Submitted by Mark Hanna
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ETFdb.com has a fun interactive piece on the history of the SPY ETF and its top 10 components through the years – it certainly is a trip through memory lane and for some of us pre-dates us due to age. Â For example in 1980, Standard Oil of Indiana and Standard Oil of California were top 10 components, along with Atlantic Richfield Company. Â Eastman Kodak was still a top 10 company in 1981. Â Sears Roebuck was still a top 10 company in 1985. Â Lucent Technologies and American Online in 1999, etc.
With the 20th birthday of this ETF coming in January 2013, we take a look back at the evolution of one of the best-known indexes over the past two decades. While some of the names remain the same, many components of the S&P 500 have undergone radical changes since the first ETF debuted. We start more than a full decade before the launch of SPY in 1980, when Standard Oil was a household name, Atlantic Richfield was one of the biggest companies in the world, and AAPL was only recently a public company.
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