Week Ending: 28 August 2026

Japan JP Basic Materials Industry

Other Industrial Metals & Mining

For the week ending 28 August 2026, Other Industrial Metals & Mining advanced 4.05% with 9 advancing, 2 declining, and 0 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.

75 technical evidence
Index2957.49 1 week4.05% Breadth82% Members11
Country 🇯🇵 Japan · JP
Sector Basic Materials
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 4 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance 11.4% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 75% Positive regime, horizons divided
Participation 82% 9 advancing, 2 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 Build exposure selectively

The evidence is constructive, but security selection and entry discipline still matter.

75 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Selective
Trend
64
Breadth
68
Persistence
82
Relative
100
Risk quality
70
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.

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 age4 weeks
Trend gateMixed
Fan width9.03%
Fast versus slow change12.24 pts
Above 67% Below 0%
Six completed weeks of price acceptance relative to the full Activity Line fan.
Index persistence

Positive regime, horizons divided

75% agreement

The 52-week trend is positive, although not every measured horizon confirms it.

13-week
16.1%
26-week
-11.3%
39-week
47.6%
52-week
82.4%
Regime age58 weeks 52-week flips0 52-week boundary1621.10
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive18%
Coherent negative0%
Average horizon agreement77%
Positive horizon share77%
Weakening positives1
Repairing negatives0

11 constituents measured as of 28 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 57 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

100% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing18%2 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing55%6 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution9%1 securities
Stage 4 · Declining18%2 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch2 Relative strength leaders36% Fair Value repairs0

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

72/100 mean confidence
Upward expansion
18% 2
Rotation up
36% 4
Deceleration
0% 0
Balance
9% 1
Rotation down
0% 0
Downward expansion
36% 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 Basic Materials

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

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

Relative index119.7
13-week trend105.7
4-week trend change0.06%
Weekly peer rank1 of 9
1 week
2.9 pts relative
4 weeks
17.8 pts relative
13 weeks
10.8 pts relative
26 weeks
-11.5 pts relative
52 weeks
50.0 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Broad
Advancing
9
Declining
2
Unchanged
0
4-week average 77%
13-week average 55%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility36.2%
Drawdown from 52-week high-11.3%
Positive weeks, last 1362%
Current directional run6 weeks
Turnover versus 13-week norm304%
Breadth impulse29.5 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

11 measured
Q1 2.3% Median 2.9% Q3 7.2%
Average winner6.0%
Average loser-4.7%
Dispersion6.1 pts
Top-five upside share81%
Top-five capital share95%
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 11 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 11 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 5724 Asaka Riken Co.,Ltd. JPX 16.74B 3,325.00 1.58 pts
17.33%
2 5711 Mitsubishi Materials Corporation JPX 791.64B 6,058.00 0.81 pts
8.86%
3 5715 Furukawa Co.,Ltd. JPX 144.64B 4,460.00 0.66 pts
7.21%
4 5713 Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. JPX 3.09T 11,525.00 0.65 pts
7.11%
5 5707 Toho Zinc Co., Ltd. JPX 45.05B 1,182.00 0.29 pts
3.23%
6 3036 ALCONIX Corporation JPX 104.61B 3,530.00 0.27 pts
2.92%
7 5714 Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd. JPX 614.85B 10,395.00 0.25 pts
2.72%
8 5541 Pacific Metals Co., Ltd. JPX 46.81B 2,692.00 0.24 pts
2.63%
9 3168 MERF Inc. JPX 20.54B 1,450.00 0.18 pts
1.96%
10 3023 Rasa Corporation JPX 21.98B 2,082.00 -0.09 pts
-1.00%
11 5726 OSAKA Titanium technologies Co.,Ltd. JPX 98.58B 2,679.00 -0.76 pts
-8.38%

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

Evidence context