The List
The Top 25: a Big Shift in S&P 500 Index
In 10 years, the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has seen a leadership shuffle. GE, Coca-Cola, and Intel gained market value against peers; AT&T and GM fell.
1996
1. General Electric
2. Coca-Cola
3. Exxon
4. Intel
5. Microsoft
6. Merck
7. Philip Morris
8. Royal Dutch Petroleum
9. IBM
10. Procter & Gamble
11. AT&T
12. Johnson & Johnson
13. Bristol-Myers Squibb
14. Pfizer
15. DuPont
16. Wal-Mart
17. Hewlett-Packard
18. American Int'l Group
19. Citicorp
20. Mobil
21. Disney
22. PepsiCo
23. GTE
24. Chevron
25. General Motors
1986
1. IBM
2. Exxon
3. General Electric
4. AT&T
5. Royal Dutch Petroleum
6. General Motors
7. DuPont
8. BellSouth
9. Philip Morris
10. Merck
11. Amoco
12. Mobil
13. Eastman Kodak
14. Chevron
15. Sears, Roebuck
16. Coca-Cola
17. Ford Motor
18. Bell Atlantic
19. Digital Equipment
20. 3M
21. Wal-Mart
22. Nynex
23. Ameritech
24. Procter & Gamble
25. GTE
SOURCES: T. Rowe Price Investment Services Inc.; Standard & Poor's.