The UBS 100 Index is a Swiss
share index launched in April 1987. It tracks the 100 Swiss companies with the largest
market capitalization
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
Market capitalization is equal to the market price per common share multiplied by ...
s that are listed on the
SIX Swiss stock exchange. In 2022, the UBS 100 Index covered 98% of the publicly traded shares of Swiss companies, measured by free-float market capitalization.
In April 1987, the UBS 100 Index began at 100 points. On 16 September 2022, the index registered at 640 points,
[ and the three largest constituents (]Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. ( ) is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. It has been the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 20 ...
, Novartis
Novartis AG is a Swiss multinational corporation, multinational pharmaceutical company, pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland. Novartis is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and was the eighth largest by re ...
and Roche
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, commonly known as Roche (), is a Switzerland, Swiss multinational corporation, multinational holding healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, ...
) made up 48.83% of the assets of an ETF that tracks the index.
References
Swiss stock market indices
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