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Encyclopedia > Dow Jones Utility Average

The Dow Jones Utility Average (also known as the "Dow Jones Utilities") is a stock index that keeps track of the performance of 15 prominent utility companies. The current components on the Dow Jones Utilities are as follows (company name followed by ticker symbol): A stock market index is a listing of stocks, and a statistic reflecting the composite value of its components. ... A public utility is a company that maintains the infrastructure for a public service. ... A stock symbol or ticker symbol is a shorthand code used to uniquely identify shares of a publicly-traded corporation on a particular stock market. ...

The Dow Jones Utilities is a large market capitalization (large cap) average. It is also a price-weighted average. This article is about the block cipher. ... American Electric Power is a major investor-owner electric utility in various parts of the United States. ... Consolidated Edison Company of New York (NYSE: ED) (Con Edison, or Con Ed) is a utility company in New York state, USA. Con Edison is a regulated utility that provides electric service in New York City and most of Westchester County, New York. ... A power and energy company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, that supplies power, heating, or other energy services to homes in Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, eastern North Carolina and select other regions. ... Duke Power, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is an electrical power company with more than 2 million customers in North and South Carolina. ... Exelon Corporation is a giant electricity generating and distributing company headquartered in Chicago. ... FirstEnergy provides power, natural gas and services to parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. ... Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is the utility that provides natural gas and electricity to most of Northern California. ... Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is an energy services company headquartered in New Jersey. ... Southern Company is a US electricity corporation. ... TXU (short for Texas Utilities, formerly TU Electric) (NYSE: TXU) is an energy company headquartered in Energy Plaza in Dallas, Texas. ... The Williams Companies, Inc. ... Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, is a business term that refers to the overall value of a companys stock. ... This article needs to be wikified. ...


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