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Because: The "reason" column notes are different for the Add(s) and the Removed(s). Entries / events on each line are (almost) NEVER related to each other.
I don't understand how it can be a single joined table! 68.111.65.18 ( talk) 19:47, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
I just wanted to draw attention and comment to on a draft poll to determine naming convention for companies and businesses. I have looked around a number of places and have only seen comments to the effect of "we should have a convention" or "do we have a convention" on how to name a XXX company. This has either the effect of drawing a few uninterested comments or a stirring up a heated debate. In either case the net result is generally zero. Your comments to help clarify this poll and later corresponding vote would be greatly appreciated. -- Reflex Reaction ( talk)• 17:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Voting has begun and will continue until March 5. Please resolve this lagging issue. -- Reflex Reaction ( talk)• 22:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Can you please not edit the S&P 500 Component Stocks table headers! There are lots of scripts that read the headers as they are. Why would be change from "Ticker symbol" to "Symbol"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:1F80:7B00:BDE1:8C5E:477D:EC20 ( talk) 19:43, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Please do not edit the text of the listing. This is the list as it comes from S&P. Please make redirects for companies better known by other names instead of editing their listing. This enables easier updates from the S&P list. Thanks. -- ChrisRuvolo 00:49, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The listing includes "Phelps Dodge" which is not a component of the S&P per the newest list. Looking on the list and it was one of the additions and subtractions to the list. Just eyeballing the list, it looks like there have been 20 or so deletions and additions since the list was last updated (see http://www2.standardandpoors.com/portal/site/sp/en/us/page.topic/indices_500/2,3,2,2,0,2,4,2007,0,3,1,0,1,50,0,0.html .
Would simply linking to the S&P's resource be better? It seems like the list of companies in the S&P changes each month, so someone would need to update the list on a monthly basis if we want it to be accurate.
Trompelamort ( talk) 13:32, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
I am reviewing all entries in the list, and found out that the ticker for Albertsons Companies, Inc. is ACI, not ABS ( [1]). I would like to correct it, but this would be my first Wikipedia edition, plus there is this warning to avoid edit text of listing. I am unsure how to proceed. Jmgonet ( talk) 17:11, 24 May 2021 (UTC)jmgonet
There is also a category ( Category:S&P 500). Is there any desire to keep that synced with this list? -- Bovineone 06:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Updated 6 March 2007:
Company | Ticker symbol | SEC filings | Industry |
---|---|---|---|
Applera Corp-Applied Biosystems Group | ABI | reports | Life Sciences Tools & Services |
Archstone-Smith Trust | ASN | reports | Residential REITs |
BJ Services | BJS | reports | Oil & Gas Equipment & Services |
Bard (C.R.) Inc. | BCR | reports | Health Care Equipment |
Century Telephone | CTL | reports | Integrated Telecommunication Services |
Equity Residential | EQR | reports | Residential REITs |
Hudson City Bancorp | HCBK | reports | Thrifts & Mortgage Finance |
Kimco Realty | KIM | reports | Retail REITs |
Laboratory Corp. of America Holding | LH | reports | Health Care Services |
Millipore Corp. | MIL | reports | Life Sciences Tools & Services |
Noble Corporation | NE | reports | Oil & Gas Drilling |
Pinnacle West Capital | PNW | reports | Electric Utilities |
Questar Corp. | STR | reports | Gas Utilities |
Spectra Energy Corp. | SE | reports | Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation |
Zions Bancorp | ZION | reports | Regional Banks |
-- A. B. (talk) 15:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Someone has deleted the entry for
Robert Half International - how do we revive the article?
164.67.237.253 (
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Yesterday, I replaced the existing list with the 1 March 2007 list of S&P 500 constituents from the Standard and Poor's website. While I was at it, I also added ticker symbols, each company's industry (as listed by S&P) and links to each company's filings at www.sec.gov. I created new redirects for companies whose article names did not match the names S&P used. I also made sure each company was listed in Category:S&P 500.
The convention observed previously with this article has been to use exactly the S&P nomenclature, which I have done, however I think we may want to rethink a few:
Perhaps these types of situations might be best handled with footnotes, for example:
What do others think? (And does anyone have any problems with the expanded information I added yesterday?) -- A. B. (talk) 16:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
a summary count of components by sector (i.e. financials, vs industrials etc)
How about we add another column for GICS codes? This is basic encyclopedic information useful for anyone in business. 164.67.237.253 ( talk) 23:44, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
UnitedStatesian, I'd like to revert your most recent edits that change the symbol templates. They introduce "NYSE:" and "NASDAQ:" before the symbol, which makes the column unsortable, more important here than explicitly mentioning the exchange, I think. In fact, the two templates I had added were ones that I had just made for this purpose: they can be easily changed to exclude the categories, if you think that's a problem. Comments? Whiskeydog ( talk) 20:09, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
(outdent) You may want to contact User:A. B.; I think they made an automated update to this list a while back, and may have a tips or two. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 01:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
I found that two of the links from stock symbols to NYSE's web site do not work:
BRK.B (Berkshire Hathaway) links to " http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/brk.b.html" but should link to " http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/brkb.html".
BF.B (Brown-Forman Corp.) links to " http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/bf.b.html" but should link to " http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/bfb.html".
These links can be verified by clicking on them.
The link for VIA.B (Viacom) works but the symbol is incorrect. The symbol is currently "VIAb" but should be "VIA.B". This can be verified by clicking on http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/viab.html.
Davidlevner ( talk) 06:22, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
I've been looking at back history, and see a lot of cases where an individual stock was added or removed by itself (instead of as a AAA-replaces-BBB), or cases where an addition and a removal were put in, but where those two were totally unrelated. Also, I've noticed that given many unrelated edits (fixing links,grammar, etc), it's not easy to determine whether a given change to the index has been recorded here in the table or not.
Aiming to make those better, I've put in a table of recent changes, and filled it with the last 2 years of component changes. I also added some comments to the body of the file, above both tables, requesting of editors that if they're going to change the tables, that they make sure that they record both the addition and the deletion, and also put an entry in the changes table.
My thinking is, this will help us to make sure we record changes accurately, and it will also help in terms of keeping the table up to date since we'll be keeping a good record of whether a given change to the index has been reflected here or not.
Not trying to be authoritarian, just putting in my suggestion of one way we might be able to reduce the management overhead of keeping the table up to date, by keeping a record of what's already been done.
Suggestions or comments welcome. Cheers, Twredfish ( talk) 21:05, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding dates in the "Date first added" (rightmost) column of the main table as well as those in the "Date" (leftmost) column of the "Recent changes ..." table, I have been following the convention of using the first trading date on which the new company was part of the S&P 500 Index calculation. The rationale is that this would be the most useful date for anyone trying to track when a company's stock price first impacted the index.
An alternative convention would be to use the date quoted in S&P press releases as to when the switch occurs following the close of trading, i.e., the prior trading date. This is the date currently listed in the two most recent entries in the "Recent changes ..." table.
To our most respected fellow maintainer UnitedStatesian, if you concur that the convention I have been following is the most useful, then (with your permission) I would like to modify the ABBV date to be 1/2/2013 and the DLPH date to be 12/24/2012 in order to maintain consistency with the other index updates in 2012.
Otherwise, if the alternative convention (or some other one) is preferable, then I would be happy to adopt that practice for all my future revisions.
Probably most people don't care, but I admit to having an obsession with consistency. :-)
Cheers. - ErniePetrides ( talk) 08:42, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Since there has been no discussion about this in the past three weeks, I've gone ahead and tweaked the two dates (as I had proposed above) in my WPI/ACT update to the main article today.
Cheers. - ErniePetrides ( talk) 00:35, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
The URL for the Standard & Poors "S&P-500 Constituent List" is:
http://www.standardandpoors.com/prot/spf/docs/indices/SPUSA-500-USDUF--P-US-L--Constituents.xls
One must be logged into a (free) "registered user" account to access the list.
Cheers. - ErniePetrides ( talk) 05:23, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the data at the link posted above is no longer being updated. The last update was on 19-Jun-2013 (two weeks ago), whereas it used to be updated at the end of every business day (at least the imbedded date would be changed even when the constituent list remained the same). It appears that the folks at Standard & Poors have no interest in providing us with the current constituent list (on a daily basis) via any Web-accessible means.
Cheers. - ErniePetrides ( talk) 05:06, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
That is about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imougy ( talk • contribs) 00:09, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Although there are 501 "rows" in the table counting the initial one for the column headers, there are exactly 500 company entries in the list. ErniePetrides ( talk) 06:17, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
The entry currently lists FOXA as being added to replace APOL whereas it was NWSAV (now NWSA) as per the S&P document linked in the citation.
Cheers, TS — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheSeatonian ( talk • contribs) 12:34, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
By my count there are 502 entries in the grid; something is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.173.98.196 ( talk) 14:40, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
As per the announcement linked, Allergan (AGN) was de-listed and replaced by AAL. However, AGN is still present in the main list. Removing it will reduce the total number to 501, I think. Cheers, TheSeatonian ( talk) 08:54, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
It's a S&P 500 company according this Wiki page: /info/en/?search=Gannett_Company
This list is currently at 504 instead of 505. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.171.157.164 ( talk) 22:11, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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Different news agencies use different ways to categorize symbols that have multiple listed share classes.
Taking Berkshire Hathaway B shares as an example, Yahoo lists these as BRK-B and Google lists them as BRK.B. Which method should this table use?
I think a good policy is to follow the example of the exchange the symbol is listed on. Berkshire Hathaway is listed on the NYSE.
Here is the NYSE page for Berkshire Hathaway B shares: https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:BRK.B
Therefore this list should use BRK.B
Ditto Brown Foreman B shares. See https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:BF.B
Therefore I will try to undo the recent changes to these symbols by 110.174.83.231. I hope this is OK.
-- TheoA ( talk) 00:22, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Missing an official source for S&P 500 component stocks list. The official page http://us.spindices.com/indices/equity/sp-500 only shows "Top 10 By Index Weight" (link "Constituents" in the center-right frame).
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I assume the maintenance tag indicates someone has issue with the links in the main table to 1) each company's stock exchange page and 2) each company's SEC filings. Since these 1) have been here for a long time, 2) the exchange links are consistent with every other index list in WP, and 3) make the list much more useful to readers, I do not see any issue. Could anyone who does have an issue please elaborate further (rather than blindly citing WP:EL)? UnitedStatesian ( talk) 14:31, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
I think there are good arguments to have the "security" listed first, rather than leading the table with the external link ticker template. Accordingly, I am going to reorder them; may take a few edits to do all 500, so I am going to tag with {{ In use}}. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 15:33, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
Could you please stop changing the headers of the table! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.66.62.111 ( talk) 20:14, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
the table headers are broken. it looks like somebody made mistake formatting it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.107.215.251 ( talk) 21:10, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/e74243e5-f8e4-365f-9cf2-8eb7bb58c33e/baker-hughes-name-change.html
Baker Hughes has a new name once again. The change from Baker Hughes, A GE Company, to simply Baker Hughes Co. became effective Oct. 17, according to a press release. The company's ticker symbol — currently "BHGE" — will change to "BKR" on Oct. 18.
2600:6C55:6300:1CB1:0:0:0:C12 ( talk) 18:08, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
I have just discovered that an edit ( Special:diff/846514700) was made on this article on June 19, 2018 by my account, which has deleted a vast portion of this article. I do not recognize this edit, nor do I have any reason to vandalize this article. I suspect it was possibly executed by someone else who had somehow managed to log into my account. I offer my sincere apologies for this edit, and I would like to thank User:Bamyers99 for reverting this edit. -- lssrn | talk 20:23, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
There are 12 companies that are currently in both the List of S&P 500 companies and the List of S&P 400 companies:
ATO Atmos Energy -- BIO Bio-Rad Laboratories -- CTLT Catalent -- DPZ Domino's Pizza -- ETSY Etsy -- POOL Pool Corporation -- ROL Rollins Inc. -- TDY Teledyne Technologies -- TER Teradyne -- TYL Tyler Technologies -- WRB W.R. Berkley Corporation -- WST West Pharmaceutical Services
They should be in one or the other, I think. I don't have the definitive source lists, so I don't know which should be deleted from one of these lists.
After deleting them, there most-likely will be missing ones that are in the source lists from one or both of these lists. I'm guessing there should be 500 and 400 in each.
Also, there was a transaction this year whereby CZR and ERI in the List of S&P 400 companies now point to the same company at the SEC: Caesars Entertainment, Inc. So, something is probably wrong.
Frannegan ( talk) 08:28, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
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I have been using a third party derivation of this page in developing a trading algorithm. The requirement, however, extends to being able to retrieve the constituents on any given day. Should we have a way of recording ticker changes in order to facilitate this? Andydoc1 ( talk) 08:39, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
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In the table of Selected changes to the list of S&P 500 components there are two missing changes: LB to BBWI, and COG to CTRA. YYwiki ( talk) 08:52, 7 October 2021 (UTC)