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S&P 500 Companies Expanding vs Retrenching
Share of companies whose Company Posture reads Expanding or Retrenching at month-end, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Palanor Company Posture (method posture-v1) from SEC EDGAR filings, DOL hiring filings and USPTO patent publications, point in time. S&P 500 members at each month-end; before 26 September 2026 the stored membership is the current list carried back. Not a rating or advice; no prices used. Expanding ↔ Retrenching reads capital spending, debt raised, buybacks against capex, hiring filings, deals and patent publications.
What S&P 500 companies are doing with money and people, by their own filings rather than their words or their share prices. Each company is placed against its own past and its sector, so the lines move when many companies change course at once.
What this chart reads
- S&P 500 Companies Expanding (Company Posture, % of companies)as “Expanding”latest 2026-09-30
- S&P 500 Companies Retrenching (Company Posture, % of companies)as “Retrenching”latest 2026-09-30
Sources
S&P 500 Companies Expanding (Company Posture, % of companies). Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL cash-flow facts, Forms 8-K and D), U.S. Department of Labor OFLC H-1B and PERM disclosure data, USPTO patent publications. Palanor calculation (Posture, method posture-v1). Refreshed.
S&P 500 Companies Retrenching (Company Posture, % of companies). Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL cash-flow facts, Forms 8-K and D), U.S. Department of Labor OFLC H-1B and PERM disclosure data, USPTO patent publications. Palanor calculation (Posture, method posture-v1). Refreshed.
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