The Dow Jones Industrial Average – DJIA is a simple average marker of stocks price movement of the world’s 30 largest industrial corporations. But if some of the 30 companies adds stock split or the dividends split, the current divisor is reduced.
The Dow Jones Transportation Average - DJTA – is an average characterizing the dynamics of 20 transportation companies (aero, railway, road) stocks.
The Dow Jones Utility Average - DJUA – average of stocks options dynamics of 15 countries engaged in gas or electricity.
The Dow Jones Composite Average – DJCA is an average designed on the basis of industrial, transport and utilities averages - 65 companies.
The Dow Jones Average companies
• General Electric
• American Cotton Oil Company, Bestfoods, Unilever Group
• American Sugar Company, now Amstar Holdings
• American Tobacco Company
• Chicago Gas Company, bought by Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., now Peoples Energy Corporation
• Distilling & Cattle Feeding Company, now Millennium Chemicals
• Laclede Gas Light Company, now The Laclede Group
• National Lead Company, now NL Industries
• North American Company
• Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
• U.S. Leather Company
• U.S. Rubber Company
