Artive Commerce Indexes
ACI Needs
Grocers, the brands on their shelves and pharmacies: what households buy whatever the month looks like.
R175.15Today -0.37%
- 1 month
- +0.6%
- Year to date
- -14.5%
- 1 year
- -12.1%
- Members
- 15
- Largest weight
- SHP 24.0%
Needs vs Top 40How it compares.
Needs -12.1% · Top 40 -2.9% · -9.2 pts
ComponentsWhat’s in it.
Every member, its weight today and its move over the period you picked. Weights are reset each quarter and drift with prices in between.
| Share | Weight | Price | Period move |
|---|---|---|---|
 Shoprite SHPGrocers | 24.00% | R321.00 | +15.0% |
 Clicks CLSHealth & beauty | 14.73% | R209.38 | -40.2% |
 Boxer BOXGrocers | 11.16% | R80.32 | +13.8% |
 Tiger Brands TBSOn the shelf | 11.15% | R251.26 | -20.7% |
 AVI AVIOn the shelf | 8.51% | R84.00 | -13.9% |
| Premier PMROn the shelf | 8.25% | R165.00 | +10.0% |
 Dis-Chem DCPHealth & beauty | 6.89% | R26.49 | -17.6% |
 Pick n Pay PIKGrocers | 4.28% | R19.19 | -24.8% |
 SPAR SPPGrocers | 2.66% | R45.54 | -55.5% |
 Oceana OCEOn the shelf | 2.33% | R63.95 | +27.3% |
 Astral Foods ARLOn the shelf | 2.14% | R182.18 | -11.9% |
 RCL Foods RCLOn the shelf | 1.87% | R6.85 | -26.3% |
 Sea Harvest SHGOn the shelf | 0.86% | R8.59 | +1.2% |
 Libstar LBROn the shelf | 0.67% | R3.75 | -22.4% |
 Quantum Foods QFHOn the shelf | 0.49% | R7.99 | +9.3% |
By segment
- Grocers42.1%
- On the shelf36.3%
- Health & beauty21.6%
What moves itThe numbers to watch.
Coming up for its members
- Wed, 07 OctSea Harvest goes ex-dividend
- Mon, 12 OctBoxer results
- Wed, 14 OctAVI goes ex-dividend
- Wed, 14 OctRCL Foods goes ex-dividend
- Thu, 22 OctClicks results
- Mon, 26 OctPick n Pay results
- Fri, 30 OctDis-Chem results
- Thu, 19 NovSPAR results
Its members in the news
- 7 hours agoOwner of Snowflake, Blue Ribbon, and Rhodes in South Africa responds to serious allegations BusinessTech
- 10 hours agoLocal hard seltzer brand Nawty Water hits Pick n Pay shelves Bizcommunity
- 12 hours agoWatchdog accuses Premier of hiding Tulbagh closure plans, wants RFG deal scrapped News24
- 13 hours agoShutdown of 72-year-old factory in South Africa could blow up R6.5 billion merger BusinessTech
- 03 OctSouth Africans turning away from Shoprite, Checkers, Pick n Pay, and Spar BusinessTech
- 02 OctGauteng to push more money into battle against GBVF, Lesufi announces News24
MethodologyHow it’s built.
Who is in it
Grocers, food and household brands and pharmacies, without Choppies, AB InBev and British American Tobacco.
- Weighted by market value: bigger companies count for more, but no single company can be more than 24% of an index.
- In indexes of 25 or more shares, if the companies above 4.5% together come to more than 48%, they are cut back to 40% so a handful of giants can’t run the index.
- ACI 50 holds the 50 largest shares on our list by market value; ACI 25 the mid caps, ranked 26 to 50. Both re-rank the whole list at every quarterly reset, so shares move in and out as they grow or shrink. The index changes page lists every move.
- Weights are reset every quarter, after the third Friday of March, June, September and December, and drift with prices in between. Price only; dividends are not added back.
- Past market values use today’s number of shares in issue.
- Quoted in rand: each index’s level today is the weighted average share price of its members at today’s weights, and its history follows the index’s moves back from there. The Top 40 line is scaled to start at the same level so the two compare.
- A share listed during the period joins from its first trading day. A one-day move of more than 35% is treated as a bad print in the source data and ignored.
- Built from delayed closing prices from Yahoo Finance. The 5Y view uses weekly closes.
Artive Capital doesn’t raise outside capital; it only trades and invests Artive’s own, and has no clients. This is a screen we use to decide where to look, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Prices are delayed and third-party data can be wrong; check with your broker before you act.
The other indexes
- ACI 50The 50 largest shares on our commerce list by market value.
- ACI 25The shares ranked 26 to 50 on our commerce list by market value: the 25 that sit below the 25 largest.
- ACI ShopperGrocers, fashion, health and beauty, home and build, eating out and going out, without Choppies (run from Botswana) and Richemont (a Swiss luxury group).
- ACI WantsFashion, eating out, hotels and casinos, home and build and car dealers, without Richemont.
- ACI FintechSouth African banking, payments and investing businesses on our list.
- ACI Real EstateThe shopping-centre and logistics landlords on our list.
- ACI HospitalityThe hotel, casino and restaurant groups on our list: Sun International, Tsogo Sun, Southern Sun, City Lodge, Famous Brands and Spur.
- ACI Rate SensitiveCredit retailers, furniture, building, car dealers and shopping-centre landlords: the shares most exposed to interest rates.
- ACI DigitalPlatforms, payments, fleet software and telecoms networks.
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