At United Reprographics, our most valuable assets are our people. We employ and retain the most experienced printing professionals for all of our key positions. Machines cannot perform the type of quality control that is necessary to ensure the level of service that we are committed to delivering.
The S&P 500 is a market value weighted index and one of the common benchmarks for the U.S. stock market; other S&P indexes include small cap companies with market capitalization between $300 million and $2 billion, and an index of mid cap companies.
It covers about 70% of the marketâs total value, so in those terms it is much closer to representing the true market than the Dow. The S&P 500 is a market capitalization or market cap weighted index, as are almost all of the major indexes. Weighting by market cap gives more importance to larger companies, so changes in Microsoft stock will have a greater impact than almost any other stock in the index.