Case study · Finance & markets
The S&P 500 by business model
Which companies make, spend and return money alike, whatever their sector?
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The S&P 500 by business model
492 S&P 500 companies laid out by how they make, spend and return money: margins, R&D, capital intensity, leverage, growth and payouts from their SEC filings, grouped into 10 business models that cut across sectors.
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts (public domain), latest fiscal year filed; constituent list from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No market prices.
492 records
Largest clusters in the map sample
- Branded health care & industrials18%
- Services & logistics, thin margins14%
- Banks, insurers & asset managers12%
- Capital-intensive: utilities, energy, materials12%
- Industrial manufacturers9%
- Distributors & commodity processors9%
- R&D-heavy: semiconductors & pharma8%
- Software & platforms7%
On the map
What to look for
- Companies sit by margins, R&D, capital intensity, leverage, growth and payouts from their filings.
- The 10 business models cut across sectors, so peers appear where a sector list would never put them.
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What to ask
- Which companies share a business model with the large software firms?
- Compare capital-intensive and asset-light companies by payout.
- Which sectors split across the most business models?
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