Question

[trader_dante]

Does anyone know where I can get a list of the top 2 (or more) most important stocks in the Dow 30 and S&P500, FTSE 100 etc etc.

So for Dow I guess it will be the highest price stock at any time since its price weighted...S&P is done by capitalisation I believe...

I wonder if there is a site that updates this info regularly...

 

[KillPhil08]

wikipedia i thought - scrap that

 

[Masquerade]

You mean market cap? Check out Digital Look

Financial Investing | Digital Look

 

[dcraig1]

You can screen for index membership and market cap/price in Yahoo Java stock screener, which should do the job for Dow and SPX.

Stock Screener - Yahoo! Finance

It used to work in the simple html screener, but they seem to have broken the index membership bit.

In general, Yahoo finance updates things like market cap daily, so it should be quite up to date.

 

[Charlton]

Does anyone know where I can get a list of the top 2 (or more) most important stocks in the Dow 30 and S&P500, FTSE 100 etc etc.

So for Dow I guess it will be the highest price stock at any time since its price weighted...S&P is done by capitalisation I believe...

I wonder if there is a site that updates this info regularly...

For Dow http:

//www.indexarb.com/indexComponentWtSwitch.html

For FTSE quite a comprehensive doc showing weightings by sector and small indices

Research & Publications - FTSE UK All-Share Weightings Book


Charlton

 

[superspurs]

great link,thx

 

[pelzar]

a bloomberg terminal!

 

[DT]

Most of the stuff about the index composition, weightings you can get from the exchanges themselves. The composition of the indexes will only change a few times a year (quarterly for FTSE IIRC). I think FTSE get a bit funny when you ask them about the divisor but you should be able to get answers to anything else you want direct from the exchange website/customer services. I presume you're interested in this as you're scalping or spreading index futures? If so there is probably no need for bloomberg, adding the cash prices to say a CQG subscription shouldn't cost too much and setting up say a portfolio in yahoo finance of the top 5 for each index to monitor any major up coming news/announcements should suffice.

 

[N Rothschild]

exon mobil is the biggest company on the dow

 

[tar]

out of the subject but here is a link to the SP500 heatmap shows market cap for each stock , i took it from this forums somewhere ...


S&P 500 Map Heatmap