Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA $INDU

The DJIA is the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is the most watched equity index in the USA and the world. This equity index is a simple average of the prices of the 30 stocks in the index. This is often also referred to as a price weighted index. Compare this to the S&P500 equity index which is a value weighted index.

The DJIA is often referred to by its ticker symbol which is $INDU.

The components of the DJIA in January 2012 were:

MMM 3M Co. AA Alcoa Inc. AXP American Express Co. T AT&T BAC Bank of America BA Boeing Co. CAT Caterpillar Inc. CVX Chevron CSCO Cisco Systems Inc. KO Coca-Cola Co. DD E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. XOM Exxon Mobil GE General Electric Co. HPQ Hewlett-Packard HD Home Depot Inc. INTC Intel Corp. IBM International Business Machines Corp. JNJ Johnson & Johnson JPM JPMorgan Chase KFT Kraft Foods Inc. Cl A MCD McDonald's Corp. MRK Merck & Co. Inc. MSFT Microsoft Corp. PFE Pfizer Inc. PG Procter & Gamble Co. TRV Travelers Cos. UTX United Technologies Corp. VZ Verizon Communications WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc. DIS Walt Disney Co.