Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)

Dow Jones Industrial Average is the stock index which shows the weighted average stock price of 30 largest corporations of the USA.

The companies entering the index

For March, 2020 stocks of the following companies are a part of the index:

• Boeing
• Goldman Sachs
• Apple
• McDonald's
• Home Depot
• United Technologies
• UnitedHealth Group
• Visa
• IBM
• Walt Disney
• American Express
• JPMorgan Chase
• Chevron
• Caterpillar
• Travelers
• Microsoft
• Nike
• 3M
• ExxonMobil (it is excluded in 2020)
• Dow
• Intel
• Johnson & Johnson
• Cisco
• Coca–Cola
• Merck
• Pfizer (it is excluded in 2020)
• Procter & Gamble
• Walgreens
• Verizon
• Walmart

History

2020

Salesforce and Honeywell are added to the index instead of ExxonMobil and Pfizer

In August, 2020 its oldest participant — the ExxonMobil oil company is excluded from the Dow Jones index of Industrial Average. It was included into this list since 1928.

Removal of Exxon will leave Dow only with one energy company — Chevron — and will strengthen domination in it the technology companies.

In addition to ExxonMobil, the index will be left by pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the supplier of arms of Raytheon. Pfizer was in the index since 2004, and Raytheon in 2020 completed merge to United Technologies which was a participant of the index since 1939.

The companies leaving the index will be replaced the supplier of the cloud software by Salesforce, biotechnology company Amgen and Honeywell conglomerate.

In recent years the players of Dow were changed extremely seldom. While Apple was added in 2015, and Nike and Goldman Sachs — in 2013, most the companies entering into Dow there were in the index more than 10 years.

One of the largest falls of the index in the history against the background of COVID-19 pandemic

From February 12 to March 17, 2020 during COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic the Dow index failed on 8314 points — one of the largest falling in the history.