Dow Jones Industrial Companies
Changes From 1896 through Present

Instead of listing ALL companies for EACH change, this list only shows the companies that changed.


1896 - Present  
 List
   #
  05 / 26 / 1896   Original
  12 companies of the Dow
  Jones Industrial Average.
  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * * * * * *
  1   American Cotton Oil   * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   American Sugar
  (eventually became
  Amstar Holdings)
  * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   American Tobacco   * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   Chicago Gas
  (1897 absorbed by
  Peoples Gas)
  * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   Distilling & Cattle Feeding
  (later named
  American Spirits Mfg)
  * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   General Electric   * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   Laclede Gas   * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   National Lead   * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   North American   * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   Tennessee Coal & Iron   * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   U.S. Leather Preferred   * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  1   U.S. Rubber
  (became Uniroyal,
  now part of Michelin)
  * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  2   08 / 26 / 1896   U.S. Cordage preferred   replaces >>>   North American
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  3   11 / 10 / 1896   Pacific Mail Steamship   replaces >>>   US Rubber
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  4   12 / 23 / 1896   Standard Rope & Twine   replaces >>>   U.S. Cordage preferred
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  5   03 / 24 / 1898   Peoples Gas   replaces >>>   Chicago Gas
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  6   September 1898   U.S. Rubber   replaces >>>   General Electric
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  7   04 / 21 / 1899   Continental Tobacco   replaces >>>   American Spirits Manufacturing
  7     Federal Steel   replaces >>>   American Tobacco
  7     General Electric   replaces >>>   Laclede Gas
  7     American Steel & Wire   replaces >>>   Standard Rope & Twine
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  8   04 / 01 / 1901   Amalgamated Copper   replaces >>>   American Cotton Oil
  8     American Smelting & Refining   replaces >>>   Federal Steel
  8     International Paper preferred,   replaces >>>   General Electric
  8     U.S. Steel common   replaces >>>   Pacific Mail
  8     U.S. Steel preferred   replaces >>>   American Steel & Wire
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  9   07 / 01 / 1901   American Car & Foundry   replaces >>>   Continental Tobacco
  9     Colorado Fuel & Iron   replaces >>>   International Paper preferred
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  10   04 / 01 / 1905   U.S. Rubber 1st preferred   replaces >>>   U.S. Leather preferred
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  11   11 / 07 / 1907   General Electric   replaces >>>   Tennessee Coal & Iron
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  12   05 / 12 / 1912   Central Leather   replaces >>>   Colorado Fuel & Iron
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  13   03 / 16 /1915   General Motors   replaces >>>   U.S. Rubber 1st preferred
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  14   07 / 29 / 1915   Anaconda Copper   replaces >>>   Amalgamated Copper
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  15   10 / 04 / 1916   Dow Jones Average increased to 20 stocks  
  15     12 Companies Added   4 Companies Replaced
  15     American Beet Sugar   National Lead
  15     American Can   Peoples Gas
  15     American Locomotive   General Motors
  15     American Telephone & Telegraph   U.S. Steel preferred
  15     Baldwin Locomotive   * * * * * * * *
  15     Goodrich   * * * * * * * *
  15     Republic Iron & Steel   * * * * * * * *
  15     Studebaker   * * * * * * * *
  15     Texas Company (later called Texaco)   * * * * * * * *
  15     Utah Copper   * * * * * * * *
  15     Westinghouse   * * * * * * * *
  15     Western Union   * * * * * * * *
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  16   03 / 01 / 1920   Corn Products Refining Co.   replaces >>>   American Beet Sugar
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  17   01 / 22 / 1924   American Tobacco   replaces >>>   Corn Products
  17     Du Pont   replaces >>>   Central Leather
  17     Mack Trucks   replaces >>>   Goodrich
  17     Sears, Roebuck   replaces >>>   Texas Company (later called Texaco)
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  18   02 / 06 / 1924   Standard Oil of California   replaces >>>   Utah Copper
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  19   05 / 12 / 1924   Studebaker non-par   replaces >>>   Studebaker(old)
  19     Woolworth   replaces >>>   Republic Iron & Steel
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  20   08 / 31 / 1925   General Motors   replaces >>>   Anaconda Copper
  20     International Harvester   replaces >>>   Baldwin
  20     Kennecott   replaces >>>   Du Pont
  20     Texas Company (later called Texaco)   replaces >>>   Standard Oil of California
  20     US Realty   replaces >>>   Studebaker
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  21   12 / 07 / 1925   Allied Chemical   replaces >>>   U.S. Realty
  21     Paramount Famous Lasky   replaces >>>   Westinghouse Electric
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  22   12 / 31 / 1925   Remington Typewriter   replaces >>>   Kennecott
  22     Mack Trucks, ex-stock dividend   replaces >>>   Mack Trucks stock dividend attached
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  23   03 / 16 /1927   United Drug   replaces >>>   Remington Typewriter
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  24   10 / 01 / 1928   Dow Jones Average increased to 30 stocks  
  24     16 Companies Added   6 Companies Replaced
  24     Atlantic Refining   American Car & Foundry
  24     Bethlehem Steel   American Locomotive
  24     Chrysler   American Telephone & Telegraph
  24     General Railway Signal   United Drug
  24     Goodrich   U.S. Rubber
  24     International Nickel   Western Union
  24     Nash Motors   * * * * * * * *
  24     North American   * * * * * * * *
  24     Postum Inc.   * * * * * * * *
  24     Radio Corp.   * * * * * * * *
  24     Standard Oil of New Jersey   * * * * * * * *
  24     Texas Gulf Sulphur   * * * * * * * *
  24     Union Carbide   * * * * * * * *
  24     Victor Talking Machine   * * * * * * * *
  24     Westinghouse Electric   * * * * * * * *
  24     Wright Aeronautical   * * * * * * * *
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  25   01 / 08 / 1929   National Cash Register   replaces >>>   Victor Talking Machine
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  26   09 / 14 / 1929   Curtiss-Wright   replaces >>>   Wright Aeronautical
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  27   01 / 29 / 1930   Johns-Manville   replaces >>>   North American
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  28   07 / 18 / 1930   Borden   replaces >>>   American Sugar
  28     Eastman Kodak   replaces >>>   American Tobacco B
  28     Goodyear   replaces >>>   Atlantic Refining
  28     Liggett & Myers   replaces >>>   General Railway Signal
  28     Standard Oil of California   replaces >>>   Goodrich
  28     United Air Transport   replaces >>>   Nash Motors
  28     Hudson Motor   replaces >>>   Curtiss-Wright
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  29   05 / 26 / 1932   American Tobacco B   replaces >>>   Liggett & Myers
  29     Coca Cola   replaces >>>   Hudson Motor
  29     Drug Inc.   replaces >>>   Mack Trucks
  29     International Business Machines   replaces >>>   National Cash Register
  29     International Shoe   replaces >>>   Texas Gulf Sulphur
  29     Loew's   replaces >>>   Paramount Publix Corporation
  29     Nash Motors   replaces >>>   Radio Corp.
  29     Procter & Gamble   replaces >>>   United Air Transport
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  30   08 / 15 / 1933   Corn Products   replaces >>>   Drug Inc.
  30     United Aircraft   replaces >>>   International Shoe
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  31   08 / 13 / 1934   National Distillers   replaces >>>   United Aircraft
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  32   11 / 20 / 1935   Du Pont   replaces >>>   Borden
  32     National Steel   replaces >>>   Coca Cola
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  33   03 / 14 / 1939   American Tel. & Tel.   replaces >>>   I.B.M.
  33     United Aircraft   replaces >>>   Nash Kelvinator
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  34   07 / 03 / 1956   International Paper   replaces >>>   Loew's Inc.
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  35   06 / 01 / 1959   Anaconda Copper   replaces >>>   American Smelting
  35     Swift & Co.   replaces >>>   Corn Products
  35     Aluminum Co. of America   replaces >>>   National Steel
  35     Owens-Illinois Glass   replaces >>>   National Distillers
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  36   08 / 09 / 1976   Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing   replaces >>>   Anaconda Copper
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  37   06 / 29 / 1979   International Business Machines   replaces >>>   Chrysler
  37     Merck   replaces >>>   Esmark
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  38   08 / 30 / 1982   American Express Co.   replaces >>>   Johns-Manville Corp.
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  39   10 / 30 / 1985   Philip Morris Cos.   replaces >>>   General Foods Corp.
  39     McDonald's Corp.   replaces >>>   American Tobacco B
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  40   03 / 12 / 1987   Coca-Cola Co.   replaces >>>   Owens-Illinois Inc.
  40     Boeing Co.   replaces >>>   Inco Ltd.
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  41   05 / 06 / 1991   Caterpillar Inc.   replaces >>>   Navistar International Corp.
  41     Disney Company   replaces >>>   USX Corp.
  41     J.P. Morgan & Co.   replaces >>>   Primerica Corp. (formerly American Can)
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  42   03 / 17 / 1997   Travelers Group Inc. (now Citigroup)   replaces >>>   Westinghouse Electric Corp.
  42     Hewlett-Packard Co.   replaces >>>   Texaco Inc.
  42     Johnson & Johnson   replaces >>>   Bethlehem Steel Corp.
  42     Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.   replaces >>>   Woolworth
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  43   11 / 01 / 1999   Intel   replaces >>>   Chevron
  43     Microsoft   replaces >>>   Goodyear
  43     Home Depot   replaces >>>   Sears Roebuck
  43     SBC Communications   replaces >>>   Union Carbide
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  44   01 / 27 / 2003   Philip Morris changes name to Altria.   * * * * * * * *
  44     Exxon name changed to Exxon Mobil Company.   * * * * * * * *
  44     AlliedSignal Incorporated changes name to
  Honeywell International after merging with
  Honeywell International.
  * * * * * * * *
  44     J.P. Morgan name changed Jan 2, 2001 to
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. after merging with  
  Chase Manhattan.
  * * * * * * * *
  44     Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing
  name changed to 3M Company.
  * * * * * * * *
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  45   04 / 08 / 2004   Pfizer   replaces >>>   International Paper
  45     Verizon   replaces >>>   AT&T
  45     American International Group (AIG)   replaces >>>   Eastman Kodak
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  46   11 / 21 / 2005   SBC buys AT&T
  New company is AT&T Incorporated
  * * * * * * * *
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  47   02 / 19 / 2008   Bank of America   replaces >>>   Altria
  47     Chevron   replaces >>>   Honeywell
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  48   09 / 22 / 2008   Kraft Foods   replaces >>>   American International Group
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  49   06 / 08 / 2009   Cisco Systems   replaces >>>   General Motors
  49     Travelers   replaces >>>   Citigroup
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  50   09 / 24 / 2012   UnitedHealth Group   replaces >>>   Kraft Foods
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  51   09 / 23 / 2013   Goldman Sachs   replaces >>>   Alcoa
  51     Nike   replaces >>>   Bank of America
  51     Visa   replaces >>>   Hewlett-Packard
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  52   03 / 19 / 2015   Apple Inc.   replaces >>>   AT&T
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  53   09 / 01 / 2017   E. I. DuPont merged with Dow Chemical
  creating DowDuPont
  * * * * * * * *
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  54   02 / 01 / 2018   Wal-Mart Stores renamed Walmart Inc.   * * * * * * * *
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  55   06 / 26 / 2018   Walgreens Boots Alliance   replaces >>>   General Electric
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  56   04 / 02 / 2019   Dow Inc.   replaces >>>   DowDuPont Inc.
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  57   04 / 06 / 2020   Raytheon Technologies Corp.   replaces >>>   United Technologies Corp.
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  58   08 / 31 / 2020   Amgen Inc.   replaces >>>   Exxon Mobil Corporation
  58     Honeywell International   replaces >>>   Pfizer Inc.
  58     Salesforce Inc.   replaces >>>   Raytheon Technologies
  ***   **********   **********   **********
  59   02 / 26 / 2024   Walmart Inc.   replaces >>>  Walgreen's Boots Alliance







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