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  2. Price-weighted index - Wikipedia

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    A price-weighted index is a stock market index where each constituent makes up a fraction of the index that is proportional to its component, the value would be: [1] Adjustment Factor = Index specific constant "Z" / (Number of shares of the stock * Adjusted stock market value before rebalancing)

  3. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? - AOL

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    The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted index. ... The price level of the Dow is calculated by adding the share prices of the companies in the index and dividing by the Dow divisor, ...

  4. Dow Jones Industrial Average - Wikipedia

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    where p are the prices of the component stocks and d is the Dow Divisor. Events such as stock splits or changes in the list of the companies composing the index alter the sum of the component prices. In these cases, in order to avoid discontinuity in the index, the Dow Divisor is updated so that the quotations right before and after the event ...

  5. Nasdaq Composite - Wikipedia

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    The Nasdaq Composite is a capitalization-weighted index; its price is calculated by taking the sum of the products of closing price and index share of all of the securities in the index. The sum is then divided by a divisor which reduces the order of magnitude of the result. [3]

  6. How the Dow's Price-Weighted Scoring Played Out Today - AOL

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    Dow Jones Industrial Average scores are calculated based on share prices, not percentage moves or market caps. It's a somewhat controversial choice that makes a big difference in the way share ...

  7. The Real Reason the Dow's Price-Weighted Model Broke Down - AOL

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    Most investors understand that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted index, making it unusual among market benchmarks. But after serving the Dow well for decades, the price ...

  8. Stock market index - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of price index formulas - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall-Edgeworth index, credited to Marshall (1887) and Edgeworth (1925), [11] is a weighted relative of current period to base period sets of prices. This index uses the arithmetic average of the current and based period quantities for weighting. It is considered a pseudo-superlative formula and is symmetric. [12]