We periodically take snapshots of the S&P 500's total market capitalization, including the index's Top 10 component firms by market cap weighting. We were curious to see how the Coronavirus Recession has affected who's on top in the S&P 500, so we created the following animated chart to visualize how the index and its top 10 firms' market capitalization has changed from the time before first coronavirus case in the U.S. was documented and the present.
The earlier snapshot is from 8 January 2020, 13 days before the first U.S. coronavirus case was reported in