{"id":457,"date":"2010-04-19T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-04-19T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:48:16","slug":"stocks-in-dow-jones-industrial-average-and-dow-jones-transportation-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/investing\/stocks-in-dow-jones-industrial-average-and-dow-jones-transportation-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks In Dow Jones Industrial Average and Dow Jones Transportation Average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones Indexes publishes lot of averages and indexes. They are best known for the Dow Jones\u00a0Industrial Average and the Down Jones Transportation Average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\">Personal financial planning<\/a> on FinanceGourmet.com<\/p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average is featured on most stock market news reports and makes an appearance on the nightly news. It is often referred to as just The Dow, or Dow Jones. The Dow Jones Index is composed of the stocks of 30 big U.S. companies which are supposed to represent the majority of the US economy and industry, with the exception of the transportation industry; they have their own index.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dow Jones Industrial Average Components<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Companies In the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/em><br \/>\n3M Company (MMM)<br \/>\nAlcoa Inc (AA)<br \/>\nAmerican Express (AXP)<br \/>\nAT&amp;T (T)<br \/>\nBank of America (BAC)<br \/>\nBoeing (BA)<br \/>\nCaterpillar (CAT)<br \/>\nChevron (CVX)<br \/>\nCisco (CSCO)<br \/>\nCoca-Cola (KO)<br \/>\ndu Pont (DD)<br \/>\nExxon Mobile (XOM)<br \/>\nGeneral Electric (GE)<br \/>\nHewlett-Packard (HPQ)<br \/>\nHome Depot (HD)<br \/>\nIntel (INTC)<br \/>\nIBM (IBM)<br \/>\nJohnson &amp; Johnson (JNJ)<br \/>\nJPMorgan Chase (JPM)<br \/>\nKraft Foods (KFT)<br \/>\nMcDonald&#8217;s Corp (MCD)<br \/>\nMerck &amp; Co (MRK)<br \/>\nMicrosoft (MSFT)<br \/>\nPfizer (PFE)<br \/>\nProcter &amp; Gamble (PG)<br \/>\nTravelers Companies (TRV)<br \/>\nUnited Technologies Corporation (UTX)<br \/>\nVerizon Communications (VZ)<br \/>\nWal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT)<br \/>\nWalt Disney Company (DIS)<\/p>\n<p>Dow Jones Transportation Average is composed of companies from the transportation industry. The idea is that if American business is making and selling goods, someone else is making money by getting them from Point A to Point B. Of course, with declining manufacturing influence and an increasingly prevalent service economy, that theory might hold less weight. However, some would point to increasing travel as representative of additional service, although this discounts the impact of technologies like conference calls, emails and social networking on providing quality service to customers and clients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/\">Personal finance tips<\/a> from FinanceGourmet blog<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stocks In the Dow Jones Transportation Average<\/strong><br \/>\nAMR Corp (AMR)<br \/>\nCH Robinson Worldwide (CHRW)<br \/>\nCon-Way Inc (CNW)<br \/>\nContinental Airlines (CAL)<br \/>\nCSX Corp (CSX)<br \/>\nDelta Airlines (DAL)<br \/>\nExpeditors International (EXPD)<br \/>\nFedex Corp (FDX)<br \/>\nGATX Corp (GMT)<br \/>\nJB Hunt Transportation Services (JBHT)<br \/>\nJetBlue Airways (JBLU)<br \/>\nKansas City Southern (KSU)<br \/>\nLandstar System (LSTR)<br \/>\nNorfolk Southern Corp (NSC)<br \/>\nOverseas Shipholding Group (OSG)<br \/>\nRyder System Inc (R)<br \/>\nSouthwest Airlines (LUV)<br \/>\nUnion Pacific (UNP)<br \/>\nUnited Parcel Service (UPS)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesser Known Dow Jones Averages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There area handful of other Dow Jones Averages. Most of them are calculated by taking predefined\u00a0subsets of either the Dow Jones Industrial index or the Dow Jones Transportation index.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dow Jones Utility Averag<\/strong>e &#8211; Tracks the performance of utility stocks associated with the generation\u00a0and delivery of energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Global Dow<\/strong> &#8211; Tracks 150 worldwide stocks to track the global economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dow 10<\/strong> &#8211; Made up of the 10 stocks from the Dow Jones Industrial with the highest dividend yield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dow 5<\/strong> &#8211; The 5 lowest priced stocks from The Dow 10 Average.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dow Jones High Yield Select 10 Index<\/strong> &#8211; The 10 stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial average that have\u00a0the biggest indicated dividend yield on an annual basis.<\/p>\n<p><em>What other stock indexes or market averages do you follow?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones Indexes publishes lot of averages and indexes. They are best known for the Dow Jones\u00a0Industrial Average and the Down Jones Transportation Average. Personal financial planning on FinanceGourmet.com The Dow Jones Industrial Average is featured on most stock market news reports and makes an appearance on the nightly news. It is often referred to as just The Dow, or Dow Jones. The Dow Jones Index is composed of the stocks of 30 big U.S. companies which are supposed to represent the majority of the US economy and industry, with the exception of the transportation industry; they have their own index. Dow Jones Industrial Average Components The Companies In the Dow Jones Industrial Average 3M Company (MMM) Alcoa Inc (AA) American Express (AXP) AT&amp;T (T) Bank of America (BAC) Boeing (BA) Caterpillar (CAT) Chevron (CVX) Cisco (CSCO) Coca-Cola (KO) du Pont (DD) Exxon Mobile (XOM) General Electric (GE) Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) Home Depot (HD) Intel (INTC) IBM (IBM) Johnson &amp; Johnson (JNJ) JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Kraft Foods (KFT) McDonald&#8217;s Corp (MCD) Merck &amp; Co (MRK) Microsoft (MSFT) Pfizer (PFE) Procter &amp; Gamble (PG) Travelers Companies (TRV) United Technologies Corporation (UTX) Verizon Communications (VZ) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 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