Week Ending: 4 September 2026

Ireland IE Sector

Financial Services

For the week ending 04 September 2026, Financial Services advanced 3.41% with 3 advancing, 1 declining, and 0 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and built from country-listed equities.

Current architecture Upward Expansion

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

89 technical evidence
Index4930.59 1 week3.41% Breadth75% Members4
Country 🇮🇪 Ireland · IE
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 4 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance 11.7% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Positive across every horizon
Participation 75% 3 advancing, 1 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.

89 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Position
Trend
86
Breadth
76
Persistence
100
Relative
99
Risk quality
94
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
  • The index is extended well above current Fair Value, increasing chase risk.
  • Positive contribution is concentrated in a small leadership cohort.
Independent sentiment overlay Sentiment held separate

Qualified news coverage is too thin to alter the technical positioning view.

Evidence that would change the view
  1. A completed weekly close below the Trend Line at 4,413.19 would weaken the constructive case.
  2. Breadth falling below 45% while the index holds up would signal narrowing leadership.
  3. A turn to negative 13 and 26-week parent-relative performance would remove the rotation edge.

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 age4 weeks
Trend gateUp
Fan width5.53%
Fast versus slow change0.91 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
9.9%
26-week
22.1%
39-week
24.4%
52-week
53.2%
Regime age104 weeks 52-week flips0 52-week boundary3219.03
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive75%
Coherent negative0%
Average horizon agreement81%
Positive horizon share81%
Weakening positives1
Repairing negatives0

4 constituents measured as of 4 Sep 2026. Median trend age is 159 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

100% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing0%0 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing75%3 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution25%1 securities
Stage 4 · Declining0%0 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch0 Relative strength leaders0% Fair Value repairs0

Measured as of 4 Sep 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
75% 3
Rotation up
0% 0
Deceleration
0% 0
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 IE Market Structure

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

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

Relative index138.3
13-week trend134.6
4-week trend change0.43%
Weekly peer rank1 of 2
1 week
1.9 pts relative
4 weeks
3.8 pts relative
13 weeks
3.5 pts relative
26 weeks
7.8 pts relative
52 weeks
24.8 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Broad
Advancing
3
Declining
1
Unchanged
0
4-week average 63%
13-week average 54%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility17.4%
Drawdown from 52-week high0.0%
Positive weeks, last 1362%
Current directional run1 week
Turnover versus 13-week norm191%
Breadth impulse22.9 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

4 measured
Q1 1.1% Median 3.8% Q3 6.0%
Average winner4.7%
Average loser-0.3%
Dispersion2.9 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.

Industry map

Where sector leadership is forming

Performance, breadth and trend acceptance across every qualified industry.

1/1 positive
Above Trend Line1/1100% of industries
Constructive breadth1/1At least half advancing
Median industry4.01%0.00 pts dispersion
#1 Advancing

Banks - Regional

4.01%
Participation67% vs Trend11.1% vs Fair Value70.6% Members3

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 4 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Leading edge

1 BIRGBank of Ireland Group plc
6.45% 2 A5GAIB Group plc
5.91% 3 EG7FBD Holdings plc
1.61% 4 PTSBPermanent TSB Group Holdings plc
-0.34%

Weakest edge

4 PTSBPermanent TSB Group Holdings plc
-0.34% 3 EG7FBD Holdings plc
1.61% 2 A5GAIB Group plc
5.91% 1 BIRGBank of Ireland Group plc
6.45%

Constituent ledger

Sector constituents

All 4 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 BIRG Bank of Ireland Group plc ISE 18.45B 19.98 1.61 pts
6.45%
2 A5G AIB Group plc ISE 23.30B 11.46 1.48 pts
5.91%
3 EG7 FBD Holdings plc ISE 675.81M 18.90 0.40 pts
1.61%
4 PTSB Permanent TSB Group Holdings plc ISE 1.60B 2.94 -0.08 pts
-0.34%

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

Evidence context