Observation: The economy is basically being carried by a few tech companies including Nvidia and Tesla.

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 The economy is basically being carried by a few tech companies including Nvidia and Tesla.

Being in a finance sub, most of you would know that the companies in the S&P500 (top 500 companies) and other indexes, are not equally weighted, bigger companies make up a bigger percentage of the index.

I made a graph to help visualize this point, data was imported from slickcharts today 4/1/25.

It's essentially being "carried" by only a few technology companies. Including Nvidia (NVDA) in #2 place, (even though a majority of financial advisors consider it a meme stock).

Some observations:

  • Only 4 companies make up 25% of the index.

  • Only 25 companies make up 50% (half) of the index.

  • The first half (250 companies) make up 90% of the index.

  • The bottom half (250 companies) make up the remaining 10% of the index.

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