Week Ending: 18 September 2026

Malaysia MY Technology Industry

Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

For the week ending 18 September 2026, Semiconductor Equipment & Materials declined 1.92% with 3 advancing, 9 declining, and 2 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and the constituent tape shows uncapped security returns.

Current architecture Deceleration

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

67 technical evidence
Index1541.47 1 week-1.92% Breadth21% Members14
Country ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ Malaysia ยท MY
Sector Technology
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 1 completed week in this state
Trend acceptance 15.7% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Positive across every horizon
Participation 21% 3 advancing, 9 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 Wait for re-acceleration

Headline strength is not yet confirmed by the current Activity Line energy and constituent trend mix.

67 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Wait
Trend
90
Breadth
35
Persistence
74
Relative
60
Risk quality
79
What supports the view
  • The index remains above a constructive Trend gate.
  • Constituent trends show positive multi-horizon persistence.
  • Relative performance is improving within its parent hierarchy.
What restrains conviction
  • Breadth remains too narrow or inconsistent for a high-conviction position.
  • Activity Line energy is decelerating despite the positive Trend gate.
  • 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 Deceleration

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

State age1 weeks
Trend gateUp
Fan width8.20%
Fast versus slow change-2.71 pts
Above 50% 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
14.9%
26-week
46.5%
39-week
33.7%
52-week
14.1%
Regime age20 weeks 52-week flips3 52-week boundary1350.81
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive50%
Coherent negative7%
Average horizon agreement80%
Positive horizon share71%
Weakening positives1
Repairing negatives3

14 constituents measured as of 18 Sep 2026. Median trend age is 28 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

93% coverage
Stage 1 ยท Basing31%4 securities
Stage 2 ยท Advancing54%7 securities
Stage 3 ยท Distribution0%0 securities
Stage 4 ยท Declining15%2 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch1 Relative strength leaders46% Fair Value repairs4

Measured as of 18 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
54% 7
Rotation up
8% 1
Deceleration
15% 2
Balance
23% 3
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 Technology

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

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

Relative index110.5
13-week trend107.1
4-week trend change3.19%
Weekly peer rank9 of 11
1 week
-1.1 pts relative
4 weeks
0.9 pts relative
13 weeks
11.7 pts relative
26 weeks
33.6 pts relative
52 weeks
17.1 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Narrow
Advancing
3
Declining
9
Unchanged
2
4-week average 39%
13-week average 48%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility28.0%
Drawdown from 52-week high-8.6%
Positive weeks, last 1362%
Current directional run1 week
Turnover versus 13-week norm184%
Breadth impulse-29.2 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

14 measured
Q1 -3.9% Median -1.7% Q3 0.0%
Average winner2.8%
Average loser-3.9%
Dispersion4.0 pts
Top-five upside share100%
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 14 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 14 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 0097 ViTrox Corporation Berhad KLS 18.55B 9.80 0.51 pts
7.10%
2 0146 JF Technology Berhad KLS 636.11M 0.66 0.05 pts
0.76%
3 5340 UMS Integration Limited KLS 7.44B 8.35 0.04 pts
0.60%
4 0090 Elsoft Research Berhad KLS 175.76M 0.26 0.00 pts
0.00%
5 0113 MMS Ventures Berhad KLS 55.95M 0.285 0.00 pts
0.00%
6 0166 Inari Amertron Berhad KLS 10.18B 2.64 -0.02 pts
-0.21%
7 5277 FoundPac Group Berhad KLS 212.42M 0.39 -0.09 pts
-1.27%
8 5286 Mi Technovation Berhad KLS 5.00B 5.65 -0.15 pts
-2.08%
9 7204 D & O Green Technologies Berhad KLS 557.77M 0.46 -0.15 pts
-2.13%
10 0120 Visdynamics Holdings Berhad KLS 96.97M 0.38 -0.18 pts
-2.56%
11 5302 Aurelius Technologies Berhad KLS 995.02M 0.76 -0.31 pts
-4.33%
12 4359 Turiya Berhad KLS 43.46M 0.19 -0.36 pts
-5.00%
13 0272 TT Vision Holdings Berhad KLS 112.71M 0.235 -0.56 pts
-7.84%
14 0181 Aemulus Holdings Berhad KLS 245.50M 0.365 -0.71 pts
-9.88%

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

Evidence context