A price-weighted average is a simple mathematical average of several stock prices, and is often used to construct a price-weighted index. Perhaps the most well-known stock index in the U.S., the Dow ...

Total return indices deserve more attention. They more closely represent what an investor participant actually takes home: the return of an index, plus dividends paid and reinvested in the index.

The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (DIA) tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average, offering exposure to 30 prominent U.S. stocks. It uses a price-weighted index method and cannot reinvest ...

Created in 1896, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is one of the world's longest-running stock market indexes. There's a great deal of tradition attached to it, and many historical accounts of past ...