Banking is ranked #21 of 49 industries by 3-month relative strength, with -3.64% excess return vs the S&P 500 over the last 63 trading days. It sits inside the Financials GICS sector and contains 431 stocks.
Climbing
A handful of names carry this industry. Caution: rotation may be more fragile than the rank suggests.
Insufficient bar history to compute breadth for this industry.
Banking is one of 49 industries in the Fama-French taxonomy. SIC code-based classification published monthly by Ken French at Dartmouth. The FF49 groupings are intentionally coarser than GICS or SIC alone — useful for market-rotation reads, less useful for fine-grained screening.
As of May 21, 2026, the banking industry is ranked #21 of 49by 3-month relative strength versus the S&P 500. It is currently lagging the market, with an excess return of -3.64% over the past 63 trading days.
The 1-month rank is #21, the 6-month rank is #26, and the 1-year rank is #0. Compare these to spot a rotation: a falling 6M rank with a rising 1M rank tells you the industry is turning — money is starting to come back.
The 431 constituents are ranked by relative strength above. See the full constituents table for per-name RS.
How many stocks are in this industry?
431 core-list common stocks and ADRs. We include only names with enough trading history to compute relative strength.
What GICS sector is this in?
Financials. FF49 and GICS are different taxonomies; the mapping is a rough one-to-many — see the siblings card for other FF49 industries in the same GICS sector.
How is the RS number computed?
We take the constituent log-returns over the lookback window, subtract SPY's log-return over the same window, and aggregate on a market-cap-weighted basis. The result is “excess return vs the market.”
FF49 is intentionally coarse — useful for rotation reads, less useful for fine-grained screening. Read the methodology →