Price weight vs cap weight across a stand-in basket
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-10-04, from Stock Splits and the Dow Divisor, Explained.
| symbol | share_price | price_weight_pct | cap_weight_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| GS | 902.56 | 19.51 | 2.07 |
| CAT | 845.42 | 18.27 | 3.05 |
| MSFT | 517.53 | 11.19 | 30.21 |
| AMGN | 403.04 | 8.71 | 1.71 |
| V | 360.66 | 7.8 | 5.32 |
| AAPL | 333.69 | 7.21 | 38.28 |
| AXP | 302.78 | 6.54 | 1.61 |
| HD | 282.85 | 6.11 | 2.22 |
| JNJ | 256.03 | 5.53 | 4.85 |
| MCD | 231.89 | 5.01 | 1.29 |
| WMT | 104.26 | 2.25 | 6.5 |
| KO | 85.65 | 1.85 | 2.9 |
- Rows × columns
- 12 × 4
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 12 distinct values (AAPL, AMGN, AXP…) | |
share_price |
number | 85.65 to 902.56 | US dollars |
price_weight_pct |
number | 1.85 to 19.51 | percent |
cap_weight_pct |
number | 1.29 to 38.28 | percent |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
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WITH members AS
(
SELECT
ticker,
argMax(toFloat64(price), date) AS last_price,
argMax(toFloat64(market_cap), date) AS last_cap
FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL','AMGN','AXP','CAT','GS','HD','JNJ','KO','MCD','MSFT','V','WMT')
AND date >= today() - 45
AND price > 0
AND market_cap > 0
GROUP BY ticker
),
totals AS
(
SELECT
sum(last_price) AS price_sum,
sum(last_cap) AS cap_sum
FROM members
)
SELECT
m.ticker AS symbol,
round(m.last_price, 2) AS share_price,
round(100 * m.last_price / t.price_sum, 2) AS price_weight_pct,
round(100 * m.last_cap / t.cap_sum, 2) AS cap_weight_pct
FROM members AS m
CROSS JOIN totals AS t
ORDER BY price_weight_pct DESC
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