Top blue chip companies

This website provides you information about the best blue chip stocks in the world. Have a look at the greatest companies! You can list blue chip stocks by country or by index they take part in. The most famous indices are DJIA, CAC40, DAX30, SP500 or the STOXX family.

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What are blue chips?

Definition of blue chip stocks, blue chip companies and blue chip indices. Have in mind, that blue chips are not only tech or nano technology stocks!

Blue chip stocks definition

Blue chip stock is qualified as a high-quality and usually high-priced stock. It has high price because of public confidence in company's long record of steady earnings. Listing of the world best blue chip stocks.

What is a blue chip company?

Blue chip company is very strong financially, with a solid track record of producing earnings and only a moderate amount of debt. It also has a strong name in its industry with dominant products or services. Typically, these companies are large (international) corporations that have been in business for many years and are considered to be very stable. There is no formal requirement for being a blue chip.

Blue chip indices

Blue chip index is indicator used to measure and report value changes in representative stock groupings. It is often price-weighted, it means that stocks with the highest prices will have the most influence and those with the lowest, the least influence.

Blue chip indices

There are many indices that consist of blue chip stocks. The well known is the Dow Jones Industrial Average that is a price-weighted average of 30 blue chip stocks. Some countries have their special index. One of the examples is: Dow Jones India Titans 30 that is a price-weighted average of 30 blue chip stocks.

Selected indices

CAC 40 index Deutscher Aktien IndeX 30 Dow Jones India Titans 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average Dow Jones STOXX blue chip family Standard & Poors 500 Standard & Poors ASX 20 India's Mumbai Stock Exchage SENSEX

India BSE Sensex

The BSE Sensex (Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index) is a value-weighted market capitalized index that tracks the 30 largest and most actively traded stocks from the Mumbai (Bombay) Stock Exchange, which are representative of the stocks from various sectors of the Mumbai Stock Exchange. They account for approximately one fifth of the capitalization of the indian exchange.

BSE Sensex Value

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List of companies included in the BSE Sensex index

Following list includes all the blue chip stocks in the Sensex index in alphabetical order.
BSE Ticker BE:500410 ACC Ltd. BE:500103 Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. BE:532454 Bharti Airtel Ltd. BE:532868 DLF Ltd. BE:500300 Grasim Industries Ltd. BE:500182 Hero Honda Motors Ltd. BE:500010 HDFC BE:500180 HDFC Bank Ltd. BE:500440 Hindalco Industries Ltd. BE:500696 Hindustan Unilever Ltd. BE:532174 ICICI Bank Ltd. BE:500209 Infosys Technologies Ltd. BE:500875 ITC Ltd. Name Sector Housing Related Capital Goods Telecom Housing Related Diversified Transport Equipments Finance Finance Metal,Metal Products & Mining FMCG Finance Information Technology FMCG

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Name

Sector Housing Related Capital Goods Transport Equipments Transport Equipments Power Oil & Gas

BE:532532 Jaiprakash Associates Ltd. BE:500510 Larsen & Toubro Limited BE:500520 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. BE:532500 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. BE:532555 NTPC Ltd. BE:500312 ONGC Ltd.

BE:532712 Reliance Communications Limited Telecom BE:500325 Reliance Industries Ltd. BE:500390 Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. BE:500112 State Bank of India BE:500900 Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd. Oil & Gas Power Finance Metal,Metal Products & Mining

BE:524715 Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Healthcare BE:532540 Tata Consultancy Services Limited Information Technology BE:500570 Tata Motors Ltd. BE:500400 Tata Power Company Ltd. BE:500470 Tata Steel Ltd. BE:507685 Wipro Ltd. Transport Equipments Power Metal Products & Mining Information Technology

This list of BSE Sensex components was updated on 29 Dec 2009.

History of blue chips

Do you want to know the history of blue chip stocks? The phrase was coined by Oliver Gingold of Dow Jones about the year 1923. Gingold was standing by the stock ticker at the brokerage firm that later became Merrill Lynch. Noticing several trades at $200 or $250 a share or more, he said to Lucien Hooper of W.E. Hutton &

Co. that he intended to return to the office to write about these blue chip stocks. The phrase has been in use ever since, originally in reference to high-priced and high-quality stocks.

How to buy blue chip stocks 1. Study the company you want to trade
Don't buy stocks only because some numbers told you to do so. Be sure to understand the difference between market capitalization and the value of the company itself. Please read the recent annual and quarterly reports of the company (SEC 10-Ks and 10-Qs). Read all possible analyst reports and make your judgement.

2. Study all legal and tax requirements

Trading stocks is not an easy thing for a beginner. You have to be sure that everything you make is legal and won't harm you in the future. In some countries if you sell a stock back in less than six months you would have to pay additional taxes apart from the fees to the trading system. Check if you can buy international stocks or if it is better for you to stick to your local ones.

3. Understand your trading system

If you use an online broker, always compare the fee againts its competitors. You have to know all possible costs before you send them an initial deposit of funds. This initial deposit can be from USD 500 to 2000, so you're not playing with a small money you can easily loose. Look for all full-service brokers, discount brokers and normal online brokers and find one that suits you the best. Try to estimate if all transactional fees are not higher than your predicted gain from the stock. If you pay USD 10 for a transaction, but after selling a stock you get just USD 5 of additional money, then this is probably not worth the hassle.

4. Start slowly
You don't have to buy all stocks that you consider to be blue chips. It's not a shame to buy just few stocks a month and don't trade for several weeks.

Stock Exchanges around the World

This is the list of all 245 important stock exchanges in Europe, Asia, Americas and Africa:

Abu Dhabi Securities Market Abuja Securities and Commodities Exchange Afghanistan Stock Exchange Agricultural Commodities Exchange of Zambia Ahmedabad Stock Exchange Algiers Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange Amman Stock Exchange

Arizona Stock Exchange Armenian Stock Exchange Athens Stock Exchange Bahamas International Securities Exchange Bahrain Stock Exchange Baku Stock Exchange Bangalore Stock Exchange Banja Luka Stock Exchange Barbados Stock Exchange Beirut Stock Exchange Belarus Currency and Stock Exchange Belgrade Stock Exchange Berliner Brse Bermuda Stock Exchange Bern eXchange Bhubaneshwar Stock Exchange Bolsa Boliviana de Valores Bolsa Centroamericana de Valores Bolsa de Cereais e Mercardorias de Maring Bolsa de Valores de Barcelona Bolsa de Valores de Bilbao Bolsa de Valores de Cabo Verde Bolsa de Valores de Caracas Bolsa de Valores de Colombia Bolsa de Valores de El Salvador Bolsa de Valores de Guayaquil Bolsa de Valores de la Repblica Dominicana Bolsa de Valores de Lima Bolsa de Valores de Moambique Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo Bolsa de Valores de Nicaragua Bolsa de Valores de Panam Bolsa de Valores de Quito Bolsa de Valores de Valencia Bolsa de Valores Minas Esprito Santo Braslia Bolsa de Valores y Productos de Asuncin Bolsa Electronica de Chile Bolsa Electronica de Valores de Uruguay Bolsa Honduras de Valores Bolsa Mexicana de Valores Bolsa Nacional de Valores Bombay Stock Exchange Borsa Italiana Brse Mnchen Brse Stuttgart Brsen Hamburg und Hannover Boston Stock Exchange Botswana Stock Exchange Bourse des Valeurs Mobilires de Tunis Bourse Rgionale des Valeurs Mobilires

Bovespa Bratislava Stock Exchange Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange Budapest Stock Exchange Buenos Aires Stock Exchange Bucharest Stock Exchange Bulgarian Stock Exchange Calcutta Stock Exchange Cambodia Securities Exchange Canadian National Stock Exchange Casablanca Stock Exchange Cayman Islands Stock Exchange Centrex Cochin Stock Exchange Coimbatore Stock Exchange Colombo Stock Exchange Copenhagen Stock Exchange Cyprus Stock Exchange Damascus Securities Exchange Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange Delhi Stock Exchange Association Deutsche Brse Group Dhaka Stock Exchange Direct Edge Doha Securities Market Douala Stock Exchange Dubai Financial Market Dutch Caribbean Securities Exchange Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange Egyptian Exchange Eurex Euronext Euronext Amsterdam Euronext Brussels Euronext Lisbon Euronext Paris Faroese Securities Market Frankfurt Stock Exchange Fukuoka Stock Exchange Georgian Stock Exchange Ghana Stock Exchange Gibraltar Stock Exchange Guwahati Stock Exchange Guyana Stock Exchange GXG Markets Haitian Stock Exchange Hanoi Securities Trading Center HedgeStreet Helsinki Stock Exchange Hercules formerly Nasdaq Japan

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Mangalore Stock Exchange Market for Alternative Investment MATIF MCX Stock Exchange Meerut Stock Exchange Mercado Abierto Electrnico Mercado Oficial Espaol de Futuros y Opciones Moldova Stock Exchange Mongolian Stock Exchange Montenegro Stock Exchange Montral Exchange Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange Muscat Securities Market Myanmar Securities Exchange Centre Nagoya Stock Exchange Nairobi Stock Exchange Namibia Stock Exchange NASDAQ Nasdaq Canada NASDAQ Dubai National Stock Exchange National Stock Exchange of India Nepal Stock Exchange New York Board of Trade New York Stock Exchange Nigerian Stock Exchange Nordic Growth Market NYSE Arca OMX OPEX Osaka Securities Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange OTC Exchange of India Palestine Securities Exchange PFTS Ukraine Stock Exchange Philadelphia Stock Exchange Philippine Dealing Exchange Philippine Stock Exchange PLUS Markets Port Moresby Stock Exchange Prague Stock Exchange Pune Stock Exchange Q-Board RASDAQ Riga Stock Exchange Rio de Janeiro Stock Exchange Rosario Stock Exchange Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan Russian Trading System

Rwanda Stock Exchange Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange Santiago Stock Exchange Sapporo Securities Exchange Sarajevo Stock Exchange Saurashtra Kutch Stock Exchange Seychelles Stock Exchange Shanghai Stock Exchange Shenzhen Stock Exchange Sialkot Stock Exchange Sibiu Stock Exchange (futures) Singapore Exchange SIX Swiss Exchange Stock Exchange of Mauritius Stock Exchange of Singapore Stock Exchange of Thailand Stockholm Stock Exchange Swaziland Stock Exchange Tadawul Taiwan Stock Exchange Tallinn Stock Exchange Tehran Stock Exchange Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Tirana Stock Exchange Tokyo Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange TSX Venture Exchange Uganda Securities Exchange Ukrainian Exchange United Stock Exchange of India UP Stock Exchange Vadodara Stock Exchange Valparaso Stock Exchange Vienna Stock Exchange Vilnius Stock Exchange Warsaw Stock Exchange Zagreb Stock Exchange Zimbabwe Stock Exchange

India blue chips

Best blue chip companies in India.

The very well-known stocks are included in the Dow Jones India Titans 30 or Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex index. Most liquid stocks are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India.

BSE Sensex
This index represents top 30 indian companies. The top three companies in the BSE Sensex index by market capitalization are:
1. Reliance Industries Ltd. 2. Infosys Technologies Ltd. 3. ICICI Bank Ltd.

See more about BSE Sensex blue chip companies.

Dow Jones India Titans 30

The top five companies in the Dow Jones index by market capitalization are:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Reliance Industries Ltd. Infosys Technologies Ltd. HDFC Ltd. Bharti Airtel Ltd. Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

See more about Dow Jones India Titans 30 blue chip companies.

Indian industry
The most prominent sectors in the index are financials, basic materials and oil and gas.

Examples of indian blue chip companies

20 example of interesting indian organisations follows:

Bharti Airtel BPCL Dr.Reddy HDFC HPCL ICICI Bank Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Infosys ITC Mahindra&Mahindra

National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ranbaxy Reliance Communications Reliance industries State Bank of India (SBI) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Tata Motors Tata Steel Wipro

Sources of information for India's stocks