Trillion-Dollar Stocks
Tesla reached $1 trillion in market capitalization faster than any other company except Facebook and Saudi Aramco, as shown in this horizontal bar chart with data column. It joined 5 other trillion-dollar stocks. Data are from company financial information as reported in Google Finance and Statista.
Trillion-Dollar Stocks in a Horizontal Bar Chart with Data Column
Why Use a Horizontal Bar Chart with Data Column for Trillion-Dollar Stocks
The horizontal bar chart shows days from IPO to $1T. I think the differences among the companies in time to $1T is easiest to see when the bars are horizontal. Adding the data column provides key supplemental information on the current market cap of each company.
How I Made this Trillion-Dollar Stock Horizontal Bar Chart
Here is the data I used to create the chart:
Here's how I made the highest paid athletes horizontal bar chart with data column:
- create a horizontal stacked bar chart in PowerPoint
- type the data into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor as shown above
- right-click in the Mekko Graphics Data Editor to set the data column
- add the y axis title, hide rest of y axis and x axis line
- adjust internal margins
- format bar totals as days (custom format) and data column as $T
- move and format y axis
- edit Saudi Aramco bar total 1 days label to 1 day
- change series colors and segment color
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