Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The CAC 40 (French pronunciation: [kak kaʁɑ̃t]) (Cotation Assistée en Continu) is a benchmark French stock market index. The index represents a capitalization-weighted measure of the 40 most significant stocks among the 100 largest market caps on the Euronext Paris (formerly the Paris Bourse). It is a price return index.
A common version of capitalization weighting is the free-float weighting. With this method a float factor is assigned to each stock to account for the proportion of outstanding shares that are held by the general public, as opposed to "closely held" shares owned by the government, royalty, or company insiders (see float). For example, if for ...
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.
Market cap is given by the formula =, where MC is the market capitalization, N is the number of common shares outstanding, and P is the market price per common share. [ 8 ] For example, if a company has 4 million common shares outstanding and the closing price per share is $20, its market capitalization is then $80 million.
The SBF 120 (Société des Bourses Françaises 120 Index) is a French stock market index. [1] The index is based on the 120 most actively traded stocks listed in Paris.It includes all 60 stocks in the CAC 40 and CAC Next 20 indexes and 60 additional stocks listed on the Premier Marché and Second Marché under Euronext Paris.
The CAC 40 is a French stock market index, a benchmark index for Euronext Paris Pages in category "CAC 40" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 ...
Central Arbitration Committee; CAC 40, a French stock market index; Cotation Assistée en Continu, an electronic trading system used at the French stock exchange; Capital account convertibility, a fiscal policy based on conducting transactions of local financial assets into foreign financial assets freely
The CAC Next 20 is an index of security prices used with the Euronext Paris or Euronext Amsterdam. It gathers the 20 companies whose market capitalizations are ranked after those of the 40 companies who compose the CAC 40. These 20 are possible candidates to replace the members of the CAC 40 index. The CAC Next 20 was launched on 31 December 2002.