Perspectives: Long-Term Returns on the Original S&P 500 Companies
Jeremy J. Siegel
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
JEREMY SCHWARTZ
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 18-31, January/February 2006
Abstract:
The S&P 500 Index is continually updated, with approximately 20 companies added each year and an equal number dropped. In the study reported here, the returns to all 500 of the original S&P 500 companies and returns to the continually updated index were calculated from March 1957 through 2003. Contrary to earlier research, this study found that the buy-and-hold returns of the 500 original companies have been higher than the returns to the continually updated S&P 500 and with lower risk. Furthermore, the original companies in 9 of the 10 industry sectors outperformed the new companies added to the index.
Keywords: Portfolio Management, Equity Strategies, Equity Investments, Research Sources
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Suggested Citation
Siegel, Jeremy J. and SCHWARTZ, JEREMY, Perspectives: Long-Term Returns on the Original S&P 500 Companies. Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 18-31, January/February 2006. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=892356
