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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an American stock index composed of 30 large companies, has changed its components 59 times since its inception, on May 26, 1896. [1] As this is a historical listing, the names here are the full legal name of the corporation on that date, with abbreviations and punctuation according to the corporation's own usage.
However, as a whole throughout the Great Depression, the Dow posted some of its worst performances, for a negative return during most of the 1930s for new and old stock market investors. For the decade, the Dow Jones average was down from 248.48 at the beginning of 1930, to a stable level of 150.24 at the end of 1939, a loss of about 40%.
The Dow plunges 89% to 41.22 on July 8, 1932, thus erasing 33 years of gains, in just under three years. Although cyclical bull markets occur in the 1930s and 1940s, the index takes 22 years to surpass its previous highs. 1949–1966: Bull market. The Dow posts impressive growth in the booming economy following the Second World War.
Data source: Slickcharts.com. Return data as of Nov. 18, 2024. Technically, Nvidia is the top-performing stock in the Dow this year, at a nearly 190% return, driven by artificial intelligence (AI ...
The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation ...
The Dow tracks the stock performance of 30 blue chip, American companies. The index is price-weighted and dates back to 1896, making it one of the oldest stock market indexes.
The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). However, the apparent decline was due to a later 1916 revision of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retroactively adjusted the values following the closure but ...
Add in the dividends - all 30 Dow stocks are dividend payers - and the total return comes to a whopping 85%. The blue-chip average, trading at record levels, has 30,000 in its sights. That would ...