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On Monday, March 4, 1957, the index was expanded to its current extent of 500 companies and was renamed the S&P 500 Stock Composite Index. [1] In 1962, Ultronic Systems became the compiler of the S&P indices including the S&P 500 Stock Composite Index, the 425 Stock Industrial Index, the 50 Stock Utility Index, and the 25 Stock Rail Index. [20]
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).
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) is an industry taxonomy developed in 1999 by MSCI and Standard & Poor's (S&P) for use by the global financial community. The GICS structure consists of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, 74 industries and 163 sub-industries [1] into which S&P has categorized all major public companies.
The sector has lagged the overall market's rally this year, up just 1.1%, while the S&P 500 has surged 26.2% so far. ... which carries the biggest weight in the sector at 12%.
However, in an equal-weight S&P 500 index fund, Microsoft would account for just 0.2 percent of the fund, the same weighting as the other roughly 500 stocks in the fund because each holding is in ...
VIG’s market sector exposure weightings have given it a better comparison to the S&P 500, as its primary focus is in Technology (24.41%), Financial Services (21.5%), and Healthcare (14.65%). Its ...
However, the S&P 100 actually includes 101 larger US company stocks due to holding two different share classes of Alphabet Inc. Constituents of the S&P 100 are selected for sector balance and represent about 67% of the market capitalization of the S&P 500 and almost 54% of the market capitalization of the U.S. equity markets as of December 2020.
The S&P 500, with 500 large U.S. companies, offers a more comprehensive market view, weighted by market capitalization. Other indexes, like the Wilshire 5000 and Russell 2000, cover broader market ...