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Top 25 Companies in S&P 500

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The S&P 500 is one of the US stock market indices that is widely known to reflect the US stock market. S&P 500 contains 505 stocks issued by 500 Large Capital companies in US. It is maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. The S&P 500 index is market cap weighted, thus gives a higher weightage to to companies with the largest market capitalizations. For example, Apple, whose market cap briefly touched 3 trillions, highest ever for any company, is the top most company in S&P 500 with close to 7% weight.

Note, what companies are currently in S&P 500 and how much weight they carry keep changing over time. Roughly, for a company to be a part of S&P 500 index, the company needs

  • a market cap of at least $13.1 billion
  • must have positive earnings in the recent quarters
  • bigger chunk of shares must be available for trading in the market (10% investible weight factor)

In this post, we ask what are the top 25 companies and how much weight do they carry in the index as of January third week in 2022.

First, we simply list the top 25 companies with their weight in S&P 500 index and then visualize the same information for the top 25 companies in two different ways.

Here are the top 25 companies in S&P 500.

  1. Apple (AAPL): 6.83%
  2. Microsoft (MSFT): 5.898%
  3. Amazon (AMZN): 3.58%
  4. Tesla (TSLA): 2.16%
  5. Alphabet Class A (GOOGL): 2.12%
  6. Meta Platforms Class C (formerly Facebook) (FB) : 1.989%
  7. Alphabet Class C (GOOG): 1.979%
  8. NVIDIA (NVDA): 1.706%
  9. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B (BRK.B): 1.5%
  10. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM): 1.18%
  11. Johnson & Johnson (JNJ): 1.11%
  12. UnitedHealth Group (UNH): 1.11%
  13. Home Depot (HD): 0.99%
  14. Procter & Gamble (PG): 0.97%
  15. Visa Class A (V): 0.91%
  16. Bank of America (BAC): 0.87%
  17. Mastercard Class A (MA): 0.818%
  18. Pfizer (PFE): 0.78%
  19. Exxon Mobil (XOM): 0.77%
  20. Walt Disney Company (DIS): 0.699%
  21. Cisco Systems (CSCO): 0.65%
  22. Chevron (CVX): 0.63%
  23. Adobe (ADBE): 0.62
  24. Broadcom (AVGO): 0.62%
  25. PepsiCo (PEP): 0.615%

Here is visualizing the same information, i.e. the weight of top 25 companies in S&P 500 index as a bar graph, here the height of the graph shows the weight. In addition, the bar graph colors show which sector each of the company belong to.

Top 25 Companies in S&P 500 Index weighted by market value as of Jan 2022
Top 25 Companies in S&P 500 Index weighted by market value as of Jan 2022

Here is a table showing the top 25 companies in S&P 500 with sector, weight and the total number of shares for each company.

Top 25 Companies in S&P 500 index
Top 25 Companies in S&P 500 index

Download the list of all companies S&P 500 index

If you are interested in getting the list of all 500 companies in S&P 500 with their name, ticker, weights, sector and the number of share head, download the S&P 500 index constituents data here: List of all S&P 500 companies with their weights as of Jan 2022.