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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 ).
Case in point: The S&P 500 Utilities ETF is up a whopping 29% so far this year — the best-performing sector to date, compared to the broader index's 23% rise.
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 ...
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 ...
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is up 21.5% in 2024 so far, which is more than twice its average annual return since it was established in 1957. But some stocks in the index are performing even ...
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.
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.
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is a joint venture between S&P Global, the CME Group, and News Corp that was announced in 2011 and later launched in 2012. It produces, maintains, licenses, and markets stock market indices as benchmarks and as the basis of investable products, such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, and structured products .