Week Ending: 11 September 2026

United Kingdom GB Industrials Industry

Specialty Industrial Machinery

For the week ending 11 September 2026, Specialty Industrial Machinery declined 2.97% with 2 advancing, 13 declining, and 4 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and the constituent tape shows uncapped security returns.

Current architecture Balance

Directional pressure is compressed and neither side has durable control.

41 technical evidence
Index532.59 1 week-2.97% Breadth11% Members19
Country 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · GB
Sector Industrials
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 Balance 4 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance -3.0% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Negative across every horizon
Participation 11% 2 advancing, 13 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 Reduce exposure into strength

Counter-trend rallies may occur, but primary structure and persistence do not yet support adding risk.

41 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Reduce
Trend
38
Breadth
26
Persistence
66
Relative
12
Risk quality
78
What supports the view
  • Constituent trends show positive multi-horizon persistence.
What restrains conviction
  • Index trend architecture has not delivered a durable upward expansion.
  • Breadth remains too narrow or inconsistent for a high-conviction position.
  • The group is not yet delivering dependable relative outperformance.
  • 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 Balance

Directional pressure is compressed and neither side has durable control.

State age4 weeks
Trend gateMixed
Fan width0.39%
Fast versus slow change-0.19 pts
Above 50% 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
0.0%
26-week
-2.3%
39-week
-9.3%
52-week
-10.3%
Regime age15 weeks 52-week flips1 52-week boundary593.91
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive37%
Coherent negative11%
Average horizon agreement82%
Positive horizon share58%
Weakening positives4
Repairing negatives2

19 constituents measured as of 11 Sep 2026. Median trend age is 23 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

100% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing11%2 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing42%8 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution11%2 securities
Stage 4 · Declining37%7 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch1 Relative strength leaders32% Fair Value repairs1

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

77/100 mean confidence
Upward expansion
37% 7
Rotation up
11% 2
Deceleration
16% 3
Balance
16% 3
Rotation down
0% 0
Downward expansion
21% 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 Industrials

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

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

Relative index63.0
13-week trend65.1
4-week trend change-0.94%
Weekly peer rank14 of 15
1 week
-2.3 pts relative
4 weeks
-2.5 pts relative
13 weeks
-3.2 pts relative
26 weeks
-8.3 pts relative
52 weeks
-13.7 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Narrow
Advancing
2
Declining
13
Unchanged
4
4-week average 28%
13-week average 41%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility19.3%
Drawdown from 52-week high-17.4%
Positive weeks, last 1354%
Current directional run3 weeks
Turnover versus 13-week norm122%
Breadth impulse-33.3 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

19 measured
Q1 -1.8% Median -0.9% Q3 0.0%
Average winner1.0%
Average loser-4.5%
Dispersion5.9 pts
Top-five upside share100%
Top-five capital share79%
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.

1 qualified records across 19 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 19 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 MPAC Mpac Group plc LSE 10.68B 355.00 0.08 pts
1.43%
2 ITM ITM Power Plc LSE 71.09B 103.00 0.03 pts
0.59%
3 FORG Forgent plc LSE 355.33M 0.00008 0.00 pts
0.00%
4 ROR Rotork plc LSE 394.35B 484.20 0.00 pts
0.00%
5 SNT Sabien Technology Group Plc LSE 111.04M 0.0375 0.00 pts
0.00%
6 SVNS Solvonis Therapeutics plc LSE 868.97M 0.00115 0.00 pts
0.00%
7 WEIR The Weir Group PLC LSE 674.99B 2,722.00 0.00 pts
-0.07%
8 IMI IMI plc LSE 716.15B 3,036.00 -0.01 pts
-0.26%
9 SMIN Smiths Group plc LSE 721.85B 2,547.00 -0.04 pts
-0.78%
10 BOY Bodycote plc LSE 159.17B 940.00 -0.05 pts
-0.90%
11 MGAM Morgan Advanced Materials plc LSE 67.31B 243.50 -0.07 pts
-1.42%
12 SPX Spirax Group plc LSE 497.02B 6,855.00 -0.08 pts
-1.51%
13 CGS Castings P.L.C. LSE 12.91B 297.00 -0.09 pts
-1.66%
14 AVG Avingtrans plc LSE 26.78B 725.00 -0.09 pts
-1.76%
15 CPH2 Clean Power Hydrogen plc LSE 889.53M 0.1325 -0.10 pts
-1.85%
16 MRO Melrose Industries PLC LSE 593.14B 476.00 -0.29 pts
-5.52%
17 PHE PowerHouse Energy Group Plc LSE 1.01B 0.00195 -0.38 pts
-7.14%
18 XSG Xeros Technology Group plc LSE 1.06B 0.0122 -0.57 pts
-10.91%
19 GDWN Goodwin PLC LSE 115.24B 15,100.00 -1.30 pts
-24.69%

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

Evidence context