DOW Stock
The DOW Jones Industrial Average is a compilation of 30 US stocks weighted at different levels maintained by The Wall Street Journal. There is no specific stated criteria for a stock to become a DOW Stock however DOW stocks are generally considered Blue chip stocks or stocks with long histories of consistent growth.
Here are the current DOW stocks:
| COMPANY NAME | TICKER | Weight |
| 3M Co. | MMM | 5.9 |
| Alcoa Inc. | AA | 1.0 |
| American Express Co. | AXP | 1.9 |
| AT&T Inc. | T | 2.6 |
| Bank of America Corp. | BAC | 1.5 |
| Boeing Co. | BA | 3.8 |
| Caterpillar Inc. | CAT | 3.5 |
| Chevron Corp. | CVX | 6.8 |
| Citigroup Inc. | C | 0.9 |
| Coca-Cola Co. | KO | 4.2 |
| E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. | DD | 2.6 |
| Exxon Mobil Corp. | XOM | 6.9 |
| General Electric Co. | GE | 1.5 |
| General Motors Corp. | GM | 0.3 |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. | HPQ | 2.9 |
| Home Depot Inc. | HD | 1.9 |
| Intel Corp. | INTC | 1.2 |
| International Business Machines Corp. | IBM | 7.5 |
| Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 5.6 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | JPM | 3.2 |
| Kraft Foods Inc. Cl A | KFT | 2.6 |
| McDonald’s Corp. | MCD | 5.3 |
| Merck & Co. Inc. | MRK | 2.6 |
| Microsoft Corp. | MSFT | 1.9 |
| Pfizer Inc. | PFE | 1.5 |
| Procter & Gamble Co. | PG | 5.9 |
| United Technologies Corp. | UTX | 4.7 |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | VZ | 2.8 |
| Wal-Mart Stores Inc. | WMT | 4.9 |
| Walt Disney Co. | DIS | 2.0 |
The DOW is listed in nearly every newspaper and talked on the news every trading day. However, remember that while the DOW is correlated with the complete market it is not every stock. Just because the DOW is having a down day doesn’t mean everyone had a bad one.
Also, keep in mind when you are looking at a chart of the DOW over a long period of time; the stocks that make up the DOW average changes over time. This greatly increases the potential variation from the long term trend.
An interesting side note – notice the large fall during the Great Depression. Even though today’s economy is bad we haven’t realized any fall anywhere similar to that time frame. Watch the charts and not the news.
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