Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a 30-company index of large, established US "blue-chip" firms — one of the oldest and most-quoted market benchmarks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), or simply "the Dow," is an index of 30 large, well-known US companies chosen to represent the broad economy. Created in 1896, it is one of the oldest stock indexes and remains a household reference for "how the market did today," even though it covers far fewer companies than the S&P 500.
The Dow is unusual in that it is price-weighted rather than market-cap-weighted: a company with a higher share price sways the index more, regardless of its actual size. Most analysts consider the market-cap-weighted S&P 500 a more representative gauge, but the Dow endures for its history and simplicity.
stocks-llm covers all 30 Dow components. The live list below shows them ranked by market cap, as delayed data with its as-of date.
Dow Jones (DJIA) components in the catalog by market cap
| Company | Market cap | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nvidia (NVDA) | $5.01T |
| 2 | Apple Inc. (AAPL) | $4.76T |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc. (Class A) (GOOGL) | $4.30T |
| 4 | Microsoft (MSFT) | $2.91T |
| 5 | Amazon (AMZN) | $2.69T |
Live from the catalog, as of 2026-07-21 — delayed data from SEC EDGAR + Finnhub.
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