Stock Market Indexes

Stock Market Index Piecharts

by Lance Gold

It is noteable to see how the major stock market indexes are heavily weighted to a few, maybe only a half dozen very large companies

These next three posts relate to a financial markets matter.

First is the Nasdaq 100, which is not the Nasdaq index amount reported in the news each morning. But the ‘100’ has a futures contract and an option traded. Source slickcharts.com/nasdaq100 October 15, 2021...

Microsoft Corp: 11% (red)

Apple: 10% (orange-red)

Amazon 8%, Alphabet class A and C: 8%, Tesla 5%, (yellow)

the greens: NVIDIA 4%, Facebook class A 4% (3.5%), Paypal 2% and Adobe 2%...

The other 91 companies (blue)...

Second is the S&P 500, which also has a futures contract and many, many options traded. slickcharts.com/sp500...

The 5 and 6% companies (red): Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet class A and C.

The yellows: Amazon 4%, Facebook 2%, Tesla 2% (rounded off a bit).

the greens (1 to 1.5%): NVIDIA, Berkshire Hathaway Class B, JPMorgan Chase, J&J, UnitedHealth, Visa.

The other 488 companies (blue)...

Last is the Dow Industrials index, which is calculated much differently than the other two. Source: dogsofthedow.com/dow-30-stocks-list-today.html October 15th, 2021.

...the $300/share and higher companies (red): Goldman, Home Depot, United Health, MIcrosoft...

...the $200s (yellow): Visa, Caterpillar, Honeywell, Salesforce, Amgen, Boeing, McDonald’s...

...the $100s (green): American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Disney, 3M, IBM, Apple, Johnson & Johnson, Chevron, Nike, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Travlers...

...the unders (blue): Intel, Verizon, Dow, Merck, Coca-Cola, Cisco Systems, Walgreens...