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Petroleum & Natural Gas is ranked #30 of 49 industries by 3-month relative strength, with -1.26% excess return vs the S&P 500 over the last 63 trading days. It sits inside the Energy GICS sector and contains 135 stocks.
Strong climber
This group traded 0.9× its typical dollar-volume today and accounted for 2.5% 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.
7 of 104 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.
Oil and gas extraction and refining — crude petroleum and natural-gas operators, drilling and oilfield services, and petroleum refining (SIC 1300–1389, 2900–2999).
Petroleum & Natural Gas 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 Aug 24, 2026, the petroleum & natural gas industry is ranked #30 of 49 by 3-month relative strength versus the S&P 500. It is currently lagging the market, with an excess return of -1.26% over the past 63 trading days.
The 1-month rank is #18, the 6-month rank is #10, and the 1-year rank is #5. 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 135 constituents are ranked by relative strength above. See the full constituents table for per-name RS.
How many stocks are in the Petroleum & Natural Gas industry?
135 US-listed core stocks (common shares + ADRs) map to the Petroleum & Natural Gas Fama-French industry as of 2026-08-24.
What GICS sector does Petroleum & Natural Gas belong to?
Petroleum & Natural Gas maps to the Energy 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.