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The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on the American stock exchanges (including the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average ).
The Standard and Poor's 500, or simply the S&P 500, [5] is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. It is one of the most commonly followed equity indices and includes approximately 80% of the total market capitalization of U.S. public companies, with an ...
Large companies not ordered by any nation or type of business: MSCI World (Developed, large-cap stocks only); MSCI ACWI Index (Developed and EM, all cap stocks); S&P Global 100
The S&P 500 index consolidates Warren Buffett's company under its lower-priced Class B stock, leaving Class A out "due to turnover and liquidity concerns." Trading volumes tend to suffer when a ...
The stock received an even bigger boost after the announcement that it would replace Integra Lifesciences Holdings in the S&P MidCap 400 in June. Only a few days ago, TPL was added to the S&P 500.
Dividend stocks are one of the most popular ways to invest. They can deliver cash into your pocket, giving you a real return regardless of how the stock market is performing. And among the ...
Stock market indices may be categorized by their index weight methodology, or the rules on how stocks are allocated in the index, independent of its stock coverage. For example, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Equal Weight each cover the same group of stocks, but the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, while the S&P 500 Equal Weight places equal weight on each constituent.
Sigma-Aldrich (SIAL) was removed from the list due to its acquisition by Merck Group. In 2014, Bemis (BMS) was removed from the S&P 500 index and therefore removed from the index. In 2013, Pitney Bowes (PBI) was removed after slashing the dividend from 37.5c to 18.75c per quarter per share. In 2012, CenturyLink (CTL) was removed from the index.