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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).
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 key U.S. Index S&P 500 has added as much as 13.8% this year with the technology sector clearly beating the 10 other constituent sectors.
CBOE NASDAQ-100 Volatility Index (VXN) CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM) CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) Dow Jones & Company indices Dow Jones Industrial Average; Dow Jones Transportation Average; Dow Jones Utility Average; MarketGrader indices Barron's 400 Index [1] Nasdaq indices NASDAQ Composite; NASDAQ-100; NASDAQ Financial-100
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) rose 23.3% in 2024, marking the first time the index posted back-to-back years of 20% gains or higher since the 1990s. There are 11 stock market sectors, but only ...
Invest in an S&P 500 Index Fund. Index funds are mutual funds that mimic the performance of a particular stock index. Index funds are similar to ETFs, but there are differences. As mentioned ...
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 S&P 500 contains about 500 stocks of America’s top companies, and each share of an index fund gets investors indirect ownership of all the companies – all at one low annual fee.