By Ryne Mauck
Publication Date: 2026-09-25 22:00:00
One number buried inside a popular Dow ETF quietly hands a smaller company more of your retirement dollars than a corporate giant worth more than ten times as much, and the reason has nothing to do with performance, profit, or…
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Here is a number every Dow ETF holder should know. Goldman Sachs carries a market value of roughly $272 billion. Microsoft is worth about $3.7 trillion. Yet inside the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEARCA:DIA), Goldman gets a bigger slice of your money than Microsoft. The only reason is share price.
Share Price Sets Your Weights
DIA tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is price-weighted. A stock with a higher dollar price per share gets a larger weight in the index, regardless of the company’s revenue, profit, or market capitalization. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS | GS Price Prediction) closed at…
