Shipping Containers is ranked #5 of 49 industries by 3-month relative strength, with +14.06% excess return vs the S&P 500 over the last 63 trading days. It sits inside the Materials GICS sector and contains 13 stocks.
Stable position
This group traded 0.9× 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.
Leadership is partly concentrated. Watch top names but check second-tier setups.
0 of 11 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.
Shipping and packaging containers — wood pallets and boxes, paperboard containers, glass containers, and metal cans and shipping drums (SIC 2440–2449, 2640–2659, 3220–3221, 3410–3412).
Shipping Containers 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 shipping containers industry is ranked #5 of 49 by 3-month relative strength versus the S&P 500. It is currently outperforming the market, with an excess return of +14.06% over the past 63 trading days.
The 1-month rank is #27, the 6-month rank is #23, and the 1-year rank is #18. 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 13 constituents are ranked by relative strength above. See the full constituents table for per-name RS.
How many stocks are in the Shipping Containers industry?
13 US-listed core stocks (common shares + ADRs) map to the Shipping Containers Fama-French industry as of 2026-08-24.
What GICS sector does Shipping Containers belong to?
Shipping Containers maps to the Materials 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.