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The Standard and Poor's 500 or else S&P 500 is a float-adjusted capitalization-weighting index that includes 500 large-cap US companies listed on NYSE or NASDAQ.
Begun in 1957, the S&P 500 is maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices.
- The S&P 500 index is a free-float weighted/capitalization-weighted index
- S&P 500 covers about 80% of the available market capitalization
- S&P 500 companies are publicly listed on either the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ
- As of mid-2021, the nine largest listed companies on the S&P 500 accounted for 28.1% of the total market capitalization
- The listed companies on the S&P 500 index are selected by a committee (the requirements are listed below)
- Related indices include S&P Global 100, S&P GLOBAL 1200, S&P International 700, and S&P/TSX 60 Index
- Ticker symbols include $SPX, US500, GSPC, INX
Short-History
In 1923, Standard Statistics Company began rating mortgage bonds. Later, in 1926, they created a 90-stock index. In 1941, Standard Statistics Company merged with Poor's Publishing and formed Standard & Poor's.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, or DJIA, or Dow 30, or just Dow is one of the most important world financial indices. The Dow Jones Industrial tracks 30 large blue-chip companies trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq. It was founded on May 26, 1896, and today, it is owned by the CME Group.
- Dow 30 follows the daily fluctuations of 30 large publicly-owned US companies
- Exchanges include the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ
- The weighting method follows the 'Price-Weighted Index'
- Trading symbols include US30, DJI, and DJIA
- The Dow is named after Charles Dow, who created the index along with his partner Edward Jones
- After the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJTA), the DJIA is the oldest market index in the US
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Started in July 1988, the DAX-40 is a capitalization-weight index that includes major blue chip companies trading on the Frankfurt exchange.
- DAX conists of 40 large companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- DAX is well diversified across different sectors of the economy
- 37 of the listed companies are domiciled in Germany, 2 in Netherlands, and 1 in the United Kingdom
- It is a total return index using the "capitalization-weighted" as its weighting method
- Prices are tracked via the Xetra trading venue
- Until 2021, the listed companies were 30, and DAX was known as DAX-30
- Related indices include MDAX, TecDAX, SDAX, and ÖkoDAX
- In 2022, the DAX-40 total market cap was 1.6 trillion euro
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The NASDAQ-100 is a capitalization-weight index that includes 102 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Companies outside the US are included too.
Starting in 1985, the NASDAQ-100 incorporates multiple industries, except financials. For the financial industry, Nasdaq introduced another brother index called NASDAQ Financial-100.
- Nasdaq was introduced in 1985 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)
- On The beginning price of the Nasdaq-100 was set at 250 points
- On December 31, 1993, the base of Nasdaq was reset from 800 points to 125 points
- Historically, the NASDAQ-100 is considerably more volatile than the Dow Jones Industrial and the S&P500
- NASDAQ-100 is mainly focused on dynamic industries like online technology, telecoms, biotechnology, and media
- The dollar value of exchange-traded products tracking the Nasdaq-100 Index exceeded $300 billion at the end of 2021
- As of mid-2022, NASDAQ-100 is made up of 102 equity securities
This is the yearly chart of NASDAQ-100, each candle in the chart reflects 12 months.
