S&P 500

American stock market index
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Summary

S&P 500 is a stock market index[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of stock market index entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,679 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: Enumeration of 500[4]
  • Operator: S&P Dow Jones Indices[5]
  • Named after: S&P Global Ratings[6]
  • Commons category: S&P 500 Index[7]
  • Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange[8], Nasdaq[9]
  • Has part(s): McDonald's[10], The Walt Disney Company[11], WarnerMedia[12], Target Corporation[13], Accenture[14], Colgate-Palmolive Company[15], Morgan Stanley[16], Microsoft[17], CoStar Group[18], Meta[19], Garmin Ltd.[20], Jack Henry & Associates[21], Nvidia[22], Apple Inc.[23]
  • Inception: March 4, 1957[24]
  • Service entry: March 4, 1957[25]
  • Official website: http://www.spindices.com/indices/equity/sp-500[26], https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/sp-500/#overview[27]
  • Topic's main category: Category:S&P 500 Index[28]
  • Described at URL: https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/definition/standard-poors-500-index-43212[29]
  • External data available at URL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SP500[30]
  • Described by source: Yahoo! Finance[31]
  • Has list: list of S&P 500 companies[32]

Why It Matters

S&P 500 has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . stockanalysis.com. Retrieved . stockanalysis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . stockanalysis.com. Retrieved . stockanalysis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . stockanalysis.com. Retrieved . stockanalysis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . stockanalysis.com. Retrieved . stockanalysis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . yahoo.com. Retrieved . yahoo.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . stockanalysis.com. Retrieved . stockanalysis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . press.spglobal.com. press.spglobal.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . stockanalysis.com. Retrieved . stockanalysis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . stockanalysis.com. Retrieved . stockanalysis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . stockanalysis.com. Retrieved . stockanalysis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . spindices.com. spindices.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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