Dow Jones Utility Average
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The Dow Jones Utility Average (also known as the "Dow Jones Utilities") is a stock index that keeps track of the performance of 15 prominent utility companies.
[edit] Components
The current components on the Dow Jones Utilities are as follows (company name followed by ticker symbol):
- AES Corp., The (AES) (conventional electricity)
- American Electric Power Co., Inc. (AEP) (conventional electricity)
- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP) (multiutilities)
- Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED) (conventional electricity)
- Dominion Resources, Inc. (D) (conventional electricity)
- Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) (multiutilities)
- Edison International (EIX) (conventional electricity)
- Exelon Corp. (EXC) (conventional electricity)
- FirstEnergy Corp. (FE) (conventional electricity)
- FPL Group Corp. (FPL) (conventional electricity)
- NiSource, Inc. (NI) (gas distribution)
- PG&E Corp. (PCG) (conventional electricity)
- Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. (PEG) (conventional electricity)
- Southern Company, Inc. (SO) (conventional electricity)
- Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) (pipelines)
The Dow Jones Utilities is a price-weighted average.
[edit] History
Was created in 1929 when all utility stocks were removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average
[edit] External links
- Yahoo! Finance page for ^DJU
- Bloomberg page for UTIL:IND
- Dow Jones Utility Average information
- Dow Jones Utilities Average - DJUA
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