The Russell Top 50 Index measures the performance of the largest companies in the
Russell 3000 Index
The Russell 3000 Index is a Capitalization-weighted index, capitalization-weighted stock market index that seeks to be a benchmarking, benchmark of the entire Stock markets in the United States, U.S stock market. It measures the performance of the ...
. It includes approximately 50 of the largest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership and represents approximately 40% of the total market capitalization of the Russell 3000.
The index, which was launched on January 1, 2005, is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. Its
ticker symbol
A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. In short, ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters ...
is ^RU50.
Investing
Prior to January 27, 2016, the index was tracked by an
exchange-traded fund
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of investment fund and exchange-traded product, i.e. they are traded on stock exchanges. ETFs are similar in many ways to mutual funds, except that ETFs are bought and sold from other owners throughout the ...
, the
Guggenheim Russell Top 50 Mega Cap ETF (). The ETF switched to the S&P 500 Top 50 Index.
Top 10 holdings
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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 ...
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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, Washingt ...
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Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economi ...
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Meta Platforms
Meta Platforms, Inc., (file no. 3835815) trade name, doing business as Meta and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns Facebo ...
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Alphabet Inc Cl A ()
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its main business and source of capital is insurance, from which it invests the float (the retained premiums) ...
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Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company i ...
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Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer hea ...
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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 ...
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(as of October 31, 2020)[{{cite web, url=https://research.ftserussell.com/Analytics/Factsheets/Home/DownloadSingleIssue?issueName=US5017USD&IsManual=true , title=Russell Top 50 Index factsheet]
Top sectors by weight
* Technology
* Consumer Discretionary
* Health Care
* Industrials
* Financials
See also
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S&P 100
The S&P 100 Index is a stock market index of United States stocks maintained by Standard & Poor's.
Index options on the S&P 100 are traded with the ticker symbol "OEX". Because of the popularity of these options, investors often refer to the ind ...
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Russell Investments
Russell Investments is an investment firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Corporate overview
According to ''American Banker'', Russell Investments has approximately $300 billion of assets under management, as of September 2019. The firm r ...
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Russell 2000 Index
The Russell 2000 Index is a small cap company , small-cap stock market index that makes up the smallest 2,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index. It was started by the Frank Russell Company in 1984. The index is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsi ...
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Russell 1000 Index
The Russell 1000 Index is a stock market index that tracks the highest-ranking 1,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index, which represent about 93% of the total market capitalization of that index. , the stocks of the Russell 1000 Index had a weighted ...
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Russell Top 200 Index
The Russell Top 200 Index measures the performance of the 200 largest companies (63% of total market capitalization) in the Russell 1000 Index, with a weighted average market capitalization of $186 billion. The median capighkm
talization is $48 ...
References
External links
Russell IndexesRussell Investment GroupIndex Construction and MethodologyYahoo! Finance page for ^RU50
American stock market indices