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What are the companies listed on the DJIA?

Today, some of the household names that are included in the DJIA include the Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO),McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD), and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT). What does the DJIA measure? At its inception, the DJIA was a simple arithmetic average.

What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones or the Dow for short tracks the performance of 30 of the biggest companies in the US including Boeing, Intel, and Dow. It’s often used as a barometer for the overall performance of the country’s equity markets.

What are the components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is price-averaged meaning that it is computed by taking the average price of the 30 stocks that comprise the index and dividing that figure by a number called the divisor. The divisor is there to take into account stock splits and mergers which also makes the Dow a scaled average.

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