Information technology companies are 36% of the S&P 500's market cap

Nvidia alone is worth more than the whole energy sector. In December 2008 information technology made up 14% of the index's value, counting today's members that were in it then.

Every S&P 500 company by market cap, week by week since December 2008

Today's members only. A faded bubble is a company that had not yet joined the index that week.

23 Oct 2026500 companies worth $69.54T. -0.5% on the week.

Bubble area shows market cap

Each sector's share of combined market cap since December 2008

Today's members only, each from the week it joined. Steps mark big companies joining, such as Berkshire in 2010 and Tesla in 2020.

Weekly, up to 23 Oct 2026

Week ending 23 Oct 2026, against December 2008

Info tech36.4% from 14.1%
20%40%
Financials12.4% from 13.6%
Communication10.0% from 7.1%
Health care9.6% from 14.5%
Consumer discretionary9.6% from 5.0%
Industrials7.7% from 12.0%
Consumer staples5.4% from 15.0%
Energy3.7% from 12.2%
Utilities1.9% from 3.7%
Real estate1.7% from 1.2%
Materials1.6% from 1.5%

Each chart runs from December 2008 to October 2026 on the same scale as the first.

About the data

  • Market cap is each week's last closing price times the shares outstanding the company had most recently reported, adjusted for stock splits. Companies with several share classes count every class, and partnership units that convert one for one into listed shares count too, as at Interactive Brokers, Blackstone and Charter. Shares a company or its benefit trust holds are not counted.
  • After a stock merger the share count steps up at the next quarterly report, so a merged company can look too small for a few weeks and then jump in one week.
  • Companies whose share history starts in mid-2009 use that first count for the weeks before, which can be a few percent off.
  • Every share counts, not only the float-adjusted shares S&P uses to weight the index, so the shares here differ slightly from official index weights.
  • Information technology is the GICS sector of that name. Alphabet, Meta and Netflix are in communication services, and Amazon and Tesla in consumer discretionary; with those five, technology companies make up 51%.
  • A company appears from its first week of trading; before it joined the index its bubble is faded and the totals for members leave it out.
  • Companies that left the index before today are not shown, so the early years understate what the index was worth then and the shares compare today's members only.
  • Bubbles are grouped by today's sector. Open the company page for its weekly chart.