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S&P 500

The S&P 500® has been widely regarded as the best single gauge of the large cap U.S. equities market since the index was first published in 1957. The index has over US$ 3.5 trillion benchmarked, with index assets comprising approximately US$ 915 billion of this total. The index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy, capturing 75% coverage of U.S. equities.

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Performance Data

(as of 30-Jul-2010 )
Daily Annualized
Index Name Adjusted Market Cap ($Million) Index Level Performance
1 Day MTD QTD YTD
TOTAL RETURNS
S&P 500 (TR) N/A 1,835.40 .01% 7.01% 7.01% -.11%
PRICE RETURNS
S&P 500 9,968,943.09 1,101.60 .01% 6.88% 6.88% -1.21%
PRICE RETURNS BY SECTOR
Energy 1,083,577.70 403.14 -.25% 7.98% 7.98% -6.24%
Materials 353,631.51 193.56 .49% 12.23% 12.23% -3.13%
Industrials 1,060,946.42 262.83 .18% 10.3% 10.3% 8.16%
Cons Disc 1,016,607.27 247.48 .65% 7.73% 7.73% 5.28%
Cons Staples 1,137,606.32 277.97 .17% 5.84% 5.84% 1.34%
Health Care 1,133,702.04 331.00 .27% 1.26% 1.26% -8.62%
Financials 1,640,034.62 197.92 -.03% 6.61% 6.61% 2.13%
Info Tech 1,873,210.15 353.57 -.46% 7.17% 7.17% -4.62%
Telecom Svc 302,270.67 110.13 -.08% 7.93% 7.93% -3.93%
Utilities 367,356.38 153.97 -.63% 7.35% 7.35% -2.54%
Index Name Performance
(as of 30-Jun-2010 )
1 Year 3 Year 5 Year
TOTAL RETURNS
S&P 500 (TR) 14.43% -9.81% -.79%
PRICE RETURNS
S&P 500 12.12% -11.82% -2.85%
PRICE RETURNS BY SECTOR
Energy -.13% -11.01% 1.71%
Materials 11.64% -11.65% .64%
Industrials 24.57% -12.4% -2.68%
Cons Disc 26.11% -9.53% -2.39%
Cons Staples 10.27% -1.93% 2.29%
Health Care 6.67% -7.2% -1.91%
Financials 15.47% -27.41% -14.08%
Info Tech 14.71% -5.28% 1.27%
Telecom Svc -2.05% -16.65% -3.37%
Utilities 1.08% -10.5% -2.19%

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Index Level Performance

  (as of 30-Jul-2010)
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Cumulative Performance

Index Characteristics

(as of 30-Jul-2010)




Number of Constituents 500
Adjusted Market Cap ($ Billion) 9,968.94
Constituent Mkt. Cap(Adjusted $ Billion)
  - Average 19.94
  - Largest 305.09
  - Smallest 1.02
  - Median 8.91
% Weight Largest Constituent 3.06%
Top 10 Holdings(% Market Cap Share) 18.82%

Sector Breakdown

(as of 30-Jul-2010)
Sector Breakdown

Top 10 Constituents by Market Cap

(as of 30-Jul-2010)
Constituent Symbol GICS® Sector Price ($)
Exxon Mobil Corp XOM Energy 59.68
Apple Inc. AAPL Information Technology 257.25
Microsoft Corp MSFT Information Technology 25.81
Procter & Gamble PG Consumer Staples 61.16
General Electric Co GE Industrials 16.12
Intl Business Machines Corp IBM Information Technology 128.4
JP Morgan Chase & Co JPM Financials 40.28
Johnson & Johnson JNJ Health Care 58.09
AT&T Inc T Telecommunication Services 25.94
Chevron Corp CVX Energy 76.21