Talk:List of S&P 500 companies

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Contents 1 Naming convention for Companies and Businesses 1.1 Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies)/poll 2 Please do not edit text of listing. 3 Updating category 4 Current list of missing articles for S&P 500 companies 5 5 March 2007 changes + issues to consider

[edit] Naming convention for Companies and Businesses

I just wanted to draw attention and comment to on a draft poll to determine naming convention for companies and businesses. I have looked around a number of places and have only seen comments to the effect of "we should have a convention" or "do we have a convention" on how to name a XXX company. This has either the effect of drawing a few uninterested comments or a stirring up a heated debate. In either case the net result is generally zero. Your comments to help clarify this poll and later corresponding vote would be greatly appreciated. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 17:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies)/poll

Voting has begun and will continue until March 5. Please resolve this lagging issue. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please do not edit text of listing.

Please do not edit the text of the listing. This is the list as it comes from S&P. Please make redirects for companies better known by other names instead of editing their listing. This enables easier updates from the S&P list. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo 00:49, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Updating category

There is also a category (Category:S&P 500). Is there any desire to keep that synced with this list? -- Bovineone 06:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current list of missing articles for S&P 500 companies

Updated 6 March 2007:

List of missing articles for S&P 500 companies^[1]

Company	Ticker symbol	SEC filings	Industry
Applera Corp-Applied Biosystems Group	ABI	reports	Life Sciences Tools & Services
Archstone-Smith Trust	ASN	reports	Residential REITs
BJ Services	BJS	reports	Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Bard (C.R.) Inc.	BCR	reports	Health Care Equipment
Century Telephone	CTL	reports	Integrated Telecommunication Services
Equity Residential	EQR	reports	Residential REITs
Hudson City Bancorp	HCBK	reports	Thrifts & Mortgage Finance
Kimco Realty	KIM	reports	Retail REITs
Laboratory Corp. of America Holding	LH	reports	Health Care Services
Millipore Corp.	MIL	reports	Life Sciences Tools & Services
Noble Corporation	NE	reports	Oil & Gas Drilling
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	reports	Electric Utilities
Questar Corp.	STR	reports	Gas Utilities
Spectra Energy Corp.	SE	reports	Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation
Zions Bancorp	ZION	reports	Regional Banks

1. ^ Standard & Poor - Indices S&P 500 (Excel). Standard & Poor's (2007-03-01). Retrieved on 2007-03-04.

--A. B. ^(talk) 15:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 5 March 2007 changes + issues to consider

Yesterday, I replaced the existing list with the 1 March 2007 list of S&P 500 constituents from the Standard and Poor's website. While I was at it, I also added ticker symbols, each company's industry (as listed by S&P) and links to each company's filings at www.sec.gov. I created new redirects for companies whose article names did not match the names S&P used. I also made sure each company was listed in Category:S&P 500.

The convention observed previously with this article has been to use exactly the S&P nomenclature, which I have done, however I think we may want to rethink a few:

• Companies with "(New)" in their listing such as Fluor Corp. (New)
• Companies with a specific class of stock in their listing such as Dynegy Inc. (New) Class A and Scripps (E. W.) 'A'
  • S&P's list is more precisely a list of equity securities, while this list is of companies

Perhaps these types of situations might be best handled with footnotes, for example:

• Fluor Corp.^[1]
  • ¹ Fluor Corporation was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:FLR) in 1957 and later acquired. In 2000, Fluor was spun out of Massey Energy and the "new" Fluor Corporation was relisted on the NYSE.
• Scripps (E. W.)^[2]
  • ² Scripps has two classes of common stock, "Voting shares" and "Class A". Class A shares are used in S&P 500 index calculations

What do others think? (And does anyone have any problems with the expanded information I added yesterday?) --A. B. ^(talk) 16:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

In the past, I had truncated the "(New)" where it was listed. I also removed the "class A" where I was able to find it. The footnotes would be fine with me, but may be hard to maintain as the S&P list gets updated in the future. I don't see anything wrong with the expanded info, the update looks good to me. Thanks for your work. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 17:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Footnotes don't add much beyond trivia better included in the company's article -- I like the truncation approach better. I'll do that for now -- if anybody disagrees, they should feel free to revert me. --A. B. ^(talk) 17:59, 6 March 2007 (UTC)