The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted index consisting of 30 stocks. It’s one of the oldest and best-known measures of stock market performance. The blue-chip index closed at a new all-time high Wednesday, dating all the way back to 1896.
Dow Jones stocks have returned an average of about 19 percent in 2021. Eighteen Dow components have underperformed the overall Dow average year-to-date and eight of those 18 stocks are currently trading negative for the year.
