S&P 500® Price Index
The first U.S. market-cap-weighted stock market index
- Objective – Capture equity performance from the largest companies listed on U.S. exchanges
- Approach – Cap weighted domestic
- Holdings – 505 large-cap companies
- Ticker – SPX
- Features – Over $13.5 trillion is indexed or benchmarked to the index – widely regarded as the best single gauge of large-cap U.S. equities
Helpful Resources
Top five constituents
Historical Performance
From 3/4/1957 to 12/31/2021. Past performance is not an indication or guarantee of future results.
Annual Performance
| Year | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Annual Return | 13.40% | 29.60% | 11.39% | -0.73% | 9.54% | 19.42% | -6.24% | 28.88% | 16.26% | 26.89% | -19.44% |
Sector breakdown
An American stock market index based on market capitalizations of 500 large companies having stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or NASDAQ. The S&P 500® is widely considered to be the leading indicator of the U.S. stock market and economy as a whole.
Source: S&P Dow Jones
As of 12/31/21
1 Based on GICS® sectors. The weightings for each sector of the index are rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent; therefore, the aggregate weights for the index may not equal 100%.
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