FTSE 100 INDEX

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The 'FTSE 100 Index' (, ''footsie'') is a share index of the 100 most highly capitalised companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The index began on 3 January 1984 with a base level of 1000; the highest value reached to date is 6950.6, on 30 December 1999.
FTSE is an abbreviation of 'Financial Times Stock Exchange'. The index is maintained by the FTSE Group, a now independent company which originated as a joint venture between the ''Financial Times'' and the London Stock Exchange.
FTSE 100 companies represent about 80% of the market capitalization of the whole London Stock Exchange. Even though the FTSE All-Share Index is more comprehensive, the FTSE 100 is by far the most widely used UK stock market indicator. Other related indices are the FTSE 250 Index (which lists the next largest 250 companies after the FTSE 100), the FTSE 350 Index (which is the aggregation of the FTSE 100 and 250), FTSE SmallCap Index and FTSE Fledgling. The FTSE All-Share aggregates the FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and FTSE SmallCap.
The constituents of the index are determined quarterly; the largest companies in the FTSE 250 Index are promoted if their market capitalisation would place them in the top 90 firms of the FTSE 100 Index. As of 2006, the threshold for inclusion is about 2.9 billion pounds [1]. As of 29 December 2006 the 6 largest constituents of the index were BP, Royal Dutch Shell, HSBC Holdings, the Vodafone Group, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and GlaxoSmithKline, which were each valued at more than £60 billion.
Component companies must meet a number of requirements set out by the FTSE Group, including having a full listing on the London Stock Exchange with a Sterling or Euro dominated price on Stock Exchange Electronic Trading Service|SETS, and meeting certain tests on nationality, free float, and liquidity.
Most of the companies listed on this index usually include the abbreviation plc at the end of their name, indicating their status of public limited company.
Trading lasts from 0800-1629 (when the closing auction starts), and closing values are taken at 1635 (though the closing value of the index itself is timed at 1636).

Contents
List of FTSE 100 companies
Market capitalisation
Previous members of the FTSE 100 index
FT 30
See also
External links

List of FTSE 100 companies


This reflects the de-listing of Alliance Boots on 6 June 2007.
There are 100 companies in the index, but a total of 102 listings as two classes of shares are included for Royal Dutch Shell and Schroders.
# 3i
# Alliance & Leicester
# Anglo American
# Antofagasta
# Associated British Foods
# AstraZeneca
# Aviva
# BAE Systems
# BG Group
# BHP Billiton
# BP
# BT Group
# Barclays Bank
# Barratt Developments
# British Airways
# British American Tobacco
# British Energy Group
# British Land Company
# British Sky Broadcasting Group
# Cable & Wireless
# Cadbury Schweppes
# Capita Group
# Carnival
# Centrica
# Compass Group
# DSG International
# Daily Mail and General Trust
# Diageo
# Drax Group
# Enterprise Inns
# Experian
# Friends Provident
# GlaxoSmithKline
# HBOS
# HSBC
# Hammerson
# Hanson
# Home Retail Group
# ICAP
# ITV
# Imperial Chemical Industries
# Imperial Tobacco
# InterContinental Hotels Group
# International Power
# INVESCO
# Johnson Matthey
# Kazakhmys
# Kelda Group
# Kingfisher
# Land Securities Group
# Legal & General
# Liberty International
# Lloyds TSB
# Lonmin
# Man Group
# Marks & Spencer
# Mitchells & Butlers
# Wm Morrison Supermarkets
# National Grid
# Next
# Northern Rock
# Old Mutual
# Pearson
# Persimmon
# Prudential
# Punch Taverns
# Reckitt Benckiser
# Reed Elsevier
# Resolution
# Reuters Group
# Rexam
# Rio Tinto Group
# Rolls-Royce Group
# Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance
# Royal Bank of Scotland Group
# Royal Dutch Shell
# SABMiller
# Sage Group
# J Sainsbury
# Schroders
# Scottish & Newcastle
# Scottish & Southern Energy
# SEGRO
# Severn Trent
# Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
# Smith & Nephew
# Smiths Group
# Standard Chartered Bank
# Standard Life
# Tate & Lyle
# Tesco
# Unilever
# United Utilities
# Vedanta Resources
# Vodafone
# WPP Group
# Whitbread
# Wolseley
# Xstrata
# Yell Group

Market capitalisation


The following table lists the 35 FTSE 100 companies which had a market capitalisation of £10 billion or more on 29 December 2006, which was the last trading day of 2006. At that date £10 billion was equivalent to US$19.676 billion.
RankCompanyCapitalisation (£m)
1Royal Dutch Shell117,078.16
2BP110,754.50
3HSBC106,791.58
4GlaxoSmithKline78,131.02
5Vodafone Group74,470.37
6Royal Bank of Scotland Group63,032.80
7Barclays plc47,239.09
8HBOS42,883.30
9AstraZeneca42,557.86
10 Anglo American36,931.36
11Lloyds TSB32,176.65
12Tesco32,079.61
13British American Tobacco29,598.13
14Rio Tinto Group [1]28,218.57
15Diageo27,637.07
16BT Group25,085.31
17Xstrata23,964.74
18BG Group23,741.69
19BHP Billiton [2]23,044.21
20Aviva20,915.36
21Standard Chartered20,588.41
22National Grid19,968.86
23Unilever [3]18,706.09
24SABMiller17,582.28
25Prudential16,961.86
26Reckitt Benckiser16,878.23
27Imperial Tobacco Group13,880.96
28BAE Systems13,578.49
29Scottish and Southern Energy13,302.24
30Centrica12,862.30
31Marks & Spencer12,074.98
32Cadbury Schweppes11,359.65
33Scottish Power [4]11,107.35
34Land Securities10,803.03
35Legal & General10,212.24

Source: File linked from this page on the London Stock Exchange's official site. Companies which do not have their primary listing on the London Stock Exchange are not eligible for membership of the FTSE 100 Index and have been excluded.
1. : Rio Tinto Group is a dual listed company. The figure shown represents only the majority stake owned by Rio Tinto Plc.
2. : BHP Billiton is a dual listed company. The figure represents only the minority stake owned by BHP Billiton Plc.
3. : Unilever is a dual listed company. The figure represents only the minority stake owned by Unilever Plc.
4. : Scottish Power was taken over by Iberdrola of Spain in March 2007.

Previous members of the FTSE 100 index



★ Abbey Life (became subsidiary of Lloyds TSB in 1996, then sold to Deutsche Bank in 2007[2][3])

Abbey National

Alliance Boots

Allied Domecq

★ Allied Zurich (dual holding company along with Zurich Allied, companies unified in 2000 to form Zurich Financial Services[4])

Amersham

Amstrad

Argos

★ Argyll Group (renamed to Safeway in 1996, then taken over by Morrisons in 2004)

★ Arjo Wiggins Appleton plc

ARM Holdings

ASDA Group

Autonomy Corporation

BAA

Baltimore Technologies

Bank of Scotland (now part of HBOS)

Beecham Group (Now part of GlaxoSmithKline)

★ Berisford

★ BET

Bhs

★ BICC

Blue Arrow

Blue Circle Industries

BOC

Bowater

★ Bookham Technology

British Aerospace (now part of BAE Systems)

BPB Industries

Bradford & Bingley

★ British & Commonwealth

Brambles Industries

British Steel

Britoil

BTR

★ Bunzl

★ Burmah Castrol

Burmah Oil

Burton Group

Cairn Energy

Carlton Communications

★ Celltech (acquired by UCB in 2004)

CMG

★ Coats Viyella

COLT Telecom Group

Compass Group

★ Consolidated Gold Fields

Cookson Group

Corus Group

Courtaulds

★ Dalgety

Debenhams

De La Rue

★ Dimension Data Holdings

★ Distillers (now part of Diageo)

★ Dixons Group (renamed to DSG International)

★ Dowty Group

★ Eagle Star

★ Eastern Group

★ ECC Group

★ Edinburgh Investment Trust

★ Electrocomponents

EMAP

EMI Group

Energis

English China Clays

Enterprise Oil

Eurotunnel

★ EXCO International

Exel

Ferranti International

★ Fisons

★ Foreign & Colonial Inv. Trust

Forte plc

Freeserve

Gallaher Group

★ Gateway Corporation

GEC/Marconi plc

★ General Accident

GKN

★ Glaxo Wellcome (now part of GlaxoSmithKline)

★ Globe Investment Trust

★ Granada Compass (split in 2001 to leave Granada plc and Compass Group plc)

Granada Group

★ Greenalls Group

★ Grand Metropolitan (now merged into Diageo)

★ Guardian Royal Exchange plc

Guinness (now merged into Diageo)

GUS

Habitat Mothercare (later became part of merger forming Storehouse plc)

Halifax Group (now part of HBOS)

★ Hambro Life

★ Harrisons & Crosfield

Hawker Siddeley

Hays

★ Hillsdown Holdings

House of Fraser

★ I.C. Gas

Inchcape plc

★ Innogy Holdings

Invensys

Jaguar

Kingston Communications

Kwik Save Group

Ladbrokes

★ Laporte

★ LASMO (now part of Eni[5])

★ Lattice

Logica

★ London Electricity plc

Lonhro

Lucas Industries

LucasVarity

★ Magnet and Southerns

★ Maxwell Communications

★ MB-Caradon

★ MEPC

★ Mercury Asset Management

MFI Furniture

★ Midlands Electricity plc

Midland Bank

Misys

NatWest (now part of Royal Bank of Scotland Group)

NFC

Northern Foods

Norwich Union

★ Nycomed Amersham

★ O2 (now part of Telefónica O2)

Orange plc

PartyGaming

P&O

P&O Princess Cruises

Pilkington

Plessey

Polly Peck

PowerGen

Provident Financial

Psion

Racal Electronics

Railtrack Group

Rank Hovis McDougall (now part of Premier Foods)

★ Redland

Rentokil Initial

★ RMC Group

Rothmans International

★ J Rothschild

Rowntree

★ Royal Insurance (now part of Royal & SunAlliance)

Saatchi & Saatchi

Safeway

Scottish Hydro Electric

Scottish Power

★ Sears plc

Securicor

★ Sedgwick

Sema Group

★ Shell Transport and Trading Company (now re-organised with Royal Dutch Petroleum Company as Royal Dutch Shell)

★ Siebe

★ SmithKline Beecham (now part of GlaxoSmithKline)

Smiths Industries

Southern Electric

Spirent

★ STC

Stagecoach Holdings plc

Storehouse plc

★ Sun Alliance Group plc (now part of Royal & SunAlliance)

★ Sun Life Assurance

Tarmac

Taylor Woodrow

Telewest Communications

Thames Water

The Energy Group

★ Thorn

Thorn EMI

Thus

TI Group

Tomkins

Trafalgar House

TSB Group

Ultramar

Unigate

United Biscuits

United Business Media

Warburg SG

★ SLPH

★ Wellcome (UK pharmaceutical company)

W H Smith

William Hill (bookmaker)

★ Williams Holdings

★ Willis Corroon

★ Willis Faber

George Wimpey

Woolwich

Zeneca (now part of AstraZeneca)
''source: FTSE: FTSE 100 Constituent Changes''

FT 30


The oldest continuous index in the UK is the now largely redundant FT30 which began on July 1st 1935. Of the original constituents three are currently in the FTSE 100: Imperial Chemical (now ICI), Imperial Tobacco and Rolls Royce, although Rolls Royce has not been continuously listed, and ICI is likely to be taken over shortly as it accepted a bid in August 2007. A further five are still listed but not in the FTSE 100: EMI, The General Electric Company (now Telent), Guest Keen & Nettlefolds (GKN), Tate & Lyle and Woolworths, although Woolworths has also not been continuously listed. Four of the original FT30 companies are still in that index remain in the FT30: EMI, GKN, Imperial Chemical and Tate & Lyle (membership is not strictly based on market capitalisation, so this does not mean they are necessarily among the top 30 companies in the FTSE 100). The best performer from the original line-up has been Imperial Tobacco.: Eckett, Stephen (ed.) (2004), ''The UK Stock Market Almanac 2005'', Petersfield, Harriman House. ISBN 1-897597-46-0

See also



FTSE 250 Index

Stock market index

Dow Jones

DAX

External links



FTSE Group website

FTSE100 Consituents Direct from FTSE Group website

FTSE 100 Index on Yahoo Finance

List of biggest one day falls in value of FTSE 100

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