Finally hit the big time: Apple added to the Dow.

[Acer]

Replacing that slouch AT&T.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/mark.../24491631/

[cbelt3]

They just didn't want to be embarrassed by the fact that Apple was worth more than any other stock in the Dow.

[Paul F.]

AAPL is worth more than quite a few of the Dow COMBINED...

[rgG]

About damn time.

[Acer]

Here's a really cool tool to see what the Dow would have looked like if Apple had been in it all along. You can swap Apple in for any company to see the difference.

http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/15/ap...index.html

Short answer: yes, the index number would be higher overall, but it would not change the 2008 crash into a boom.

[mrbigstuff]

think diffe---

n/m

[ztirffritz]

It has always seemed to me that every time that they add a company to the DJIA the value of the added company either flat-lines, or plummets. Let's hope Apple doesn't do either.

[Paul F.]

ztirffritz wrote:
It has always seemed to me that every time that they add a company to the DJIA the value of the added company either flat-lines, or plummets. Let's hope Apple doesn't do either.

The value of the COMPANY or the value of the STOCK?
I suspect Apple won't stop making money, or having lots of assets.

[hal]

"apple replaces ATT in the DJIA"

Could you imagine if you somehow got your hands on today's newspaper back in 1999 just long enough to see this headline? Would you have believed it? Would you head explode?

[Lux Interior]

hal wrote:
"apple replaces ATT in the DJIA"

Could you imagine if you somehow got your hands on today's newspaper back in 1999 just long enough to see this headline? Would you have believed it? Would you head explode?

My head wouldn't explode, but I might take a second mortgage out to by as much AAPL as possible.