Insurance is ranked #14 of 49 industries by 3-month relative strength, with +6.05% excess return vs the S&P 500 over the last 63 trading days. It sits inside the Financials GICS sector and contains 138 stocks.
Strong climber
This group traded 1.0× its typical dollar-volume today and accounted for 2.3% of total market dollar-volume — a read on how much participation is concentrated here right now.
Strength is spread across many constituents. Healthier rotation; setups likely available beyond the obvious names.
36 of 113 constituents are within 2% of a 52-week high.
A wide move (most names above their MAs) is healthier than a narrow one led by a handful of mega-caps.
Insurance carriers and agents — life, health, property and casualty, surety, and title insurers plus insurance agents and brokers (SIC 6300–6411).
Insurance 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.
FF49 is intentionally coarse — useful for rotation reads, less useful for fine-grained screening. Read the methodology →
As of Jul 6, 2026, the insurance industry is ranked #14 of 49by 3-month relative strength versus the S&P 500. It is currently outperforming the market, with an excess return of +6.05% over the past 63 trading days.
The 1-month rank is #4, the 6-month rank is #39, and the 1-year rank is #34. 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 138 constituents are ranked by relative strength above. See the full constituents table for per-name RS.
How many stocks are in the Insurance industry?
138 US-listed core stocks (common shares + ADRs) map to the Insurance Fama-French industry as of 2026-07-06.
What GICS sector does Insurance belong to?
Insurance maps to the Financials GICS sector.
How is relative strength computed?
Each constituent’s excess log-return versus the S&P 500 over the window, aggregated market-cap-weighted across the industry. Industries above zero are outpacing the broad market; below zero are lagging.