiently aligned for selective exposure.

86 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Position
Trend
85
Breadth
78
Persistence
88
Relative
96
Risk quality
84
What supports the view
  • The index remains above a constructive Trend gate.
  • Participation is broad enough to support the index move.
  • Constituent trends show positive multi-horizon persistence.
  • Relative performance is improving within its parent hierarchy.
What restrains conviction
  • Positive contribution is concentrated in a small leadership cohort.

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 Upward Expansion

The activity fan is positively ordered above a rising Trend Line with price accepted above it.

State age8 weeks
Trend gateUp
Fan width10.74%
Fast versus slow change-0.96 pts
Above 83% Below 0%
Six completed weeks of price acceptance relative to the full Activity Line fan.
Index persistence

Positive across every horizon

100% agreement

The 13, 26, 39 and 52-week trends all point upward, giving the advance broad horizon agreement.

13-week
23.6%
26-week
22.9%
39-week
24.2%
52-week
44.6%
Regime age15 weeks 52-week flips7 52-week boundary264.36
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive40%
Coherent negative0%
Average horizon agreement75%
Positive horizon share75%
Weakening positives0
Repairing negatives0

5 constituents measured as of 28 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 13 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

80% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing50%2 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing50%2 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution0%0 securities
Stage 4 · Declining0%0 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch0 Relative strength leaders75% Fair Value repairs2

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

84/100 mean confidence
Upward expansion
50% 2
Rotation up
0% 0
Deceleration
25% 1
Balance
25% 1
Rotation down
0% 0
Downward expansion
0% 0
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 Consumer Cyclical

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

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

Relative index97.5
13-week trend94.2
4-week trend change4.63%
Weekly peer rank2 of 15
1 week
3.0 pts relative
4 weeks
2.5 pts relative
13 weeks
15.0 pts relative
26 weeks
19.5 pts relative
52 weeks
40.0 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Broad
Advancing
5
Declining
0
Unchanged
0
4-week average 55%
13-week average 55%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility32.6%
Drawdown from 52-week high0.0%
Positive weeks, last 1377%
Current directional run1 week
Turnover versus 13-week norm194%
Breadth impulse48.3 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

5 measured
Q1 2.8% Median 4.5% Q3 4.5%
Average winner3.9%
Average loser%
Dispersion1.4 pts
Top-five upside share100%
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 5 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 5 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 ASC ASOS Plc LSE 50.19B 419.00 1.16 pts
5.81%
2 DEBS boohoo group plc LSE 32.56B 0.207 0.91 pts
4.55%
3 G4M Gear4music (Holdings) plc LSE 6.04B 287.50 0.91 pts
4.55%
4 THG THG Plc LSE 54.87B 0.3458 0.56 pts
2.79%
5 SOS Sosandar Plc LSE 2.86B 0.1325 0.38 pts
1.92%

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

Evidence context