What Do Charts Say About the Dow? 3 Favorite Stocks That Could Lead a Year-End Push.

For one, the Dow is a price-weighted index unlike the market-cap-weighted and It has also evolved significantly from the version many of our parents followed. In the late 1990s, the Dow Industrials index began shifting toward a more growth-oriented profile, adding technology companies like Microsoft and Intel More recently, it added Apple and Nvidia continuing that trend. Despite this evolution, the Dow continues to lag on a relative basis.