Daily Report – 2026-09-14


S&P 500 Report

Top 10 Contributors


S&P 500: 7619.98 | 📉 Down (-0.57%)

Market Structure Score


56/100

Fragile Structure
Participation and confirmation have weakened, increasing the risk of unstable price action.

🔁 Regime shift: Strong but Concentrated → Neutral
Market Summary
Executive Summary

Internal activity reflected active sector rotation rather than a decisive directional trend, with capital continuing to migrate between market leadership groups. Internal confirmation remains limited, reducing confidence in the durability of the current market character.

Market Character

The internal backdrop remains balanced, with improving conditions offset by pockets of continued weakness. The Market Structure Score of 56/100 reflects low confidence in this assessment.

Participation

280 of 502 stocks advanced (▲55.8%)
216 stocks declined (▼43.0%)
6 stocks unchanged
Participation quality weakened.
Leadership continued to rotate.

Overall, participation was mixed, reinforcing the weakness in today’s price action.

Leadership

Leadership continued to rotate across sectors, indicating capital was being reallocated rather than concentrated in a single leadership group. However, weakening participation reduces confidence that the rotation represents a durable bullish signal.

Risk Assessment

Rapid leadership rotation suggests institutional conviction remains fluid. Breadth continues to lag headline index performance. Participation has weakened across the broader market. Decliners continue to outnumber advancers. Should these conditions deteriorate further, confidence in the current market assessment would likely weaken.

Outlook

Meaningful improvement in participation and internal confirmation will be needed before confidence can recover. Failure to improve would leave the market vulnerable to additional weakness.

Bottom Line

The weight of the internal evidence continues to support an orderly sector rotation market environment with low confidence. While short-term price fluctuations are inevitable, sustained improvement in participation and leadership would reinforce the current assessment, whereas renewed deterioration in market internals would warrant a more defensive interpretation.

Market Signals

▶ ✅ Leadership was broadly distributed across the market.

▶ ⚠️ Elevated dispersion reflects increasingly uneven market behavior.

▶ 💪 Individual stock moves carried above-average conviction.

▶ ✅ Participation exceeded capitalization leadership.

▶ 📉 Declining stocks showed greater magnitude than advancing stocks.

▶ ⚠️ A small group of larger losers weighed disproportionately on returns.

Top Contributors (>0.01%)

Ticker Return Contribution Share Impact_Efficiency Rank
GOOGL 3.14% 0.19% 7.68% 0.060468 1
MSFT 1.97% 0.10% 3.89% 0.048795 2
META 2.71% 0.06% 2.31% 0.021070 3
PANW 13.09% 0.05% 1.83% 0.003462 4
CRWD 13.85% 0.04% 1.56% 0.002783 5
LLY 2.02% 0.03% 1.12% 0.013687 6
NFLX 3.77% 0.02% 0.81% 0.005287 7
PLTR 3.64% 0.02% 0.73% 0.004972 8
AAPL 0.24% 0.02% 0.69% 0.070144 9
WMT 1.80% 0.01% 0.58% 0.007925 10
NOW 7.41% 0.01% 0.57% 0.001918 11
FTNT 9.04% 0.01% 0.53% 0.001451 12
CRM 4.73% 0.01% 0.52% 0.002716 13
BRK-B 0.90% 0.01% 0.49% 0.013472 14
ABBV 1.81% 0.01% 0.45% 0.006104 15
V 1.30% 0.01% 0.44% 0.008265 16
COST 1.56% 0.01% 0.42% 0.006624 17
IBM 2.38% 0.01% 0.42% 0.004332 18
ACN 6.04% 0.01% 0.41% 0.001690 19

Definitions:

Contribution – The weighted impact of a stock’s return on the overall index move
(weight × return). This reflects how much each stock actually moved the index.

Share – The proportion of total index movement attributable to a given stock.
Higher values indicate outsized influence relative to peers.

Impact Efficiency – The ratio of contribution to return, highlighting how effectively
a stock’s price move translates into index impact (primarily driven by index weight).


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