What Is The Dow Jones Industrial Average?

What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? It’s in the news every day, but how is it calculated? The Dow Jones Industrial Average is based on the share values of 30 “blue-chip” American companies.

Which companies make up the Dow? Almost all of them are household names, cutting across the fabric of American society, representing a cross-section of industries. Here are the 30 Dow Jones companies, in alphabetical order:

Alcoa
American Express
AT&T
Boeing
Bank of America
Citigroup
Caterpillar
Chevron
Coca Cola
Disney
Dupont
Exxon Mobile
General Electric
General Motors
Home Depot
Hewlett Packard
IBM
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
JP Morgan Chase
Kraft Foods
McDonalds
3M
Merck
Microsoft
Pfizer
Proctor & Gamble
United Technologies
Verizon
Wal-Mart

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