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Skepticism about the wisdom of these profligate plans are a problem for indexes that are heavily weighted toward big tech like the S&P 500, which ended the week slightly lower.
From Barron's
The Dow is weighted by share price, calculated by adding the prices of the index’s 30 stocks and dividing by a factor that accounts for changes, such as stock splits and new index entrants.
Half of the companies trade at forward P/E valuations lower than the IT sector’s weighted P/E of 25.7.
From MarketWatch
Those four stocks all have high share prices, which means they have a bigger impact on the price-weighted Dow than they would if the index was weighted according to market value.
From Barron's
But the Dow comprises only 30 companies, weighted by share prices, so a sharp change in an expensive stock can exert strong pressure on the average.
From Los Angeles Times
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