The Global Dow (GDOW) is a 150-stock index of corporations from around the world, created by Dow Jones & Company. It consists of multinational blue-chip companies.
Like its progenitor, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU), stocks in The Global Dow are selected by senior editors of The Wall Street Journal. Joining them for this new index were Dow Jones Newswires senior editors in the three major regions of the globe. The Global Dow is bigger—150 stocks rather than 30—and its components are weighted equally rather than by price. All 30 Dow industrial stocks are included, as well as some from the Dow Jones Transportation and Utility averages.
The Global Dow tracks leading companies from around the world in all industries, selected not just for current size and reputation but also for their potential. It covers both developed and emerging markets. In addition, it includes companies from emerging sectors, such as alternative energy. The components are equally weighted, which means that price movements of the larger stocks have no greater impact on index performance than those of the smaller stocks.
The Global Dow is calculated and disseminated in real time by Dow Jones Indexes. Current and closing values can be accessed daily in The Wall Street Journal, and real time at www.djindexes.com . The Base Value is 1000 as of December 31, 2000.
The Global Dow (GDOW) components
3M ABB Abbott Laboratories Alcoa Allianz Amazon América Móvil Amgen American Express Anglo American plc Anheuser-Busch InBev Apple ArcelorMittal Assicurazioni Generali AstraZeneca AT&T BAE Systems Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Banco Santander Bank of America Bank of New York Mellon BASF Baxter International Bharti Airtel BHP BNP Paribas Boeing Bridgestone BP Canon Carnival Corporation & plc Carrefour Caterpillar Chevron Corporation China Construction Bank China Mobile China Petroleum & Chemical China Unicom Cisco Systems CLP Holdings The Coca-Cola Company Colgate-Palmolive Compagnie de Saint-Gobain CEMIG Companhia Vale do Rio Doce Pref A ConocoPhillips Daimler AG Deere & Co Deutsche Bank DuPont E.ON eBay EDP-Energias de Portugal Ericsson ExxonMobil FedEx Esprit Holdings First Solar Freeport-McMoRan Gazprom GDF Suez General Electric Gilead Sciences GlaxoSmithKline Goldman Sachs Google Hanwha Q Cells Hewlett-Packard Home Depot Honda Honeywell HSBC(UK registered) Hutchison Whampoa IBM Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Infosys Johnson & Johnson JPMorgan Chase Komatsu Kraft Foods LG Electronics LVMH McDonald's Medtronic Merck & Co Medco Health Solutions Microsoft Mitsubishi Corporation Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Mitsui & Co Mizuho Financial Group Monsanto Company Nasdaq National Australia Bank National Grid plc Nestle News Corp Cl A Nike Cl B Nintendo Nippon Steel Nokia Novartis Panasonic PetroChina Petroleo Brasileiro S/A Pref Pfizer Philip Morris International PotashCorp Procter & Gamble Reliance Industries Renewable Energy Corporation Rio Tinto Roche Holding AG Part. Cert. Royal Bank of Canada Royal Dutch Shell A Samsung SAP Schlumberger Seven & I Holdings Siemens Société Générale Sony Southwest Airlines SunPower Corp. Cl A Suntech Power Holdings TSMC Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Tata Steel Telefónica Tesco Time Warner Toshiba TotalEnergies Toyota Travelers UBS UniCredit United Parcel Service Cl B United Technologies Veolia Environnement Verizon Communications Vestas Vinci Visa Cl A Vodafone Wal-Mart Stores Walt Disney Company
Country allocation Country % United States 42.27% Japan 9.97% Great Britain 8.30% France 6.85% Germany 4.74% Switzerland 4.62% China 3.05% India 2.39% Spain 2.29% Hong Kong 2.20% Brazil 1.86% Canada 1.64% South Korea 1.52% Australia 1.37% Italy 1.15% Mexico 0.96% Taiwan 0.79% Portugal 0.73% Finland 0.68% Sweden 0.64% Russia 0.54% Greece 0.44% Norway 0.40% Denmark 0.32% Netherlands 0.29%
Sector allocation Sector % Financials 17.17% Industrials 13.19% Consumer Goods 12.27% Oil & Gas 10.54% Technology 10.41% Health Care 10.37% Consumer Services 9.58% Basic Materials 6.21% Telecommunications 5.95% Utilities 4.30%
See also BBC Global 30 MSCI World S&P Global 100 S&P Global 1200
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