As of September 2021 Dow has a market cap of $44.68 Billion . This makes Dow the world’s 436th most valuable company by market cap according to our data.
The total stock market value is $95 trillion .
| Historical logarithmic graph of the DJIA from 1896 to 2011 | Foundation February 16, 1885 (as DJA) May 26, 1896 (as DJIA) | Constituents 30 | Type Large cap | Market cap US$10.84 trillion (as of July 30, 2021) |
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| S&P 500 Index from 1950 to 2016 | Foundation March 4, 1957 | Constituents 505 | Type Large-cap | Market cap US$38.2 trillion (as of June 30, 2021) |
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Market capitalization refers to the total dollar market value of a company’s outstanding shares. Colloquially called “market cap,” it is calculated by multiplying the total number of a company’s shares by the current market price of one share .
If the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s close above 10,000 last Monday left you bedazzled, consider this: the Dow at 120,368 in 2025. That’s what Roger G. Ibbotson forecasts. Skeptics may want to note that in 1974 the Yale University economist predicted that the Dow would hit 10,000 near the end of this year.
Abundance of venture capital
Money pouring into tech and internet company start-ups by venture capitalists and other investors was one of the major causes of the dotcom bubble. In addition, cheap funds obtainable through very low interest rates made capital easily accessible.
1) New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , US – $25.3T
It was established on May 17, 1792, and consists of 2,400 listed companies. It is the world’s largest stock exchange and has a market capitalization of US$ 25.3 trillion as of June 2021.
It is by far the world’s largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$30.1 trillion as of February 2018. The average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013 .
| Rank Country Year | 1 United States 2018 | 2 China 2018 | 3 Japan 2018 | 4 Hong Kong SAR, China 2018 |
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As of the spring of 2021, the largest cap stock in the S&P 500 (^GSPC) by weighting was Apple (AAPL), at over $2 trillion. The smallest cap stock was a Texas-based petroleum refiner called HollyFrontier Corporation (HFC) , with a market cap just short of $6 billion.
S&P 500, abbreviation of Standard and Poor’s 500 , in the United States, a stock market index that tracks 500 publicly traded domestic companies. It is considered by many investors to be the best overall measurement of American stock market performance.
Generally, market capitalization corresponds to a company’s stage in its business development. Typically, investments in large-cap stocks are considered more conservative than investments in small-cap or midcap stocks, potentially posing less risk in exchange for less aggressive growth potential.
| # Name C. | 1 Apple 1AAPL | 2 Microsoft 2MSFT | 3 Alphabet (Google) 3GOOG | 4 Saudi Aramco 42222.SR Arabia |
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Using market capitalization to show the size of a company is important because company size is a basic determinant of various characteristics in which investors are interested, including risk. It is also easy to calculate. A company with 20 million shares selling at $100 a share would have a market cap of $2 billion.
The Dow Will Be at 60,000 by 2030.
