Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Positive energy
Strategy | Corporate finance | Economy
October 19, 2022 – Expectations for growth are increasingly pessimistic across many industries—except energy and materials, find senior partner Sven Smit and colleagues in the latest McKinsey Global Survey. As companies in most industries feel the impact of cost increases—particularly the effects of rising energy prices and material costs—survey respondents working in the energy and materials sector have a relatively more optimistic view of their profits over the next six months than they did last quarter.
To read the article, see “Survey results: Expectations for company performance, by industry,” September 30, 2022.
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Industry optimism comparison chart.
Layout / body structure
The chart is laid out as a sector-by-sector survey comparison, with the reader scanning industries to see how profit expectations changed relative to the prior survey. The reading order is categorical across sectors rather than chronological within one industry.
What is being compared
It compares current profit optimism across industries and contrasts those results with responses from the prior survey wave, especially for energy and materials versus the rest of the market.
Measurement system
The page uses survey shares or net optimism measures tied to potential profits. The same measure is repeated across industries so the shifts in confidence are directly comparable.
Visible structure inside the graphic
The internal pieces are the industry categories and the optimism markers attached to each one. The structure is set up to make the energy-and-materials sector stand out against the more pessimistic tone elsewhere.
Main takeaway from the visual
The page shows that energy and materials is the outlier sector in a much darker business mood. While most industries are turning more pessimistic, this sector alone becomes more optimistic than it was in the previous survey.
Key standout values or extremes
The strongest visual contrast is that energy and materials is the only sector in which respondents are more optimistic than in the June survey about potential profits. That makes it the positive outlier in the comparison.
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