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Wheat vs the S&P 500 (WEAT): is it outperforming?

Over the past month, WEAT has outperformed the S&P 500 by 6.7 points. Here is where that puts it in the market rotation — updated daily.

1M spread vs SPY
+6.7 pts
Quadrant
Outperformers
Momentum
Strong
RS health
Strong
Holdings P/E

Where WEAT sits on the rotation map

Wheat highlighted against the 11 broad S&P 500 sectors. Vertical: 1-month spread vs the S&P 500. Horizontal: the longer, time-shifted window — the methodology explains the math.

WEAT vs SPY: head-to-head returns

WEAT (wheat) and SPY (the S&P 500) side by side over every window Zensei tracks. The spread is the difference — positive means WEAT won that window.

Window
WEAT
SPY
Spread
1 week+7.2%+1.1%+6.1 pts
2 weeks+11.7%−0.2%+11.9 pts
1 month+11.0%+4.3%+6.7 pts
3 months+14.2%+2.4%+11.8 pts
6 months+20.6%+13.0%+7.6 pts
1 year+29.0%+20.6%+8.4 pts

Data as of 2026-08-27 · computed from daily adjusted closes · how we measure

The read

Wheat (WEAT) sits in the Outperformers quadrant of the rotation map: it has decisively beaten the S&P 500 by 6.7 points over the past month, on top of a 4.7-point advantage over the longer, time-shifted window. Ranked by one-month spread, it currently stands #24 of the 115 groups Zensei tracks.

On the shorter tape, WEAT's momentum reads strong: the recent hourly trend is positive across every lookback Zensei measures. WEAT's relative-strength line — its price ratio against the S&P 500 — is trading above its moving averages, the healthiest configuration we track. The two signals agree — the short-term tape and the longer trend point the same way.

The thing to watch from here is durability: outperformers that hold their one-month spread while the longer window keeps building tend to stay out front; a fading spread is the early exit signal.

What's inside WEAT

Top 1 of 1 tracked holdings, by portfolio weight.

Holding
Weight
1M
FGTXXGOLDMAN SACHS FS GOVERNMENT INSTL
36.0%+0.3%

Wheat vs the market — common questions

Is wheat outperforming the S&P 500?

Right now, yes: over the past month WEAT has outperformed the S&P 500 by 6.7 points. This page updates daily, so the answer reflects current market data rather than a dated article.

What is WEAT?

WEAT is Teucrium Wheat Fund, the fund Zensei uses to measure the wheat group against the S&P 500 benchmark (SPY).

What quadrant is wheat in right now?

As of the latest daily data, wheat is in the Outperformers quadrant — outperforming the S&P 500 on both the recent and the longer, time-shifted window. The quadrant rules are documented on the Zensei methodology page.

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