Weekly Viz 2021-10-04
Pfizer Stock Performance During Covid
Today, when I log into MakeoverMonday as always, I smelled something different, as there is no dataset posted for this week. Then after some Twitter search, I realized last week was not only the 300th makeovermonday, but the last one before its indefinite hiatus. I feel so sad :( I started my MakeoverMonday back in 2018 Jan, when I just started my career at Ancestry, and after 196 weeks, it has been part of my life, my Monday routine. But I totally understand how much effort running such a project involves, and truly appreciate everyone that made this happen.
With that being said, I decide to keep this weekly habit, and find my own dataset going forward. We will see how long I can persist :)
This week, I opened Kaggle (after such a long time). And while scrolling down the homepage, the Pfizer stock price dataset caught my eye. So I made a visualization on this dataset to see whether PFE stock price benefits from COVID.
My Visualization
I added S&P 500 index closing price as a benchmark to better understand PFE’s performance against the market.
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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.
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Insights
- When the market dived in March 2020, we saw a similar dip for PFE. However, PFE was not able to catch up with the crazy S&P 500 uptrend last year;
- We can see two clear spikes of PFE in the past 12 months – once in 2020 Dec with FDA issued EUA for Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine, and another one in 2021 Aug with FDA’s official approval of the Vaccine.
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