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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 ...
S&P 100; S&P 500 (GSPC, INX, SPX) S&P MidCap 400; S&P SmallCap 600; S&P 1500; Value Line Composite Index; ... List of countries by stock market capitalization; References
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is home to 500 companies from 11 different sectors of the economy, making it the most diversified of the major U.S. stock market indexes. The S&P 500 delivered a ...
The S&P 500, also known as the Standard & Poor’s 500 or S&P, is a stock index that includes some of the biggest and best-known companies in the United States.
In 2007, CEOs in the S&P 500 averaged $10.5 million annually, 344 times the pay of typical American workers. This was a drop in ratio from 2000, when they averaged 525 times the average pay. [305] The 2007–2008 financial crisis drove executive pay down somewhat, but it had begun to recover by 2010. The average pay for the chief executive of ...
For example, the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF charges expenses of 0.03 percent annually. That amounts to $3 for every $10,000 invested in the fund. None of the other funds is much more expensive.
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.