The Global 100 largest companies distributed 4.2% of their market capitalization in 2018 with tech firms relying more heavily on share buybacks and oil & gas and telecomms relying more on dividends, as shown in this stacked bar chart with data rows. Data comes from the PwC Global Top 100 companies by market capitalisation published in July 2019.
The 19 tech firms in the Global 100 distributed $164B through share buybacks and $74B in dividends, accounting for 2.5% and 1.6% of their market cap, respectively. The 18 financial firms distributed $88B through share buybacks and $107B in dividends, accounting for 2.1% and 3.1% of their market cap. The 9 oil & gas and 4 telecom companies relied almost exclusively on dividends, distributing less than .1% of their market cap through share buybacks.
Value Distribution in the Global 100 Companies in a Stacked Bar Chart with Data Rows
How I Made this Stacked Bar Chart with Data Rows
The Global 100 data for this chart is presented below:
Here's how I made the stacked bar chart with data rows:
- use pdftables to convert the data from the PwC report into a form that I can copy and paste into Excel
- create a Mekko Graphics chart in PowerPoint based on the Excel data
- use the switch bars and series to treat the spreadsheet columns as series and the rows as bars
- edit some of the bar and series labels to make them more readable in the chart
- use Format Bars and Series dialog to specify which series to be displayed on chart, as data rows, or ignored, to add data row totals and to format data rows
- adjust the internal margins to make room for the data rows
- select data row labels and unclick autowrap to show them on one line
- show values in segments and format them as percentages
- format bar totals as percentages
- use format axis task pane to hide y axis, x axis line and to adjust the y axis maximum from 7% to 6.5%
- add a legend and move it to the top of the chart area
- add average line, reduce its width and change its title to show as Global 100
- move labels that overlap average line
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