Ownership: Fortune Magazine.
Updating: annually.
History: First published in 1955. Successor of a set of Fortune 50 lists for different industries ranked by either assets or revenue.
Selection and Ranking:
U.S companies, both privately and publicly held.
Ranked by gross revenue adjusted for the impact of excise tax.
Only privately held companies whose gross revenue is public are included

Ownership: Forbes Magazine.
Updating: annually.
History: Published since 2003.
Selection and Ranking:
Rank international public companies by a matrix of 4 criteria:
- Sales
- Profit
- Assets
- Market value.
No adjustments made for accounting difference among countries.

Ownership: Financial Times (UK newspaper).
Updating: annually.
History: 14 annual lists have been published up to now.
Selection and Ranking:
- Ranks the world’s largest companies by market capitalization

Ownership: Standard & Poor’s.
Updating: Reported daily. Index components are changed as needed.
History: First published in 1957.
Characteristics:
- Covers 75% of U.S. equities
- Ideal proxy for the total market
- Bellwether for American economy
- Included in the Index of Leading indicators
Selection:
- Selected by S&P Index Committee
- This stock index comprises stock price of 500 large cap companies representative of important industries in the U.S. weighted by float
Addition criteria:
- U.S. Company
- Market cap minimum of $5 billion
- Public float minimum of 50%
- Financial viability: at least four consecutive quarters of positive as-reported earnings (GAAP Net income excluded discontinued operations and extraordinary items)
- Liquidity and reasonable price: annual dollar value traded/market cap >=0.3
- Stock representation
- Company type: operating companies (close-end funds, holding companies, partnerships, investment vehicles and royalty trust not included)
Index removals:
- Substantially violate one or more of the inclusion criteria
- Involved in M&A or significant restructuring, no longer meet inclusion criteria

Ownership: CME Group.
Updating: Reported daily. Components changed 48 times since founded.
History: Founded by Charles Dow in 1896 with 12 companies included.
Components increased to 30 since 1928.
Characteristics: The oldest and single most-watched index in the world.
Selection:
- Stock price index comprises of 30 large, public companies in the U.S.
- Price-weighted, so changes in stocks with higher price have bigger impact on the index
- Not an arithmetic average. The Dow divisor is used to calculate the average to account for stock splits and other adjustments

Ownership: The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
Updating: Reported daily. Component stocks are reviewed annually.
History: Launched in 1985.
Characteristics: Consists of largest non-financial domestic and international securities listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market based on market capitalization
Selection: For eligibility, continued eligibility and ranking review, refer to NASDAQ.