Dow Jones Industrial Average

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Dow Jones Industrial Average
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Summary

Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of stock market index entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32,372 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Owned by: S&P Dow Jones Indices[4]
  • Named after: Dow Jones & Company[5], Charles Dow[6]
  • Commons category: Dow Jones Industrial Average[7]
  • Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange[8], Nasdaq[9]
  • Has part(s): 3M[10], American Express[11], Apple Inc.[12], Boeing[13], Caterpillar Inc.[14], Chevron Corporation[15], Cisco[16], The Coca-Cola Company[17], The Walt Disney Company[18], Amgen[19], Goldman Sachs[20], The Home Depot[21], IBM[22], Johnson & Johnson[23]
  • Inception: May 26, 1896[24]
  • Official website: http://www.djaverages.com[25], https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/dow-jones-industrial-average/[26]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Dow Jones Industrial Average[27]
  • Described at URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI/[28]
  • Topic has template: Template:Dow Jones Industrial Average companies[29]
  • Has list: list of closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average[30], list of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average[31]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics[32]
  • Related category: Category:Companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average[33]

Why It Matters

Dow Jones Industrial Average has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 119 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Related category → Category:Companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average
    Instance of → stock market index
    Country → United States
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Mathematics
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