The Dow Jones Utility Average (DJUA, also known as the "Dow Jones Utilities") is a

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from

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that tracks the performance of 15 prominent

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companies traded in the United States. The Dow Jones Utilities is a price-weighted average. All components of the DJUA are listed on the

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, with the exception of

American Electric Power American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP), (railcar reporting mark: AEPX) is an American domestic electric utility company in the United States. It is one of the largest electric utility companies in the country, with more than five mi ...

Exelon Exelon Corporation is an American public utility headquartered in Chicago, and incorporated in Pennsylvania. Exelon is the largest electric parent company in the United States by revenue and is the largest regulated electric utility in the Uni ...

, and

Xcel Energy Xcel Energy Inc. is a U.S. regulated electric utility and natural gas delivery company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving more than 3.7 million electric customers and 2.1 million natural gas customers across parts of eight states (Color ...

, which are listed on

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Components

, the current components on the Dow Jones Utilities are as follows (company name followed by

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Former components

Effective October 1, 2014, American Water Works replaced

Williams Companies The Williams Companies, Inc. is an American energy company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its core business is natural gas processing and transportation, with additional petroleum and electricity generation assets. A Fortune 500 company, its commo ...

. Effective January 18, 2019, Sempra Energy replaced

PG&E Corporation The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). The company is headquartered at Kaiser Center, in Oakland, California. PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million households in the norther ...

. Effective October 27, 2020, Atmos Energy and Xcel Energy replaced CenterPoint Energy and

NiSource NiSource Inc. is one of the largest fully regulated utility companies in the United States, serving approximately 3.5 million natural gas customers and 500,000 electric customers across six states through its local Columbia Gas and NIPSCO brands ...

, respectively. Effective November 8, 2024, Vistra Corp. replaced

AES Corporation The AES Corporation is an American utility and power generation company. It owns and operates power plants, which it uses to generate and sell electricity to end users and intermediaries like utilities and industrial facilities. AES, headquarte ...

History

The index was created in 1929 when all utility stocks were removed from the

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. On April 20, 1965, the index closed at 163.32. On September 13, 1974, the index closed at 57.93.

Annual returns

The following table shows the price return of the Dow Jones Utility Average, which was calculated back to 1928.

Record values

Investing

There is no fund that tracks this index. There are funds that have very similar behavior, such as Utilities Select Sector SPDR ().

References

External links

Official Website
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