Shipbuilding & Railroad Equipment is ranked #29 of 49 industries by 3-month relative strength, with -0.98% excess return vs the S&P 500 over the last 63 trading days. It sits inside the Industrials GICS sector and contains 10 stocks.
As of Aug 24, 2026, the shipbuilding & railroad equipment industry is ranked #29 of 49 by 3-month relative strength versus the S&P 500. It is currently lagging the market, with an excess return of -0.98% over the past 63 trading days.
The 1-month rank is #40, the 6-month rank is #45, and the 1-year rank is #30. 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 10 constituents are ranked by relative strength above. See the full constituents table for per-name RS.
How many stocks are in the Shipbuilding & Railroad Equipment industry?
10 US-listed core stocks (common shares + ADRs) map to the Shipbuilding & Railroad Equipment Fama-French industry as of 2026-08-24.
What GICS sector does Shipbuilding & Railroad Equipment belong to?
Shipbuilding & Railroad Equipment maps to the Industrials 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.
Sharp drop
This group traded 0.7× its typical dollar-volume today and accounted for 0.1% of total market dollar-volume — a read on how much participation is concentrated here right now.
A handful of names carry this industry. Caution: rotation may be more fragile than the rank suggests.
0 of 8 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.
Ship and boat builders and repairers plus railroad-equipment manufacturers — locomotives and rail cars (SIC 3730–3731, 3740–3743).
Shipbuilding & Railroad Equipment 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 →