S&P 500

gauge of large cap U.S. equities. There is over USD 4.83 trillion benchmarked to the index, with index assets comprising approximately USD 1.1 trillion of this total. The index includes 500 leading companies and captures approximately 80% coverage of available market capitalization.

S & P 500 - stock index, which is included in the basket 500 selected U.S. public companies with the highest capitalization. The list is owned by Standard & Poor's.

as the S & P 500. The capitalization is used the weights in calculation. The S & P 500 is competing with the Dow Jones and deservedly called a barometer of the U.S. economy.

Shares of all companies in the S & P 500 are traded on major U.S. exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

List of stocks in the S & P 500 is not a simple list of the largest companies in the U.S., as there are not companies, privately owned and the companies that have insufficient liquidity. In addition, when the list is being completing the authors attempt to provide the most complete variety of American industries.

equity markets and, through the markets, the U.S. economy.

Companies in the S&P 500 are considered leading companies in leading industries

family of indices

The S&P MidCap 400

the mid-cap range of companies

S&P SmallCap 600

The small-cap companies

(GICS)

The indices should be fair, meaning that an investor who buys all the stocks in an index with correct index weights can achieve the same performance that S&P Dow Jones Indices calculates.

SmallCap 600 and the combined indices named above, the S&P Dow Jones U.S. indices include: