The Dow Jones Composite Average is the

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composed of 65 prominent companies traded on both exchanges, maintained and tracked by

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. The average's components include every stock from the

Dow Jones Industrial Average The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity inde ...

(30 components), the

Dow Jones Transportation Average The Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJTA, also called the "Dow Jones Transports") is a U.S. stock market index from S&P Dow Jones Indices of the transportation sector, and is the most widely recognized gauge of the American transportation sector. ...

(20), and the

Dow Jones Utility Average The Dow Jones Utility Average (DJUA, also known as the "Dow Jones Utilities") is a stock index from S&P Dow Jones Indices that tracks the performance of 15 prominent utility companies traded in the United States. Components , the current compo ...

(15).

Components

* 3M Co. (MMM) (conglomerates) * AES Corporation (The) (AES) (electric utilities) * Alaska Air Group, Inc. (ALK) (regional airlines) * American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL) (major airlines) * American Electric Power Co., Inc. (AEP) (electric utilities) * American Express Co. (AXP) (credit services) * American Water Works Company, Inc. (AWK) (water utilities) *

Amgen Inc. Amgen Inc. (formerly Applied Molecular Genetics Inc.) is an American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. One of the world's largest independent biotechnology companies, Amgen was established in T ...

(AMGN) ( drug manufacturers) *

Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company ...

(AAPL) (consumer goods) * Atmos Energy Corporation (ATO) (gas utilities) * Avis Budget Group, Inc. (CAR) (rental & leasing services) * Boeing Company (The) (BA) (aerospace & defense) *

Caterpillar Inc. Caterpillar Inc. (stock symbol CAT) is an American ''Fortune'' 500 corporation and the world's largest construction-equipment manufacturer. In 2018, Caterpillar was ranked number 65 on the ''Fortune'' 500 list and number 238 on the Global ''Fo ...

(CAT) (farm & construction equipment) * C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (CHRW) (air delivery & freight services) *

Chevron Corporation Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is headquartered in S ...

(CVX) (major integrated oil & gas) * Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) (computer networking) * Coca-Cola Company (The) (KO) (beverages) * Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED) (diversified utilities) * CSX Corp. (CSX) (railroads) * Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DAL) (major airlines) * Dominion Energy, Inc. (D) (electric utilities) *

Dow Inc. The Dow Chemical Company, officially Dow Inc., is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. The company is among the three largest chemical producers in the world. Dow manufactures plastics ...

(DOW) (chemicals) * Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) (electric utilities) *

Edison International Edison International is a public utility holding company based in Rosemead, California. Its subsidiaries include Southern California Edison, and unregulated non-utility business assets Edison Energy. Edison's roots trace back to Holt & Knu ...

(EIX) (electric utilities) * Exelon Corp. (EXC) (diversified utilities) *

Expeditors International Expeditors (Expeditors International of Washington) is an American worldwide logistics and freight forwarding company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Financial information Expeditors became a publicly traded company in 1984 with the listing ...

(EXPD) (air delivery & freight services) *

FedEx Corporation FedEx Corporation, formerly Federal Express Corporation and later FDX Corporation, is an American multinational conglomerate holding company focused on transportation, e-commerce and business services based in Memphis, Tennessee. The name "Fed ...

(FDX) (air delivery & freight services) *

FirstEnergy Corp. FirstEnergy Corp is an electric utility headquartered in Akron, Ohio. It was established when Ohio Edison acquired Centerior Energy in 1997. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in the distribution, transmission, and generation of electri ...

(FE) (electric utilities) * Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) (GS) (investment brokerage) * Home Depot, Inc. (The) (HD) (home improvement stores) *

Honeywell International Inc. Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance m ...

(HON) (conglomerates) *

Intel Corp. Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 series ...

(INTC) (semiconductors) * International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) (diversified computer systems) * JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT) (trucking) * JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) (regional airlines) * JPMorgan Chase and Co. (JPM) (money center banks) * Johnson & Johnson Inc. (JNJ) ( drug manufacturers) *

Kirby Corporation Kirby Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas is the largest tank barge operator in the United States, transporting bulk liquid products throughout the Mississippi River System, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, along all three U.S. Coasts ...

(KEX) (shipping) * Landstar System, Inc. (LSTR) (trucking) * Matson, Inc. (MATX) (shipping) *

McDonald's Corp. McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger ...

(MCD) (restaurants) * Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) ( drug manufacturers) *

Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

(MSFT) (application software) * NextEra Energy Inc. (NEE) (electric utilities) *

Nike, Inc. Nike, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services. The company is headquartered ne ...

(NKE) (apparel, footwear & accessories) * Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC) (railroads) * Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL) (trucking) * Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) (cleaning products) * Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. (PEG) (diversified utilities) * Ryder System, Inc. (R) (rental & leasing services) * salesforce.com, inc. (CRM) (application software) *

Sempra Energy Sempra is a North American energy infrastructure company based in San Diego, California. The company is one of the largest utility holding companies in the United States with roughly 40 million consumers. Sempra's focus is on electric and natura ...

(SRE) (Multi-Utilities) * Southern Company (The) (SO) (electric utilities) * Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) (regional airlines) * Travelers Companies, Inc. (The) (TRV) (insurance) *

Union Pacific Corporation The Union Pacific Corporation (Union Pacific) is a publicly traded railroad holding company. It was incorporated in Utah in 1969 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. It is the parent company of the current, Delaware-registered, form of the ...

(UNP) (railroads) *

United Airlines Holdings United Airlines Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as United Continental Holdings, Inc., UAL Corporation, Allegis Corporation and founded originally as UAL, Inc.) is a publicly traded airline holding company headquartered in the Willis Tower in Chica ...

(UAL) (major airlines) * United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) (air delivery & freight services) * UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) (health care plans) *

Verizon Communications Inc. Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in ...

(VZ) (telecom services) *

Visa Inc. Visa Inc. (; stylized as ''VISA'') is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world, most commonly through Visa-branded cred ...

(V) (credit services) * Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (WBA) (retailing) *

Walmart Inc. Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...

(WMT) (discount, variety stores) * Walt Disney Company (The) (DIS) (entertainment) * Xcel Energy Inc. (XEL) (electric utilities) (as of December 2021) The Dow Jones Composite Average is primarily made up of large

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stocks, with a few middle capitalization and small capitalization companies included. 45 of the 65 components of the average are traded on the

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, with the 20 others being traded on the

NASDAQ The Nasdaq Stock Market () (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Stock Market) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the US by volume, and ranked second ...

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