US Stock Market Indices

Interpretation

The chart above compares the performance of different US stock market indices.
The Dow Jones is a stock index that includes 30 large publicly traded companies based in the United States.
The S&P 500 consists of 500 large US companies.
The Wilshire 5000 is the broadest of all listed indices on this page. It measures the performance of all U.S. equity securities with readily available price data.
The Nasdaq Composite tracks the performance of all common equities listed on the NASDAQ stock market exchange.
The Nasdaq 100 is a subset of the NASDAQ Composite and includes its largest 100 companies.

Data Sources

• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: S&P 500
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Yahoo Finance: FT Wilshire 5000 Index
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: NASDAQ Composite Index
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: NASDAQ 100 Index

Further Information

• Longermtrends: Large-cap vs. Small-cap Stocks
• Longermtrends: Growth vs. Value Stocks
• Investopedia: Dow Jones Industrial Average - DJIA
• Investopedia: Standard & Poor's 500 Index - S&P 500
• Investopedia: Nasdaq Composite Index
• Investopedia: Nasdaq 100 Index