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The Original Stocks in the S&P 500 Index
By JLP | November 17, 2008
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that I found this list in the Appendix of Jeremy Siegel’s The Future for Investors
Here is the list of the original stocks in the S&P 500 Index, which began it’s existence as a 500-stock index on March 4, 1957.
Some interesting findings:
12 – Sugar Companies
4 – Cigar Companies (at least there are 4 companies with the word “Cigar” in their name)
Some companies like Cream of Wheat that are now just brands of a larger company.
The Original S&P 500 Index:
- Philip Morris
- Thatcher Glass
- National Can
- Dr Pepper
- Lane Bryant
- Warner-Lambert
- General Foods
- Abbot Labs
- Celanese
- Bristol-Myers
- Columbia Pictures
- Sweets Co.
- American Chicle
- Pfizer
- Coca-Cola
- California Packing Corp
- Merck
- Lorillard
- National Dairy Products
- Standard Brands
- Richardson Merrell
- Houdaille Industries
- Reeves Brothers
- R.H. Macy
- Stokely-Van Camp
- PepsiCo
- McCall
- Colgate-Palmolive
- R.J. Reynolds Industries
- Crane Co.
- Consolidated Cigar
- Penick & Ford
- Bestfoods
- Paramount Pictures
- General Cigars
- Virginia Carolina Chemical
- Congoleum-Nairn
- Truax-Traer Coal
- American Agricultural Chemical
- Amalgamated Sugar
- Heinz
- Corn Products
- Wrigley
- American Tobacco
- Electric Auto-Lite
- Bohn Aluminum & Brass
- Flintkote
- Quaker Oats
- Gulf Mobile & Ohio RR
- Kroger
- Schering
- Container Corp. of America
- Procter & Gamble
- Swift
- Hershey Foods
- Norwich Pharmacal
- American Broadcasting Co.
- Storer Broadcasting
- Royal Crown Cola
- Spiegel
- Wesson Oil
- Howmet
- American Home Products
- Chicago Pneumatic Tool
- Safeway Stores
- C.I.T. Financial
- Merganthaler Linotype
- Elliot co.
- Sunshine Biscuits
- Columbia Broadcasting
- Royal Dutch Petroleum
- Mohasco Industries
- Texas Gulf Sulphur
- Amstar
- General Mills
- Beechnut Life Saver
- McGraw-Hill
- Consolidation Coal
- Dixie Cup
- Melville Shoe
- Magnavox
- Kayser Roth
- Worthington
- National Buscuit
- Marathon
- Amsted Industries
- Shell Oil
- Masonite
- Canada Dry
- Socony Vacuum Oil
- Beatrice Foods
- Motorola
- American Can
- Daystrom Inc.
- Hall Printing
- North American Aviation
- Cannon Mills
- RCA
- Parke Davis
- Miami Cooper
- Equitable Gas
- Cream of Wheat
- Standard Oil of Indiana
- Bayuk Cigars
- Associated Dry Goods
- Borg Warner
- ACF industries
- Deere
- United Electric Coal
- Household Finance
- Rockwell Standard
- Pitney Bowes
- Kimberly-Clark
- Otis Elevator
- Twentieth-Century-Fox
- Tidewater Oil
- ArcherDaniels-Midland
- Spencer Kellogg
- American Standard
- Standard Oil of New Jersey
- Beneficial
- Columbian Carbon
- Eaton
- Consolidated Natural Gas
- American Brake Shoe
- Bliss EW
- Cutler-Hammer
- Montgomery Ward
- Southern Pacific
- Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing
- Marshall Field
- National Gypsum
- Continental Oil
- Boeing
- Admiral
- Martin-Marietta
- Yale & Towne
- General Electric
- Associates Investments
- Crucible Steel
- Gulf Oil
- Denver Rio Grande
- American Crystal Sugar
- Atlantic Richfield
- Continental Can
- St. Louis-San Francisco
- Illinois Central RR
- Gimbel Brothers
- Westinhouse Air Brake
- American Stores
- Pullman
- Square D
- Beckman Instruments
- International Business machines
- South Puerto Rico Sugar
- United Aircraft
- Firth Carpet
- Monsanto Chemical
- Scovill Manufacturing
- Raytheon
- Armour Co.
- Condé Naste
- Mack Truck
- Consolidated Edison
- Schenley Industries
- Laclede Gas
- International Telephone & Telegraph
- Texas Gulf Producing
- Foremost Dairies
- Ford Motor
- Studebaker Packard
- Moore McCormack Resources
- Standard Oil of California
- American Cyanamid
- Brooklyn Union Gas
- Campbell Soup
- Ruberoid
- American Enka
- Bath Iron Works
- Clevite Corp.
- Peoples Gas Light Coke
- Diamond T Motor Car
- Cooper Industries
- Crown Cork & Seal
- Florida Power
- Bendix
- Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe
- Sears Roebuck
- Cities Service
- Oklahoma Natural Gas
- Mercantile Stores
- Southern Railway
- Gardner-Denver
- Emerson Radio & Phonograph
- Federal Paper Board
- Missouri Pacific
- May Department Stores
- Intertype
- Peninsular Telephone
- Jacob Ruppert
- Texas Pacific Coal & Oil
- Continental Baking
- Washington Gas Light
- Harris Seybold
- Southern
- New England Electric System
- Pittsburgh Plate Glass
- Liggett Group
- Combustion Engineering
- Texas Co.
- Baltimore Gas & Electric
- Alco Products
- Public Service Electric and Gas
- Dayton Power & Light
- Olin
- Philco
- Seaboard Oil
- Cincinnati Gas & Electric
- Phillips Petroleum
- Celotex
- Union Pacific Railroad
- Philadelphia Electric
- Cuneo Press
- Servel
- Smith-Douglass
- Virgina Electric
- General Telephone & Electric
- Sylvania Electric Products
- Union Oil of California
- Dow Chemical
- Freeport Sulphur
- General Dynamics
- Great Northern
- New York, Chicago & St. Louis
- Caterpillar Tractor Inc.
- Grand Union
- United Biscuit of America
- American Telephone & Telegraph
- Wayne Pump
- McGraw Edison
- Sinclair Oil
- Mississipp River
- Brown Group
- Northern Pacific
- St. Joseph Lead
- American Natural Gas
- Middle South Utilities
- New York State Electric & Gas
- Dome Mines
- Magma Copper
- Southern California Edison
- Union Bag Camp Paper
- Jewel Tea
- Waukesha Motors
- Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
- Union Carbide & Carbon
- Beaunit
- Lerner Stores
- Deleware Power & Light
- Fajardo Sugar
- Northern States Power Minn.
- General Signal
- Sterling Drug
- Lockheed Aircraft
- Commonwealth Edison
- Panhandle Eastern
- Reliance Manufacturing
- Ingersoll-Rand
- Kennecott Copper
- International Minerals & Chemicals
- Winn-Dixie Stores
- Air Reduction
- Endicott Johnson
- Borden
- Scott Paper
- Louisville & Nashville
- Centeral & South West
- Dana
- United States Lines
- Industrial Rayon
- Bond Stores
- Detriot Edison
- CNW (Chicago & North Western)
- Clark Equipment
- Central Aguirre Sugar
- Mead
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- United Gas
- Cerro De Pasco
- Coumbia Gas System
- McCrory Stores
- Atlantic Coast Line
- Becor Western
- United States Gypsum
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
- St. Regis
- Westinghouse Electric
- Seaboard Finance
- National Sugar Refining
- Halliburton
- United States Rubber
- Anaconda Copper Mining
- Acme Cleveland
- Curtis Publishing
- Thompson Products
- Libbey-Ownens-Ford
- General Cable
- Westvaco Corp.
- Cleveland Elec. Illuminating
- General Public Utilities
- American Gas & Electric
- Divco Wayne
- Pacific Enterprises
- Curtiss-Wright
- Lowenstein & Sons
- McIntyre Porcupine
- Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Pacfic
- National Cash Register
- Duquesne Light
- West Penn Electric
- Link Belt
- DWG Cigars
- Cuban American Sugar
- W. R. Grace
- American Zinc Lead & Smelting
- Dresser Industries
- American Machine & Foundry
- J.C. Penney
- E.I. DuPont de Nemours
- General Motors
- National Dist. & Chem
- Owens Illinios Glass
- Ward Baking
- H.L. Green
- Bridgeport Brass
- F.W. Woolworth
- Corning Glassworks
- El Paso Natural Gas
- Marquette Cement Manufacturing
- Sutherland Paper
- Aluminum Company of America
- Phelps Dodge
- Bullard Co.
- Blaw Knox
- Universal Pictures
- Eastman Kodak
- Texas Utilities
- American Bakeries
- Chrysler
- Libby, McNeill & Libby
- Commercial Solvents
- General Portland Cement
- National Lead
- International Paper
- Jefferson Lake Sulphur
- Douglas Aircraft
- Allied Chemical & Dye
- Lilly Tulip
- Indianapolis Power & Light
- Climax Molybdenum
- Anaconda Wire & Cable
- Firestone Tire & Rubber
- Baltimore & Ohio
- Island Creek Coal
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- American Metal Climax
- Chicago R.I. & Pacific
- Niagara Mohawk Power
- Oliver
- Dayton Rubber
- General Finance
- National Tea
- Aluminum
- Homestake Mining
- Champion Power
- Hercules Motors
- Reed Roller Bit
- Walker Hiram Goooderham & Worts
- Southern Natural Gas
- American Chain & Cable
- First National Stores
- Lehigh Portland Cement
- Revere Copper & Brass
- J.J. Newberry
- Erie Railroad
- General Host
- Reynolds Metal
- Hercules Powder
- Cudahy Packing
- Chain Belt Co.
- Royal McBee
- Fruehauf Trailer Corp.
- Falstaff Brewing
- Amerada Petroleum
- Burroughs
- Crown Zellerbach
- American Motors
- Goodrich
- Briggs Manufacturing
- American Airlines
- Alpha Portland Industries
- Illinois Power
- American Smetling & Refining
- Babcock & Wilcox
- Case (Ji)
- Enserch
- International Nickel Co. CDA
- U S Steel
- Copper Range
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber
- Republic Aviation
- Bigelow-Sanford
- Sperry Rand
- Distillers Corp Seagram
- Motor Wheel
- Cincinnati Milling Machine
- Consumers Power
- Great Western Sugar
- Commercial Credit
- Foster Wheeler
- Diana Stores
- Vanadium
- Walworth Co.
- Dan River
- Pfeiffer Brewing
- Inland Street
- Munsingwear
- Genesco
- Pen-Dixie Industries
- Kaiser Aluminum
- Missouri-Kansas-Texas
- United Airlines
- Allied Supermarkets
- Armstrong Cork
- Inspiration Consolidated Copper
- Interantional Harvester
- Lone Star Industries
- S.H. Kress
- Kresge
- National Supply
- Armco Steel
- Allied Stores
- Owens Corning
- Federated Department Stores
- American Viscose
- Penn Central
- Manville
- Cone Mills
- New York Central
- Holland Furnace
- Nothern Natural Gas
- Food Fair Stores
- Van Raalte
- Stevens (JP)
- Aldens Inc.
- Cluett Peabody
- Trans World Airlines
- Jones & Laughlin Steel
- American Export Lines
- Lees & Sons
- Youngstown Sheet & Tube
- Warner Brothers
- Wilson Co.
- Burlington Industries
- Allis Chalmers
- Reading Co.
- Publicker Industries
- Family Finance
- Wheeling Steel Corp.
- Republic Pictures
- Bethlehem Steel
- Addressograph Multigraph
- American Shipbuilding
- Colorado Fuel & Iron
- Cornell-Dubilier
- Eagle Picher
- Eastern Airlines
- Goebel Brewing
- W.T. Grant
- Guantanamo Sugar
- Holly Sugar
- International Shoe
- Jaeger Machine
- Joy Manufacturing
- Manati Sugar
- Manhattan Shirt
- Monarch Machine Tool
- Minneapolis Moline
- G.C. Murphy
- National Steel
- New York, New Haven & Hartford
- Pan American World Airways
- Republic Steel
- Sunbeam
- Artloom Carpet
- U.S. Hoffman Machinery
- United States Smelting and Refining
- Vertientes-Camaguey Sugar
- White Motors
- Zenith Radio
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Topics: Investing, Miscellaneous | 2 Comments »
November 18th, 2008 at 11:47 am
There are several ways this could be interesting, first show the current 500 companies, and possibly find the ones that have stayed. Those might be the strong companies that are ones for long term investment outside of funds.
Is there any meaning to the order that it is currently in?
Like you pointed out, some of these are suprising that they were ever a sole company and not part of a bigger one.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:23 am
The S&P 500 stock market index, maintained by Standard & Poor’s, comprises 500 large-cap American companies covering about 75% of the American equity market by capitalization.
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