Here we tell you what FTSE stands for and provide you with a list of FTSE 100 companies.
FTSE stands for Financial Times Stock Exchange. The newspaper, Financial Times developed FTSE 100 which includes a list of the 100 largest companies rated according to their market value. The FTSE 100 index is a share index that holds the 100 most highly capitalized companies enlisted by the London Stock Exchange. The FTSE group is a company that evolved with the joined efforts of the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange.
What are the FTSE 100 Companies
The FTSE 100 companies represent around 80% of the market capitalization of the London Stock Exchange. FTSE 100 is widely used in the United Kingdom. Here is a list of the FTSE 100 companies.
- 3i
- Admiral Group
- Alliance Trust
- AMEC
- Anglo American
- Antofagasta
- Associated British Foods
- AstraZeneca
- Autonomy Corporation
- Aviva
- BAE Systems
- BG Group
- BHP Billiton
- BP
- BT Group
- Barclays Bank
- British Airways
- British American Tobacco
- British Energy Group
- British Land Company
- British Sky Broadcasting Group
- Bunzl
- Cable & Wireless
- Cadbury plc
- Cairn Energy
- Capita Group
- Carnival
- Centrica
- Cobham
- Compass Group
- Diageo
- Drax Group
- Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation
- Experian
- FirstGroup
- Fresnillo
- Friends Provident
- G4S
- GlaxoSmithKline
- HBOS
- HSBC
- Hammerson
- ICAP
- Imperial Tobacco
- Inmarsat
- InterContinental Hotels Group
- International Power
- Invensys
- Johnson Matthey
- Kazakhmys
- Kingfisher
- Land Securities Group
- Legal & General
- Liberty International
- Lloyds TSB
- London Stock Exchange Group
- Lonmin
- Man Group
- Marks & Spencer
- Wm Morrison Supermarkets
- National Grid
- Next
- Old Mutual
- Pearson
- Petrofac
- Prudential
- RSA Insurance Group
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Reed Elsevier
- Rexam
- Rio Tinto Group
- Rolls-Royce Group
- Royal Bank of Scotland Group
- Royal Dutch Shell
- SABMiller
- Sage Group
- J Sainsbury
- Schroders
- Scottish and Southern Energy
- Severn Trent
- Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
- Smith & Nephew
- Smiths Group
- Stagecoach Group
- Standard Chartered Bank
- Standard Life
- Tesco
- Thomas Cook Group
- Thomson Reuters
- TUI Travel
- Tullow Oil
- Unilever
- United Utilities
- Vedanta Resources
- Vodafone
- WPP Group
- Whitbread
- Wolseley
- Wood Group
- Xstrata
For more information on FTSE, you can refer to their official website.