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NASDAQ Transportation Index
The NASDAQ Transportation Index (Symbol: TRAN) is a Capitalization-weighted index, capitalization-weighted stock market index designed to measure the performance of all NASDAQ stocks in the transportation sector. The index was developed with a base value of 100 as of February 5, 1971. The parent index is NASDAQ Composite Index. History The index closed the year 1990 at 417.07. The index closed the year 1999 at 999.11. In October 2007, it hit an all-time closing high of 3,107.87. Then in March 2009, it hit a six-year closing low of 1,242.50. In March 2014 it broke the high from 2007. Components This list is current as of February 18, 2011. An up-to-date list is available in the NASDAQ-100#External_links, External Links section. This is an alphabetical list, and not a ranked list. Name Symbol #Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings AAWW #Arkansas Best Corporation ABFS #Air T, Inc. AIRT #Allegiant Travel Company ALGT #Air Transp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitalization-weighted Index
A capitalization-weighted (or cap-weighted) index, also called a market-value-weighted index is a stock market index whose components are weighted according to the total market value of their outstanding shares. Every day an individual stock's price changes and thereby changes a stock index's value. The impact that individual stock's price change has on the index is proportional to the company's overall market value (the share price multiplied by the number of outstanding shares), in a capitalization-weighted index. In other types of indices, different ratios are used. For example, the AMEX Composite Index (XAX) had more than 800 component stocks. The weighting of each stock constantly shifted with changes in the stock's price and the number of shares outstanding. The index fluctuates in line with the price move of the stocks. Stock market indices are a type of economic index. Free-float weighting A common version of capitalization weighting is the ''free-float'' weighting. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |