Dow Jones^DJI
A 130-year-old benchmark of 30 blue-chip US companies, weighted by price.
Past week: -0.01%
30-day price
Where the chart sits — description, not prediction
Trading above both its 50-day (50,085.29) and 200-day (48,215.69) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 49,363.88–51,999.67; currently in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) 53 — momentum roughly neutral.
Computed from daily closing prices (Yahoo Finance), June 23, 2026. Compare all markets →
What is Dow Jones?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average — "the Dow" — tracks the share prices of 30 large, well-known US companies. It is one of the oldest and most-quoted market measures; "the market was up 300 points" almost always refers to the Dow.
The Dow is price-weighted: a company with a higher share price sways the index more than a lower-priced one, regardless of company size. The 30 prices are summed and divided by the "Dow Divisor" (about 0.162), which is adjusted for splits and membership changes.
With only 30 stocks, it is far narrower than the S&P 500. A committee picks the members to represent a cross-section of the economy, though critics note the small count and price-weighting make it a limited snapshot.
What has moved Dow Jones
Oct 19, 1987 — Black Monday
The Dow fell 508 points, or 22.6%, in a single session — still its largest one-day percentage drop — amid program trading and portfolio-insurance selling. It recovered within about two years.
2008 — the financial crisis
On September 29, 2008 the Dow fell 777 points after the House rejected a bank-bailout bill; over the 2007–2009 bear market it lost roughly 54% peak to trough.
Feb–Mar 2020 — the COVID crash
The Dow fell about 37% from its February 2020 high to its March 23 low, including a 2,997-point (-12.9%) day on March 16 — its second-largest percentage loss since World War II.
May 16, 2024 — first cross of 40,000
Cooling inflation data lifted the Dow above 40,000 for the first time; it finished 2024 near 42,544. Nvidia, Amazon, and Sherwin-Williams joined the index that year, replacing Intel, Walgreens, and Dow Inc.
Feb 6, 2026 — first close above 50,000
The Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time after a rotation into blue-chip stocks, and traded near 51,900 by mid-June 2026.
Notable moments
It started with 12 stocks in 1896
Charles Dow's original average tracked 12 companies in railroads, sugar, tobacco, and manufacturing. General Electric, an original-era member, stayed in the index on and off until 2018.
The "Industrial" name is mostly historical
Today the Dow holds technology, finance, healthcare, retail, and consumer brands — no airline, automaker, or pure energy company as of 2025 — a long way from its 19th-century industrial roots.
Common questions
Why "points" instead of percent?
The Dow is a raw number, and a point is one unit of it. A 500-point move was 5% when the Dow was at 10,000 but only 1% at 50,000 — which is why analysts report the percentage too.
Price-weighting vs market-cap weighting?
In the Dow, a $500 stock moves the index five times as much as a $100 stock, regardless of company size. The S&P 500 instead weights by total market value, so the biggest companies dominate.
Does the Dow include dividends?
The headline Dow tracks price only. A separate total-return version reinvests dividends and has meaningfully higher long-run returns.
How are members chosen?
A committee selects companies with strong reputations and broad investor interest, swapping them in pairs to limit divisor adjustments — for example, Nvidia and Sherwin-Williams replaced Intel and Dow Inc. in late 2024.