MarketsSep 26, 2024
Coca-Cola Was Once The 10th Biggest Stock on the S&P 500
What We’re Showing
This graphic shows the top 10 stocks on the S&P 500 over several past decades. Data was accessed from Goldman Sach’s Global Strategy Paper (Sept. 5, 2024).
Key Takeaways
- The leaders of the S&P 500 have changed drastically since 1990
- Today's tech giants make up a larger share of the index than previous leading companies did
- Microsoft and ExxonMobil are the only companies in this graphic to appear at three different dates
Dataset
1990 | % of Index | 2000 | % of Index | |
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IBM | 2.9 | General Electric | 4.1 | |
Exxon Mobil | 2.9 | Exxon Mobil | 2.6 | |
General Electric | 2.3 | Pfizer | 2.5 | |
Philip Morris | 2.2 | Cisco Systems | 2.4 | |
Royal Dutch Shell | 1.9 | Citigroup | 2.2 | |
Bristo-Myers Squibb | 1.6 | Walmart | 2.0 | |
Merck & Co | 1.6 | Microsoft | 2.0 | |
Walmart | 1.6 | American International | 2.0 | |
AT&T | 1.5 | Merck & Co | 1.8 | |
Coca-Cola | 1.4 | Intel | 1.7 | |
2010 | % of Index | 2024 | % of Index | |
Exxon Mobil | 3.2 | Apple | 7.0 | |
Apple | 2.6 | Nvidia | 6.4 | |
Microsoft | 1.8 | Microsoft | 6.4 | |
General Electric | 1.7 | Alphabet | 6.2 | |
Chevron | 1.6 | Amazon | 3.8 | |
IBM | 1.6 | Meta | 2.4 | |
Procter & Gamble | 1.6 | Eli Lilly | 1.8 | |
AT&T | 1.5 | Broadcom | 1.6 | |
Johnson & Johnson | 1.5 | Tesla | 1.4 | |
JPMorgan Chase | 1.5 | JPMorgan Chase | 1.2 |
Data sources
By market cap on Dec 31
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