The S&P 500 vs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

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Ron Mckowel  - VS   |2009-09-04 18:58:14
The Dow is comprised of 30 of the largest companies in the U.S. across a range
of industries except for transport and utilities. The criteria for a company to
get on the Dow is vague; the companies are leaders in their industry and very
large. The components in the DJIA do not change often as it takes an important
change in a company for it to be removed from the index, and if the index comes
up for review, the Wall Street Journal editors often replace more than one
company at a time.

he S&P 500 strives to represent all of the stocks over $5
billion by making sure the index closely matches the sector weighting that is
seen in all stocks above $5 billion. For example if 20% of stocks with a market
cap of over $5 billion are technology companies, the S&P 500 would try and have
a technology weighting of around 20%. The S&P 500 will only include companies it
determines to be operating, excluding such things as closed-end funds, h...
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