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The FTSE 100 Index (pronounced footsie) is a share index of the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, begun on January 3, 1984. Component companies must meet a number of requirements set out by the FTSE Group, including having a full listing on the London Stock Exchange with a Sterling or Euro dominated price on SETS, and meeting certain tests on nationality, free float, and liquidity. Trading lasts from 0800-1629 (when the closing auction starts), and closing values are taken at 1635. The highest value of the index to date was 6950.6, set on December 30, 1999.

The index is seen as a barometer of success of the British economy and is the leading share index in Europe. It is maintained by the FTSE Group, a now independent company which originated as a joint venture between the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange (hence the abbreviation Financial Times Stock Exchange). According to the FTSE Group's website the FTSE 100 companies represent about 80% of the UK share market.

Related indices are the FTSE 250 Index (which lists the next largest 250 companies), FTSE SmallCap, FTSE Fledgling, the FTSE 350 Index (which is the aggregation of the FTSE 100 and 250), and the FTSE All-Share Index (which aggregates the FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and FTSE SmallCap).

The constituents of the index are determined quarterly; the largest companies in the FTSE 250 Index are promoted if their market capitalisation would place them in the top 90 firms of the FTSE 100 Index. As of 2006, the threshold for inclusion is about 2 billion pounds. As of 31 December 2005 the 6 largest constituents of the index were BP, Royal Dutch Shell, HSBC Holdings, the Vodafone Group, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and GlaxoSmithKline, which were all valued at more than £50 billion.

Most of the companies listed on this index usually include the abbreviation plc at the end of their name, indicating their status of public limited company.

Contents

List of FTSE 100 companies

This list is up to date at 9 June 2006 following the June quarterly review. [link]

There are 100 companies in the index, but a total of 102 listings as two classes of shares are included for Royal Dutch Shell and Schroders.

  1. 3i
  2. Alliance & Leicester
  3. Alliance Unichem
  4. AMVESCAP
  5. Anglo American
  6. Antofagasta
  7. Associated British Foods
  8. AstraZeneca
  9. Aviva
  10. BAA
  11. BAE Systems
  12. Barclays Bank
  13. BG Group
  14. BHP Billiton
  15. The BOC Group
  16. Boots Group
  17. BP
  18. Brambles Industries
  19. British Airways
  20. British American Tobacco
  21. British Energy Group
  22. British Land Company
  23. British Sky Broadcasting Group
  24. BT Group
  25. Cadbury Schweppes
  26. Cairn Energy
  27. Capita Group
  28. Carnival
  29. Centrica
  30. Compass Group
  31. Corus Group
  32. Diageo
  33. Drax Group
  34. DSG International
  35. Enterprise Inns
  36. Friends Provident
  37. Gallaher Group
  38. GlaxoSmithKline
  39. GUS
  40. Hammerson
  41. Hanson
  42. HBOS
  43. HSBC
  44. Imperial Chemical Industries
  45. Imperial Tobacco
  46. InterContinental Hotels Group
  47. International Power
  48. ITV
  49. J Sainsbury
  50. Johnson Matthey
  51. Kazakhmys
  52. Kelda Group
  53. Kingfisher
  54. Land Securities Group
  55. Legal & General
  56. Liberty International
  57. Lloyds TSB
  58. Lonmin
  59. Man Group
  60. Marks and Spencer
  61. Wm Morrison Supermarkets
  62. National Grid
  63. Next
  64. Northern Rock
  65. Old Mutual
  66. PartyGaming
  67. Pearson
  68. Persimmon
  69. Prudential
  70. Reckitt Benckiser
  71. Reed Elsevier
  72. Rentokil Initial
  73. Reuters Group
  74. Rexam
  75. Rio Tinto Group
  76. Rolls-Royce Group
  77. Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance
  78. Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  79. Royal Dutch Shell
  80. SABMiller
  81. Sage Group
  82. Schroders
  83. Scottish & Newcastle
  84. Scottish & Southern Energy
  85. Scottish Power
  86. Severn Trent
  87. Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
  88. Smith & Nephew
  89. Smiths Group
  90. Standard Chartered Bank
  91. Tate & Lyle
  92. Tesco
  93. Unilever
  94. United Utilities
  95. Vedanta Resources
  96. Vodafone
  97. Wolseley
  98. WPP Group
  99. Xstrata
  100. Yell Group

Market capitalisation

The following table lists the 31 FTSE 100 companies which had a market capitalisation of £10 billion or more on 31 December 2005. At that date £10 billion was equivalent to $17.079 billion.

Rank Company Capitalisation (£m)
1 BP 128,497
2 Royal Dutch Shell 122,656
3 HSBC 105,113
4 GlaxoSmithKline 86,311
5 Vodafone Group 78,166
6 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 55,643
7 AstraZeneca 45,236
8 Barclays Bank 39,538
9 HBOS 38,439
10 Anglo American 29,341
11 Rio Tinto Group : Rio Tinto Group is a dual listed company. The figure shown represents only the majority stake owned by Rio Tinto Plc. 28,244
12 British American Tobacco 27,618
13 Lloyds TSB 27,181
14 Tesco 26,035
15 Diageo 24,898
16 BHP Billiton : BHP Billiton is a dual listed company. The figure represents only the minority stake owned by BHP Billiton Plc. 23,434
17 BG Group 20,306
18 BT Group 18,980
19 O2 17,322
20 Standard Chartered 16,983
21 Unilever : Unilever is a dual listed company. The figure represents only the minority stake owned by Unilever Plc. 16,744
22 Aviva 16,671
23 SABMiller 15,876
24 National Grid 15,422
25 Reckitt Benckiser 13,883
26 Prudential Plc 13,336
27 Imperial Tobacco Group 12,408
28 BAE Systems 12,256
29 Cadbury Schweppes 11,422
30 Marks & Spencer 10,256
31 Scottish Power 10,044

Notes

Source: File linked from [this page] on the London Stock Exchange's official site. Companies which do not have their primary listing on the London Stock Exchange are not eligible for membership of the FTSE 100 Index and have been excluded.

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