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Here, go nuts, looks like you're way off: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/full/2000/ http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune50

• WalterBright 13y ago
  Take a look at this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_components_of_the_Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_components_of_the_Do...
  • afterburner 13y ago
    It's interesting, although the Dow Jones index is sort of arbitrary in its choices; it's certainly not the "largest corporations" as you stated, although of course some of the largest will end up in it. In fact, I'm not really able to find what it is that actually determines what companies are in the Dow Jones Index. If you know or find something I'm curious.
    • WalterBright 13y ago
      I've seen in print listings of the largest by market cap for each decade, but after considerable time on google was unable to find it. The DJ is a reasonable proxy of it, though, as it's meant to be representative of the economy, and so by its nature will mean the biggest ones.