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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 Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (/ ˈ d aʊ /), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity indexes.
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&P; 500 and Nasdaq are all up about 40%.If you want to ride the coattails of the Dow's accelerating revival, just remember that not all Dow stocks are created equal. Each index component ...
The fund holds the 30 stocks that comprise the Dow, but holds them in equal weights, whereas the Dow is price-weighted, meaning the highest priced stocks account for the largest percentage of the ...
The Dow Jones Industrials (INDEX: ^DJI) is the one single measure of the stock market that the most people are familiar with. With its 30 component companies, the Dow has a manageable number of ...
Add in the dividends - all 30 Dow stocks are dividend payers - and the total return comes to a whopping 85%. The blue-chip average, trading at record levels, has 30,000 in its sights.
This is the category for the 30 current components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Companies formerly included in the DJIA are categorized in the category "Former components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average