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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 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).
For example, the S&P 500 index is both cap-weighted and float-adjusted. [3] Historically, in the United States, capitalization-weighted indices tended to use full weighting, i.e., all outstanding shares were included, while float-weighted indexing has been the norm in other countries, perhaps because of large cross-holdings or government ownership.
The table shows their weightings in the ETF, compared to their weightings in the S&P 500 index: Stock. Vanguard ETF Portfolio Weighting. S&P 500 Weighting. 1. Apple. 13.52%. 6.97%. 2. Microsoft.
As of Feb. 5, 2025, the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 carried a cumulative 36% weighting in the index. That means just 10 stocks were responsible for more than one-third of the entire index’s ...
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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.
The S&P 500 delivered a return of 25% during 2024, whereas the S&P 500 Equal Weight index, which assigns the same weighting to every stock regardless of its market cap, was up by just 10%. The ...