Visualizing the Growth and Composition of S&P 500
Introduction
What is the S&P 500?
The S&P 500 is a stock market index which tracks the performance of 500 large-cap stocks of US publicly traded companies. The market capitalisation here refers to the total value of all the shares issued by the company. Some examples of the companies in the S&P 500 include Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook.
Many people use the S&P 500 as an indicator of how well the market is doing. Recently, the S&P 500 entered a bear market after seeing the largest decline since Black Monday.
The Aim of the Viz
In this visualization, we will be looking at the growth of the S&P 500 over the years and what exactly comprises the S&P 500 in terms of composition of various stocks and sectors.
We will use Tableau to make the visualizations and will attempt to answer the following queries:
- How did the S&P 500 perform over the past years?
- Which companies in the S&P 500 have the highest market capitalisation?
- Which sectors does the S&P 500 primarily constitute of and how much do they represent as a whole?
What are we Creating?
Here’s a sneak peak at what we will achieve at the end of this Tableau tutorial.
