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Dow Jones Transportation Average |
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Dow Jones Transportation Average A stock market index founded in 1884 by Charles Dow that tracks (usually) 20 companies in the transportation industry. It is a price-weighted index, meaning that stocks with higher prices per share affect the average more. It also scales its averages to account for stock splits and other changes in the companies tracked. It includes stocks in shipping, airline, trucking, railroad and other transportation-related industries. It is the oldest actively used stock index in the world. Dow Jones Transportation Average. The Dow Jones Transportation Average tracks the performance of the stocks of 20 airlines, railroads, and trucking companies. It is one of the components of the Dow Jones 65 Composite Average. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| NEW DOW MEMBERS: The Dow Jones transportation average and the Dow Jones industrial average are changing. Our stock is traded on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol JBHT and is a component of the Dow Jones Transportation Average. The Exchange will list options and long-term equity anticipation securities on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJX), Dow Jones Transportation Average (DTX) and Dow Jones Utility Average (DUX). |
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