Great! Verizon has been booted from the Dow!
Alphabet will join mega-cap tech peers Nvidia, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft in the blue-chip index.
Verizon had represented just around one-half of a percentage point in the index because of its low share price, S&P Global said. The Dow is a price-weighted index, meaning that each member stock is weighted based on its share price. As a result, a company with a higher price per share will have more sway over the index.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/alphabet-to-replace-verizon-in-dow-jones-industrial-reshuffle-021307109.html
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/google-parent-alphabet-to-replace-verizon-in-dow-jones-industrial-average-d8dfe852