Talk:List of S&P 500 companies

message: Because: The "reason" column notes are different for the Add(s) and the Removed(s). Entries / events on each line are (almost) NEVER related to each other.
I don't understand how it can be a single joined table!
68.111.65.18 (talk) 19:47, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected Changes Table: Added-Removed should be sep tables? 

message: I just wanted to draw attention and comment to on a draft poll to determine naming convention for companies and businesses.  I have looked around a number of places and have only seen comments to the effect of "we should have a convention" or "do we have a convention" on how to name a XXX company.  This has either the effect of drawing a few uninterested comments or a stirring up a heated debate.  In either case the net result is generally zero.  Your comments to help clarify this poll and later corresponding vote would be greatly appreciated.  --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 17:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies)|Naming convention for Companies and Businesses]] 

message: Voting has begun and will continue until March 5.  Please resolve this lagging issue.  --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies)/poll]]

message: Can you please not edit the S&P 500 Component Stocks table headers! There are lots of scripts that read the headers as they are. Why would be change from "Ticker symbol" to "Symbol"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:1F80:7B00:BDE1:8C5E:477D:EC20 (talk) 19:43, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please do not edit the S&P 500 Component Stocks table headers 

message: Please do not edit the text of the listing.  This is the list as it comes from S&P.  Please make redirects for companies better known by other names instead of editing their listing.  This enables easier updates from the S&P list.  Thanks.  --ChrisRuvolo 00:49, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The ticker symbol of Albertsons was ABS in 2006 when it was removed from the S&P 500 index. So an edit is not warranted. An edit in the "Selected changes to the list of S&P 500 components" section should never be made unless supported by a legitimate reference source. Ksu6500 (talk) 02:41, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please do not edit text of listing. 

message: There is also a category (:Category:S&P 500).  Is there any desire to keep that synced with this list? -- Bovineone 06:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating category 

message: Updated 6 March 2007:
 List of missing articles for S&P 500 companies
Company	Ticker symbol	SEC filings	Industry
	Applera Corp-Applied Biosystems Group		ABI         		reports   		Life Sciences Tools & Services
	Archstone-Smith Trust		ASN         		reports   		Residential REITs
	BJ Services		BJS         		reports   		Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
	Bard (C.R.) Inc.		BCR         		reports   		Health Care Equipment
	Century Telephone		CTL         		reports   		Integrated Telecommunication Services
	Equity Residential		EQR         		reports   		Residential REITs
	Hudson City Bancorp		HCBK        		reports   		Thrifts & Mortgage Finance
	Kimco Realty		KIM         		reports   		Retail REITs
	Laboratory Corp. of America Holding		LH          		reports   		Health Care Services
	Millipore Corp.		MIL         		reports   		Life Sciences Tools & Services
	Noble Corporation		NE          		reports   		Oil & Gas Drilling
	Pinnacle West Capital		PNW         		reports   		Electric Utilities
	Questar Corp.		STR         		reports   		Gas Utilities
	Spectra Energy Corp.		SE          		reports   		Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation
	Zions Bancorp		ZION        		reports   		Regional Banks
--A. B. (talk) 15:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I requested that  restore the article. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:57, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current list of missing articles for [[List of S&P 500 companies|S&P 500 companies]] 

message: Yesterday, I replaced the existing list with the 1 March 2007 list of S&P 500 constituents from the Standard and Poor's website. While I was at it, I also added ticker symbols, each company's industry (as listed by S&P) and links to each company's filings at www.sec.gov. I created new redirects for companies whose article names did not match the names S&P used. I also made sure each company was listed in :Category:S&P 500. 
The convention observed previously with this article has been to use exactly the S&P nomenclature, which I have done, however I think we may want to rethink a few:
*Companies with "(New)" in their listing such as Fluor Corp. (New)
*Companies with a specific class of stock in their listing such as Dynegy Inc. (New) Class A and Scripps (E. W.) 'A'
**S&P's list is more precisely a list of equity securities, while this list is of companies
Perhaps these types of situations might be best handled with footnotes, for example:
* Fluor Corp.[1]
**1 Fluor Corporation was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:FLR) in 1957 and later acquired. In 2000, Fluor was spun out of Massey Energy and the "new" Fluor Corporation was relisted on the NYSE.
* Scripps (E. W.)[2]
**2 Scripps has two classes of common stock, "Voting shares" and "Class A". Class A shares are used in S&P 500 index calculations
What do others think? (And does anyone have any problems with the expanded information I added yesterday?) --A. B. (talk) 16:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In the past, I had truncated the "(New)" where it was listed.  I also removed the "class A" where I was able to find it.  The footnotes would be fine with me, but may be hard to maintain as the S&P list gets updated in the future.  I don't see anything wrong with the expanded info, the update looks good to me.  Thanks for your work. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 17:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Footnotes don't add much beyond trivia better included in the company's article -- I like the truncation approach better. I'll do that for now -- if anybody disagrees, they should feel free to revert me. --A. B. (talk) 17:59, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Every month there are major corporate actions (e.g. Mergers and Acquisitions) that change the composition of the S&P.  While admirable, I think the footnotes would be A. Hard to maintain and B. crowd out the list after a year.  Trompelamort (talk) 13:35, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  5 March 2007 changes + issues to consider 

message: a summary count of components by sector (i.e. financials, vs industrials etc)
How about we add another column for GICS codes?  This is basic encyclopedic information useful for anyone in business. 164.67.237.253 (talk) 23:44, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  it would be helpful to have 

message: I found that two of the links from stock symbols to NYSE's web site do not work:
BRK.B (Berkshire Hathaway) links to "http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/brk.b.html" but should link to "http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/brkb.html".
BF.B (Brown-Forman Corp.) links to "http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/bf.b.html" but should link to "http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/bfb.html".
These links can be verified by clicking on them.
The link for VIA.B (Viacom) works but the symbol is incorrect. The symbol is currently "VIAb" but should be "VIA.B". This can be verified by clicking on http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/viab.html.
Davidlevner (talk) 06:22, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two broken links and one incorrect symbol 

message: I've been looking at back history, and see a lot of cases where an individual stock was added or removed by itself (instead of as a AAA-replaces-BBB), or cases where an addition and a removal were put in, but where those two were totally unrelated.  Also, I've noticed that given many unrelated edits (fixing links,grammar, etc), it's not easy to determine whether a given change to the index has been recorded here in the table or not.
Aiming to make those better, I've put in a table of recent changes, and filled it with the last 2 years of component changes.  I also added some comments to the body of the file, above both tables, requesting of editors that if they're going to change the tables, that they make sure that they record both the addition and the deletion, and also put an entry in the changes table.
My thinking is, this will help us to make sure we record changes accurately, and it will also help in terms of keeping the table up to date since we'll be keeping a good record of whether a given change to the index has been reflected here or not.
Not trying to be authoritarian, just putting in my suggestion of one way we might be able to reduce the management overhead of keeping the table up to date, by keeping a record of what's already been done.
Suggestions or comments welcome.  Cheers, Twredfish (talk) 21:05, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions on how to update the list 

message: Regarding dates in the "Date first added" (rightmost) column of the main table as well as those in the "Date" (leftmost) column of the "Recent changes ..." table, I have been following the convention of using the first trading date on which the new company was part of the S&P 500 Index calculation.  The rationale is that this would be the most useful date for anyone trying to track when a company's stock price first impacted the index.
An alternative convention would be to use the date quoted in S&P press releases as to when the switch occurs following the close of trading, i.e., the prior trading date.  This is the date currently listed in the two most recent entries in the "Recent changes ..." table.
To our most respected fellow maintainer UnitedStatesian, if you concur that the convention I have been following is the most useful, then (with your permission) I would like to modify the ABBV date to be 1/2/2013 and the DLPH date to be 12/24/2012 in order to maintain consistency with the other index updates in 2012.
Otherwise, if the alternative convention (or some other one) is preferable, then I would be happy to adopt that practice for all my future revisions.
Probably most people don't care, but I admit to having an obsession with consistency.  :-)
Cheers.  - ErniePetrides (talk) 08:42, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates of changes for newly added S&P 500 components 

message: That is about it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imougy (talk • contribs) 00:09, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The list is 501 instead of 500 

message: The entry currently lists FOXA as being added to replace APOL whereas it was NWSAV (now NWSA) as per the S&P document linked in the citation.
Cheers,
TS  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheSeatonian (talk • contribs) 12:34, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  June 28, 2013 entry under "Recent Changes..." section incorrect? 

message: By my count there are 502 entries in the grid; something is wrong.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.173.98.196 (talk) 14:40, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, no: The index does have 502 constituents, issued by 500 companies.   See page 6 of the index factsheet UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:29, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  502 entries in the grid? 

message: As per the announcement linked, Allergan (AGN) was de-listed and replaced by AAL.  However, AGN is still present in the main list.  Removing it will reduce the total number to 501, I think.
Cheers,   TheSeatonian (talk) 08:54, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  AGN to go, 501 remain? 

message: It's a S&P 500 company according this Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gannett_Company
This list is currently at 504 instead of 505.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.171.157.164 (talk) 22:11, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's there as Tegna, per this [].Timtempleton (talk) 23:29, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  GANNETT (GCI) is missing 

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message: Missing an official source for S&P 500 component stocks list. The official page http://us.spindices.com/indices/equity/sp-500 only shows "Top 10 By Index Weight" (link "Constituents" in the center-right frame). 
13:07, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: S&P stopped publishing constituents some years ago. There is a downloadable list at S&P 500 IndexAndydoc1 (talk) 12:24, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing an official source for component stocks list 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I assume the maintenance tag indicates someone has issue with the links in the main table to 1) each company's stock exchange page and 2) each company's SEC filings.  Since these 1) have been here for a long time, 2) the exchange links are consistent with every other index list in WP, and 3) make the list much more useful to readers, I do not see any issue.  Could anyone who does have an issue please elaborate further (rather than blindly citing WP:EL)? UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:31, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is mentioned in the ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:External links#Guideline question. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:31, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the issue with external links? 

message: I think there are good arguments to have the "security" listed first, rather than leading the table with the external link ticker template.  Accordingly, I am going to reorder them; may take a few edits to do all 500, so I am going to tag with . UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:33, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Now moving on to the other index articles. UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:10, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Column order 

message: Could you please stop changing the headers of the table!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.66.62.111 (talk) 20:14, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headers 

message: the table headers are broken. it looks like somebody made mistake formatting it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.107.215.251 (talk) 21:10, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somebody messed up the table 

message: https://finance.yahoo.com/m/e74243e5-f8e4-365f-9cf2-8eb7bb58c33e/baker-hughes-name-change.html
Baker Hughes has a new name once again. The change from Baker Hughes, A GE Company, to simply Baker Hughes Co. became effective Oct. 17, according to a press release. The company's ticker symbol — currently "BHGE" — will change to "BKR" on Oct. 18.
2600:6C55:6300:1CB1:0:0:0:C12 (talk) 18:08, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change BHGE to BKR as of October 18, 2019 

message: I have just discovered that an edit (Special:diff/846514700) was made on this article on June 19, 2018 by my account, which has deleted a vast portion of this article. I do not recognize this edit, nor do I have any reason to vandalize this article. I suspect it was possibly executed by someone else who had somehow managed to log into my account. I offer my sincere apologies for this edit, and I would like to thank User:Bamyers99 for reverting this edit. -- lssrn | talk 20:23, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apology and clarification for an edit made by my account in June 2018 

message: There are 12 companies that are currently in both the List of S&P 500 companies and the List of S&P 400 companies:
ATO	Atmos Energy --
BIO	Bio-Rad Laboratories --
CTLT	Catalent --
DPZ	Domino's Pizza --
ETSY	Etsy --
POOL	Pool Corporation --
ROL	Rollins Inc. --
TDY	Teledyne Technologies --
TER	Teradyne --
TYL	Tyler Technologies --
WRB	W.R. Berkley Corporation --
WST	West Pharmaceutical Services
They should be in one or the other, I think.  I don't have the definitive source lists, so I don't know which should be deleted from one of these lists.
After deleting them, there most-likely will be missing ones that are in the source lists from one or both of these lists.  I'm guessing there should be 500 and 400 in each.
Also, there was a transaction this year whereby CZR and ERI in the List of S&P 400 companies now point to the same company at the SEC:  Caesars Entertainment, Inc.  So, something is probably wrong.
Frannegan (talk) 08:28, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks for doing this work.  All of those companies were recently moved from the 400 to the 500.  Editors do an excellent job keeping this page updated; the other one, less so.  If you would like to take on maintenance of the 400 list (and the even more out-of-date List of S&P 600 companies), that would be very much appreciated. One point though: this list should have 505 entries (which it does); see the article's first paragraph for the reason why.  UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:44, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate entries in List of S&P 500 companies and List of S&P 400 companies 

message: In the table of Selected changes to the list of S&P 500 components there are two missing changes: LB to BBWI, and COG to CTRA.
YYwiki (talk) 08:52, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: "Company name changes or ticker changes are not changes to the index and should not be in this table." Both of the changes you mention are merely name/ticker changes to components that were already in the index. They do not belong in the selected changes table. Ksu6500 (talk) 18:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for your clarification. I wasn't aware of that.YYwiki (talk) 08:05, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing changes in the list of changes