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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 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.
Description: Same as en:Image:DJIA historical graph.svg, except logarithmic rather than linear.Log 10 applied to all values.. From May, 1896 - Dec, 1900: monthly closings; Source:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average It’s been around since 1896, and it consists of 30 blue-chip , U.S.-based companies that trade either on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq exchange.
The Nasdaq Composite (ticker symbol ^IXIC) [2] is a stock market index that includes almost all stocks listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 , it is one of the three most-followed stock market indices in the United States.
As of July 5, 2013, the B400 had a 10-year annualized return of 9.9%, compared to a DJIA annualized return of 5.2%, an S&P500 return of 5.1%, a NASDAQ return of 7.5% and a DJUSTSM return of 6.0% for the same time period. An updated chart of the B400 has appeared in The Trader section of Barron's magazine since the index's inception.
The Nasdaq-100 is frequently confused with the Nasdaq Composite Index. The latter index (often referred to simply as "The Nasdaq") includes the stock of every company that is listed on Nasdaq (more than 3,000 altogether). [citation needed] The Nasdaq-100 is a modified capitalization-weighted index. This particular methodology was created in ...