The UBS 100 Index is a Swiss
share index
In finance, a stock index, or stock market index, is an index that measures a stock market, or a subset of the stock market, that helps investors compare current stock price levels with past prices to calculate market performance.
Two of the pri ...
launched in April 1987. It tracks the 100 Swiss companies with the largest
market capitalization
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
Market capitalization is equal to the market price per common share multiplied by t ...
s that are listed on the
SIX Swiss stock exchange. In 2022, the UBS 100 Index covered 98% of the publicly traded shares of Swiss companies, measured by free-float market capitalization.
In April 1987, the UBS 100 Index began at 1000 points. On 16th September 2022, the index registered at 640 points,
[ and the three largest constituents (]Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. (; ; ) is a Switzerland, Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other me ...
, Novartis
Novartis AG is a Swiss-American multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland and
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (global research).name="novartis.com">https://www.novartis.com/research-development/research-loc ...
and Roche
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, commonly known as Roche, is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on the SIX S ...
) made up 48.83% of the assets of an ETF that tracks the index.
References
Swiss stock market indices
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