S&P 500 market breadth
118 advancing, 382 declining on Sep 30, 2026, and 40% of eligible members are above their 200-day average. Breadth is mixed — a description of participation, not a signal.
as of market close, Sep 30, 2026 · 500 priced members from the current component roster
S&P 500 stocks above their moving averages#
The share of eligible members trading above their own 20-, 50- and 200-day moving averages. The 20-day line responds quickly; the 200-day line shows the slower underlying participation trend.
S&P 500 advancers vs decliners#
Every bar is one session and sums to the members with a usable return. Green is advancing, red declining and gray unchanged; the final bar is translucent when the current session is still in progress.
New 52-week highs and lows#
Members closing beyond their prior 52-week extreme. Expanding new lows show stress spreading beneath the cap-weighted index; persistent new highs show broad participation.
Breadth by trailing window#
Share of current members with a positive return over each window. The figure at right is the median member return, which reduces the influence of the largest companies.
S&P 500 breadth by sector#
| Sector | 1D | 5D | 1M | 3M | YTD | 1Y | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All stocks | 23% | 25% | 21% | 38% | 54% | 55% | 500 |
| Industrials | 11% | 17% | 20% | 25% | 60% | 59% | 81 |
| Technology | 64% | 39% | 55% | 51% | 68% | 61% | 75 |
| Financials | 13% | 8% | 4% | 45% | 43% | 53% | 75 |
| Healthcare | 12% | 46% | 34% | 75% | 66% | 73% | 59 |
| Consumer Discretionary | 22% | 33% | 18% | 22% | 30% | 38% | 51 |
| Consumer Staples | 13% | 19% | 9% | 25% | 53% | 50% | 32 |
| Utilities | 16% | 31% | 6% | 6% | 25% | 25% | 32 |
| Real Estate | 3% | 7% | 3% | 3% | 50% | 40% | 30 |
| Materials | 13% | 8% | 0% | 38% | 71% | 71% | 24 |
| Energy | 32% | 18% | 27% | 55% | 91% | 91% | 22 |
| Communication Services | 56% | 44% | 17% | 56% | 39% | 28% | 18 |
| Other | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1 |
Cell = % of the group's stocks with a positive return over the window (green > 50% positive, red < 50%).
Methodology#
Universe: the current S&P 500 member set refreshed daily from the public component roster, with secondary share classes removed. Historical readings walk today's membership backward because a complete point-in-time membership archive is not available; this creates survivorship bias and means the chart describes how today's members behaved, not the exact membership on every historical date.
Advances and declines use dividend-adjusted closes so an ex-dividend gap is not treated as a decline. Moving averages and 52-week extremes use split-adjusted closes. A company enters each denominator only after it has enough observations: 20, 50, 200 or 252 sessions. Explore the all-US-stock breadth page, the member performance ranking, or the S&P 500 heatmap.
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FAQ#
- What percentage of S&P 500 stocks are above their 200-day moving average?
- 200 of 498 eligible S&P 500 members (40%) are above their 200-day moving average as of Sep 30, 2026.
- Is S&P 500 market breadth strong or weak right now?
- Breadth is mixed: 40% of eligible members are above their 200-day average and 24% advanced in the latest session. This is a descriptive classification, not a market-timing signal.
- How is this different from the main market-breadth page?
- This page includes only current S&P 500 members derived from SPY's public holdings filing. The main market-breadth page covers every active US stock ChartRow tracks, so small- and mid-cap participation can make its readings differ materially.
- What does a breadth divergence mean?
- A negative divergence occurs when the cap-weighted index rises while fewer members participate — for example, the percentage above the 200-day average or the advance-decline trend falls. It describes a narrowing rally but does not reliably identify an exact market top.
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