Chart sizes S&P 500 firms by market cap and staff
Original title: Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
Bubble density shows employees per dollar of market cap, using full-time counts from each firm's latest annual report.
A Show HN page draws S&P 500 companies as bubbles whose area matches market capitalization, grouped by sector, with stick figures for employees. Denser bubbles mean more staff per dollar of market value. It includes companies above unnamed employee and market-cap cutoffs, plus a few smaller-staff firms such as Palantir and Welltower shown with a half-size figure. Counts come from the latest annual reports and can lag up to a year.
Unconfirmed: The posted thresholds for employees and market cap are blank in the text.
- Every stick figure is the same size except named exceptions.
- Palantir and Welltower are drawn as one half-size figure.
- Users can click a company and zoom in on smaller bubbles.
From the original article
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Each bubble is an S&P 500 company, its area proportional to its market capitalization Inside it, one stick figure stands for employees, so a bubble crowded with small figures is worth little per worker and a big bubble with a handful of figures is worth a lot.
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