[HN Gopher] US Tech Market Treemap
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       US Tech Market Treemap
        
       Author : gwintrob
       Score  : 90 points
       Date   : 2025-11-14 16:42 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | ArtTimeInvestor wrote:
       | This is cool.
       | 
       | It tells you something about how much a gambling place the market
       | is when a site like this has a one day default for the price
       | change. When it comes to a high level view of the market, why
       | would I care for a comparison of todays prices to ... YESTERDAY??
       | 
       | My first reaction was to look for a 10 year option. There is
       | none, so I took the 5 year option. All of the big names roughly
       | doubled or tripled over the last 5 years. Amazon lagging a bit
       | behind. I could start to reason about the numbers but .. 5 years
       | is just too short. I would play with it more if there was a 10
       | year option.
       | 
       | And I would love Love LOVE a European version of this.
        
         | chronil3058 wrote:
         | >It tells you something about how much a gambling place the
         | market is when a site like this has a one day default for the
         | price change.
         | 
         | Because earning 10% in passive index funds over 20-30 years
         | will not make you rich.
         | 
         | Subtract taxes and inflation, and you're at low single digit
         | returns.
         | 
         | The average tech person "gambling" with stock picking will have
         | the same quality of life as the passive index fund investor.
         | 
         | However the gambler has higher chance at generational wealth.
         | The index fund investor does not.
        
           | nerdponx wrote:
           | > the gambler has higher chance at generational wealth
           | 
           | And a symmetrically higher chance of ruin, and in the process
           | the "averaged out" gain might actually be worse than the
           | index investor after taxes, fees, and inflation are factored
           | in.
        
           | HPsquared wrote:
           | They could save a lot of effort and take it to the casino.
        
           | cj wrote:
           | Most people don't invest in things with the explicit goal of
           | getting rich.
           | 
           | Most average investors would be happy with guaranteed single
           | digit returns, however boring.
        
         | roenxi wrote:
         | In defence of prices yesterday - the people who would use a
         | tool like this the most are the traders since they are looking
         | at the numbers every day, so it probably comes out of the
         | trader community.
         | 
         | Real returns are expected to be in the 2-8% range which means
         | that most people should be looking at timeframes around 10-50
         | year. Unfortunately at that range the money printing has a real
         | impact so the chart needs to be adjusted for inflation and,
         | realistically, changes in the money supply [0] and so it is
         | more work for the implementer.
         | 
         | [0] If it hasn't gone up 33% since 2020 it probably lost value
         | in real terms.
        
       | hnthrowawayacct wrote:
       | why is hims and hers listed as a tech company?
        
         | Terr_ wrote:
         | It looks like the company (ticker: HIMS) has made a lot of
         | noise about being an AI-enabled telehealth company etc., so it
         | might be one of those "because it's on the internet" things.
        
         | lotsofpulp wrote:
         | If Netflix is a tech company, why aren't any of the other
         | streaming businesses?
         | 
         | I guess that's just Comcast and Disney, since Paramount went
         | private, and WarnerBros is about to also.
        
           | is_true wrote:
           | In my experience using both Netflix and Disney+ I have to say
           | that Netflix is clearly a tech company or Disney+ is a pigeon
           | carrier company.
        
         | mbesto wrote:
         | Tech isn't a market thats why.... but there is a narrative that
         | it is.
         | 
         | Tesla is an automobile, solar and robotics company.
         | 
         | Facebook is a media company.
         | 
         | Google is a highly diversified media company.
         | 
         | The list goes on and on...
         | 
         | Fun fact: Goldman Sachs spends $1.9B on technology ever year.
         | Palantir spends about $1B (if you add COGS/Infra + R&D).
        
         | francisofascii wrote:
         | Maybe because it's HQ is in the Bay area? :)
        
         | krkb wrote:
         | Great question. I included them because they would argue very
         | tech enabled. Also, around $10B market cap cutoff. In a future
         | iteration I may make it so you can edit which companies get
         | displayed...if that's interesting to people.
        
       | irrpy wrote:
       | Nice work. For more inspiration I would take a look at this
       | website -> https://finviz.com/map.ashx
       | 
       | I use it all the time and its one of my favorite ways to visually
       | see what is happening.
        
         | krkb wrote:
         | Yes, I love finviz. Lmk if you want any additional features
         | implemented or are interested in helping build.
        
       | CSMastermind wrote:
       | I didn't realize that Doordash was doing so well.
        
         | krkb wrote:
         | Incredibly well
        
         | ghaff wrote:
         | There are apparently a lot of people, if probably a small
         | subset of the population, who will pay a big premium for
         | delivered food.
        
         | darth_aardvark wrote:
         | It's doing well, TODAY. 6% daily bumps are big but they happen
         | all the time. Look at its performance over the past year for a
         | better picture.
        
       | roughly wrote:
       | At a glance, that's what, 2/3rds of the market in 10 companies?
        
       | outside1234 wrote:
       | This is the scary thing about OpenAI. When the OpenAI bubble pops
       | it is going to cause an immense amount of 401k pain for a lot of
       | people.
        
         | krkb wrote:
         | Thinking of maybe including private companies on here some day
         | too. A few people recommended.
        
         | BeetleB wrote:
         | OpenAI is not a public company - it shouldn't affect anyone's
         | 401K.
        
           | avrionov wrote:
           | It will affect Microsoft, NVidia, Oracle at least and many
           | other companies which have deals with them.
        
             | BeetleB wrote:
             | And when it does, the losses in their 401Ks will be due to
             | the artificial gains they've been seeing in the last few
             | years.
             | 
             | IOW, I don't expect people's 401K to dip below what it
             | would have been had the AI bubble never existed.
        
       | dmoy wrote:
       | 5 year view drops META, I guess it loses continuity with the
       | previous ticker? That would be a cool bug to fix, because
       | companies do switch stuff from time to time (see e.g. GOOG ->
       | GOOG+GOOGL)
        
         | krkb wrote:
         | Yes, some of the data drops. That one is because of the ticker
         | change I think. Would be glad to add it to the roadmap, but
         | it's really just a fun internal tool turned side project for
         | me, so please do lmk if you want to help.
        
           | sitzkrieg wrote:
           | it would be nice to historically visualize splits and
           | buybacks but this is a hard problem to display across broad
           | markets nicely
        
       | krkb wrote:
       | Thanks for posting! If anyone is interested in the project and
       | wants to help, please DM me. I made this as an internal tool for
       | myself and shared it in case others found it cool. Plenty of
       | roadmap / much more than I have time, so anyone is welcome to
       | help if excited about where it can go:
       | https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantinebuhler/
       | https://x.com/Konstantine
        
       | rshanreddy wrote:
       | Super clean and instantly legible. Great to have a clean, up-to-
       | date tech-only treemap, glad this exists!
       | 
       | A few suggestions: 1) Sector/subsector drill-downs (AI, cloud,
       | semis, autos) so you can zoom into sectors/clusters 2) Hover/tap
       | cards with basics like revenue, P/E, EV/EBITDA, or YTD return 3)
       | AI "explanations mode": tap a ticker -> auto-generate a
       | 1-sentence summary of why it moved today ("AMD up 3%: fabs
       | reporting stronger wafer starts; NVDA sympathy move")
       | 
       | Congrats on the ship @krkb :)
        
       | carabiner wrote:
       | This, and pretty much every other hobby project posted on HN,
       | gets blocked by my corporate firewall. Anyone know why this might
       | be the case? I'm guessing it might be something to do with SSL
       | but not sure. Otherwise my corp has unrestricted access to
       | internet.
        
       | HPsquared wrote:
       | Can you view different dimensions? It'd be nice to see revenue,
       | say, or profits. As in, allow changing the size metric
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | It's totally wild to me that Cisco is still a top-20 entry on
       | this map, in light of the fact that their products contain 100%
       | frozen concentrated garbage juice and they haven't made anything
       | that benefitted the customer in more than 20 years.
        
       | phailhaus wrote:
       | Oh man being able to pick the time range is awesome. I hate hate
       | hate standard financial data tables and how they just show you
       | "today's performance". Absolutely useless, nobody in retail cares
       | outside of gambling day traders. How is it that even giants like
       | Fidelity can't get this right? I need to be able to see my
       | portfolio's performance over the last month, year, 5 years!
        
       | eitally wrote:
       | What's the conventional wisdom explanation for why the big
       | enterprise SaaS vendors are all down 10-20%+ YTD. This holds for
       | ServiceNow, Workday, and even Salesforce?
        
         | nathancspencer wrote:
         | Not that I agree, but per-seat pricing, with forecasted lower
         | seat growth of companies due to AI labor market displacement.
        
       | 3x3m3 wrote:
       | Can you include bitcoin?
        
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