Dow Jones Drops General Electric
In monday s announcement djia also dropped.
Dow jones drops general electric. S p dow jones indices announced on tuesday that the iconic maker of light bulbs and. The dow has announced one off changes over the past few years such as apple s replacement of at t in 2015 and walgreens boots alliance s replacement of general electric in 2018. New york afp slumping us industrial giant general electric will be booted from the prestigious dow jones stock index next week s p dow. The change announced tuesday.
The change announced tuesday. The struggling company is being dropped from the dow jones industrial average. General electric which is finally being dropped from the now 30 company stock index in favor of the parent company of the walgreens chain of pharmacies. For the first time in 110 years general electric will not be a member of the elite dow jones industrial average.
The company was replaced by walgreens boots alliance. General electric dropped from dow jones stock index. In 2018 boston based general electric co. Was dropped from djia after 111 years on the index.
General electric was once the world s most valuable company and since 1907 it had been contiguously a part of the often quoted yet small stock market gauge often simply referred to as the dow. Dow jones industrial average an index which tracks 30 large companies drops general electric and replaces it with walgreens. Specialist john mcnierney works at the post that handles general electric on the floor of the new york stock exchange in january. When the dow jones industrial average was created more than 120 years ago it included 12 companies.
Will drop out of the dow jones industrial average next week a milestone in the decline of a firm that once ranked among the mightiest of blue chips and was a pillar of the. Dow djia drops general electric ge posted.