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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 ...
The index was created in 1929 when all utility stocks were removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. On April 20, 1965, the index closed at 163.32. On September 13, 1974, the index closed at 57.93.
Of the 503 stocks in the S&P 500 (some companies have two classes of stocks that are included) fewer than 30% of them, or 148 stocks, beat the index’s average return of 23.31% in 2024. 24/7 Wall St.
Utilities have been on fire this year as enthusiasm over booming AI electricity demand pushes the sector higher. Case in point: The S&P 500 Utilities ETF is up a whopping 29% so far this year ...
As measured by the Utilities Sector SPDR ETF, utilities delivered a 7.6% gain in the first half (and a 9.3% total return when adding in dividend income). While solid, they underperformed the S&P ...
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.
The S&P 500 Utilities ETF is up more than 12% year to date in a reversal from last year when investors soured on the sector due to expensive projects and high interest rates.