Week Ending: 14 August 2026

Taiwan TW Healthcare Industry

Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic

For the week ending 14 August 2026, Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic advanced 0.48% with 5 advancing, 8 declining, and 0 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.

52 technical evidence
Index2097.19 1 week0.48% Breadth38% Members13
Country 🇹🇼 Taiwan · TW
Sector Healthcare
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 0.9% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 75% Positive regime, horizons divided
Participation 38% 5 advancing, 8 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 Hold and wait for confirmation

The evidence is balanced enough to avoid a defensive call, but not aligned enough for aggressive positioning.

52 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Wait
Trend
51
Breadth
43
Persistence
39
Relative
59
Risk quality
91
What supports the view
  • Relative performance is improving within its parent hierarchy.
What restrains conviction
  • Index trend architecture has not delivered a durable upward expansion.
  • Breadth remains too narrow or inconsistent for a high-conviction position.
  • Constituent persistence remains divided or predominantly negative.
  • 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 width0.63%
Fast versus slow change-0.99 pts
Above 50% Below 17%
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
6.2%
26-week
-0.9%
39-week
6.3%
52-week
7.1%
Regime age11 weeks 52-week flips7 52-week boundary1957.97
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive23%
Coherent negative38%
Average horizon agreement83%
Positive horizon share44%
Weakening positives2
Repairing negatives3

13 constituents measured as of 14 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 28 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

Stage Analysis coverage is still building.

Capital rotation

Performance relative to Healthcare

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

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

Relative index103.6
13-week trend102.7
4-week trend change0.77%
Weekly peer rank3 of 5
1 week
0.2 pts relative
4 weeks
1.4 pts relative
13 weeks
3.2 pts relative
26 weeks
3.8 pts relative
52 weeks
6.4 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

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

Breadth

Participation quality

Narrow
Advancing
5
Declining
8
Unchanged
0
4-week average 42%
13-week average 47%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility15.5%
Drawdown from 52-week high-3.5%
Positive weeks, last 1354%
Current directional run2 weeks
Turnover versus 13-week norm93%
Breadth impulse-9.0 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

13 measured
Q1 -2.4% Median -0.8% Q3 0.9%
Average winner5.2%
Average loser-2.5%
Dispersion6.3 pts
Top-five upside share100%
Top-five capital share94%
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 13 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 13 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 6446 PharmaEssentia Corporation TAI 619.67B 1500.00 1.61 pts
20.97%
2 4119 SCI Pharmtech, Inc. TAI 6.33B 53.00 0.21 pts
2.71%
3 3705 YungShin Global Holding Corporation TAI 14.46B 54.30 0.12 pts
1.50%
4 4108 PhytoHealth Corporation TAI 2.23B 11.25 0.07 pts
0.90%
5 1707 Grape King Bio Ltd TAI 13.23B 89.30 0.01 pts
0.11%
6 1731 MAYWUFA CO TAI 2.78B 20.95 -0.05 pts
-0.71%
7 1760 Panion & Bf Biotech Inc. TAI 5.02B 58.60 -0.07 pts
-0.85%
8 1720 Standard Chemical & Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. TAI 10.99B 55.90 -0.15 pts
-1.93%
9 6472 Bora Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. TAI 52.06B 409.00 -0.16 pts
-2.04%
10 1789 ScinoPharm Taiwan, Ltd. TAI 14.59B 18.45 -0.18 pts
-2.38%
11 3054 LIWANLI Innovation Co., Ltd. TAI 3.92B 48.55 -0.25 pts
-3.29%
12 1795 Lotus Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. TAI 47.44B 180.50 -0.31 pts
-3.99%
13 4746 Formosa Laboratories, Inc. TAI 6.18B 51.40 -0.37 pts
-4.81%

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

Evidence context