NYSE Composite

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The NYSE Composite (^NYA)

market cap
weighting.

Over 2,000 stocks are covered in the index, of which over 1,600 are from United States corporations and over 360 are foreign listings; however foreign companies are very prevalent among the largest companies in the index: of the 100 companies in the index having the largest market capitalization (and thus the largest impact on the index), more than half (55) are non-U.S. issues.[2]

The index was originally given a value of 50 points, based on the market closing on December 31, 1965, and is weighted by the number of shares listed for each issue. It was re-introduced in January 2003 with a value of 5,000 points. The NYSE Composite outperformed the

bear market
low near 4,650. Its lifetime low (as currently calculated) stands at 347.77 points, reached in October 1974.

After a gradual and volatile recovery since 2009, the index finally set fresh nominal records at the end of 2013, closing at an all-time high of 10,406.77 on December 31.

In addition to the overall composite, there are separate indices for industrial, transportation, utility, and financial corporations.

Record values

Category All-time highs[4]
Closing 18,312.67 Thursday, March 28, 2024
Intraday 18,342.24 Thursday, March 28, 2024

Annual returns

Year Index at year end[4] Change in index[4]
1999 6,876.10 9.15%
2000 6,945.57 1.01%
2001 6,236.39 −10.21%
2002 5,000.00 −19.83%
2003 6,440.30 28.81%
2004 7,250.06 12.57%
2005 7,753.95 6.95%
2006 9,139.02 17.86%
2007 9,740.32 6.58%
2008 5,757.05 −40.89%
2009 7,184.96 24.80%
2010 7,964.02 10.84%
2011 7,477.03 −6.11%
2012 8,443.51 12.93%
2013 10,400.33 23.18%
2014 10,839.24 4.22%
2015 10,143.42 −6.42%
2016 11,056.90 9.01%
2017 12,808.84 15.84%
2018 11,374.39 −11.20%
2019 13,913.03 22.32%
2020 14,524.80 4.40%
2021 17,164.13 18.17%
2022 15,184.31 −11.53%
2023 16,852.89 10.99%

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "NYSE Composite". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  2. ^ iShares NYSE Composite Index Fund (NYC): Holdings
  3. ^ "NYSE Composite Index Continues to Set Records". Retrieved 2007-02-16.
  4. ^
    Wall Street Journal
    . Retrieved 16 October 2022.

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