GEX is a German
stock market index
In finance, a stock index, or stock market index, is an Index (economics), index that measures the performance of a stock market, or of a subset of a stock market. It helps investors compare current stock price levels with past prices to calcul ...
based owner-dominated companies, which have been listed on the German stock exchange less than ten years.
Owner domination entails that members of the executive and supervisory boards or their families hold between 25 and 75 percent of the voting rights in the company. Many small and medium-sized companies are led by their owners and the Index focuses on this segment. On average, companies on the Index have been listed for approximately five years. Thus, the GEX index serves as an indicator for the price development of small and medium-sized companies on the exchange.
The number of listed companies that qualify has fallen from around 120 to 35 between 2010 and 2012.
See also
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DAX
The DAX (''Deutscher Aktienindex'' (German stock index); ) is a stock market index consisting of the 40 major German blue chip companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It is a total return index. Prices are taken from the Xetra t ...
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MDAX
The MDAX is a stock index which lists German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The index is calculated by .
It includes the 50 Prime Standard shares that rank in size immediately below the companies included in the DAX index. T ...
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ÖkoDAX
ÖkoDAX is a German stock market index which includes ten companies in the renewable energy sector. It was introduced, 4 June 2007. The constituting companies and their weightings are reviewed quarterly (March, June, September and December). The co ...
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SDAX
The SDAX (German abbreviation for ''Small-Cap-deutsche Aktienindex'') is a stock market index composed of 70 small and medium-sized companies in Germany. These so-called 'Small cap company, small caps' rank directly below the MDAX (mid-cap) shar ...
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TecDAX
The TecDAX stock index tracks the performance of the 30 largest German companies from the technology sector. In terms of order book turnover and market capitalization the companies rank below those included in the DAX.
The TecDax was introduced ...
References
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External links
Guide to the GEX
German stock market indices