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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an American stock index composed of 30 large companies, has changed its components 59 times since its inception, on May 26, 1896. [1] As this is a historical listing, the names here are the full legal name of the corporation on that date, with abbreviations and punctuation according to the corporation's own usage.
The factor is changed whenever a constituent company undergoes a stock split so that the value of the index is unaffected by the stock split. First calculated on May 26, 1896, [ 2 ] the index is the second-oldest among U.S. market indices, after the Dow Jones Transportation Average .
The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). However, the apparent decline was due to a later 1916 revision of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retroactively adjusted the values following the closure but ...
The Dow's losses amount to roughly 3%, or more than 1,500 points, in the past nine trading sessions. The index has fallen from a record close of 45,014 on Dec. 4 to 43,499 as of Tuesday's close.
9 This was the Dow's close at the peak on January 11, 1973 before the 1973–74 stock market crash. 10 This was the Dow's close at the peak of August 25, 1987 before the Black Monday stock market crash. 11 The Dow reached an intraday high above 3,000 for the first time on Friday, July 13, 1990, before falling back below by the close.
The stock currently trades for about 35 times forward earnings, compared to a multiple of 30 for the S&P 500. While that's admittedly a premium valuation, it shouldn't be viewed in a vacuum.
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