How does the size of the S&P 500 (Index: SPX) compare with the biggest publicly traded companies in the world?
We've answered the question visually with the following image that combines two of Finviz' treemaps: one for the S&P 500 and the other for the World (minus U.S. stocks):
In this visualization, the S&P 500 is presented 'full size', while the World has been scaled 70% in the horizontal direction and 60% in the vertical from Finviz' full-size images. That scaling is roughly based on the relative areas of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (Taiwan: TSM), which is the largest company in the world outside of the United States, and Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) as Finviz presented in their combined treemap of the world's largest stocks according to their market capitalization. According to that visualization, TSM is about 8-9% bigger in area than AVGO, which we've replicated in our scaled version of Finviz' World map.
It's an interesting way to compare the size of the biggest U.S. firms with the entire stock markets of other regions. It's one thing to know that stocks like Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) each have a bigger market cap than the entire Canadian stock market, for example, but it's quite another to see that comparison as we've shown it.
Labels: data visualization, stock market
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