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What would happen to the divisor of the Dow Jones Industrial Average with a current price of around 60 per share replaces with a current value of about 3 per share?
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What is the current divisor for the Dow Jones?
.122
What is Dow Jones index based upon?
This was a good question as it made me learn the answer myself! Here's the link from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average And here's an excerpt explaining the Index. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DJI, also called the DJIA, Dow 30, or informally the Dow industrials, the Dow Jones or The Dow) is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of the industrial component of America's stock markets. It is the oldest continuing U.S. market index, aside from the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which Dow also created. Today, the average consists of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States. The "industrial" portion of the name is largely historical—many of the 30 modern components have little to do with heavy industry. To compensate for the effects of stock splits and other adjustments, it is currently a scaled average, not the actual average of the prices of its component stocks—the sum of the component prices is divided by a divisor, which changes over time, to generate the value of the index.
Could you provide an example for sensex calculation?
Example (provided by rediff.com reader Munish Oberoi):Source: http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/feb/21bspec.htm Suppose the Index consists of only 2 stocks: Stock A and Stock B. Suppose company A has 1,000 shares in total, of which 200 are held by the promoters, so that only 800 shares are available for trading to the general public. These 800 shares are the so-called 'free-floating' shares. Similarly, company B has 2,000 shares in total, of which 1,000 are held by the promoters and the rest 1,000 are free-floating. Now suppose the current market price of stock A is Rs 120. Thus, the 'total' market capitalisation of company A is Rs 120,000 (1,000 x 120), but its free-float market capitalisation is Rs 96,000 (800 x 120). Similarly, suppose the current market price of stock B is Rs 200. The total market capitalisation of company B will thus be Rs 400,000 (2,000 x 200), but its free-float market cap is only Rs 200,000 (1,000 x 200). So as of today the market capitalisation of the index (i.e. stocks A and B) is Rs 520,000 (Rs 120,000 + Rs 400,000); while the free-float market capitalisation of the index is Rs 296,000. (Rs 96,000 + Rs 200,000). The year 1978-79 is considered the base year of the index with a value set to 100. What this means is that suppose at that time the market capitalisation of the stocks that comprised the index then was, say, 60,000 (remember at that time there may have been some other stocks in the index, not A and B, but that does not matter), then we assume that an index market cap of 60,000 is equal to an index-value of 100. Thus the value of the index today is = 296,000 x 100/60,000 = 493.33 This is how the Sensex is calculated. The factor 100/60000 is called index divisor.
How do you figure the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
The stock values of all 30 companies are added up and divided by 0.12283402, the new divisor.
What is the current divisor for the Dow Jones?
.122
What is the number that divided the dividend?
a divisor
How The Dow Jones Industrial Average Is Calculated?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DJI, also called the DJIA, Dow 30, INDP, or informally the Dow Jones or The Dow) is one of several stock market indices, created by nineteenth-century Wall Street Journaleditor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. It is an index that shows how certain stocks have traded. Dow compiled the index to gauge the performance of the industrial sector of the American stock market. It is the second-oldest U.S. market index, after the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which Dow also created. The average is computed from the stock prices of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States. The "industrial" portion of the name is largely historical-many of the 30 modern components have little to do with traditional heavy industry. The average is price-weighted. To compensate for the effects of stock splits and other adjustments, it is currently a scaled average, not the actual average of the prices of its component stocks-the sum of the component prices is divided by a divisor, which changes whenever one of the component stocks has a stock split or stock dividend, to generate the value of the index. Since the divisor is currently less than one, the value of the index is higher than the sum of the component prices. To calculate the DJIA, the sum of the prices of all 30 stocks is divided by a divisor, the DJIA divisor. The divisor is adjusted in case of splits, spinoffs or similar structural changes, to ensure that such events do not in themselves alter the numerical value of the DJIA. The initial divisor was the number of component companies, so that the DJIA was at first a simple arithmetic average; the present divisor, after many adjustments, is less than one (meaning the index is actually larger than the sum of the prices of the components). That is: : where p are the prices of the component stocks and d is the Dow Divisor. Events like stock splits or changes in the list of the companies composing the index alter the sum of the component prices. In these cases, in order to avoid discontinuity in the index, the Dow divisor is updated so that the quotations right before and after the event coincide: :The current value of the DJIA Divisor is 0.1255527090. This value is regularly published in the Wall Street Journal and is available on-line at the Chicago Board of Trade's web site.
A divisor of a number?
a divisor of a number
What is the reciprocal of the divisor?
It is 1/divisor.
What is the difference between a divisor and dividend?
Divisor: the number by which a dividend is divided Dividend: a number to be divided
Which is the dividend and which is the divisor?
Dividend : Divisor = Quotient
Witch is the divisor?
the divisor is the number your dividing into.
What is the divisor in division?
The divisor is the number your dividing by, for an example (345 divided 8), 8 is the divisor. For another example as (2348 divided by 56), 56 is the divisor.
Is divisor a synonym for multiple?
No. Divisor is the same as factor.
Is 10 a divisor of 10?
10 is a divisor of 10.
