Market Indices, Investment Fund PE-Ratio, S&P-500 Sectors

Market Indexes, PE-ratio of mutual funds, S&P-500 sectors

Stock Market Indices

A market index is a numerical measure calculated based on a selected company basket.

The most popular stock indices (the tickers are in parentheses):

• S&P-500 (^GSPC) represents the 500+ companies with the largest market cap listed on the American stock exchanges.
• Dow Jones (^DJI) represents the 30 largest companies.
• Russell-1000 (^RUI) represents the 1000 largest companies traded on the US exchanges.
• Russell-3000 (^RUA) represents the 3000 largest companies.
• NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC) represents all (2500+) companies listed on the NASDAQ exchange.
• NASDAQ-100 (^NDX) represents the 100 largest companies listed on the NASDAQ exchange.
• US Total Market represents 3000+ largest companies traded on the US exchanges. More precisely, it is a family of indices that track the behavior of the entire market. For example, Russell-3000 is one such index.

What is Russell-2000?

• Russell 2000 (^RUT) represents the 2000 companies followed by the first 1000…