S&P 500

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1. An index of stock prices issued by Standard and Poor, a major credit-rating agency, and indicating price movements of the shares of five hundred major companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange. (Compare Dow Jones Industrial Average .)

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Example Sentences

In fact, if SpaceX’s pitch goes through, it would rank behind only five companies in the S&P 500 Index — Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

The fund’s stock manager targets beating the S&P 500 by one percentage point a year, holding Big Tech and eyeing AI users like BlackRock.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Wall Street also seems to be betting on that ticket being punched, as few of the major banks and investment firms have trimmed their end-of-year price targets of around 7700 points for the S&P 500.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

U.S. stocks narrowly avoided a technical correction, with the S&P 500 rebounding over 3.77% after nearing a 9.1% pullback.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The next year, the S&P 500 fell again, by 22.1 percent, and yet Scion was up again: 16 percent.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis