These 5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Make Up 28.8% of the Entire S&P 500 Index
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is home to 500 companies from 11 different sectors of the economy, making it the most diversified of the major U.S. stock market indexes.But the S&P is weighted by market capitalization, so the largest companies have a greater influence over its performance than the smallest. As of this writing, the following five companies have a combined market cap of $14.9 trillion, representing 28.8% of the entire value of the index:The S&P 500 delivered a return of 25% during 2024, whereas the S&P 500 Equal Weight index, which assigns the same weighting to every stock regardless of its market cap, was up by just 10%. The difference can be partly explained by the average gain of 61% in the preceding five stocks. Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool
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