Reading more, beyond the bottom line... Membership in major stock indices is good...
Potential Index Membership: If your stock is not currently a member of an index, but is likely to be added, this could cause your stock's price to go up based on this speculation, or the actual news that it will be added. If your stock is added to an index, it then requires index fund managers to buy it for inclusion into their fund.
Current Index Membership: Indicates legitimacy factor for your stock which supports a positive competitive point of difference versus its competitors in the same industry. Also requires index fund managers to purchase the stock.
Being Dropped from Index Membership: This indicates poor support for your stock, and may warrant your serious consideration to sell the stock, given the inherent downward pressure on the share price.
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Membership Has Its Privileges... ... and multiple memberships add even more legitimacy and credibility to your stock's support system. If a stock is a member of one or more stock indices, then individual index fund managers are required to purchase all stocks in the index. Therefore, being a member of multiple stock indices (as Intel apparently is found to be, as indicated below) magnifies that benefit and credibility as a stock continues to be evaluate by future prospective share buyers.
Index Membership also allows more institutional investors will be allowed to buy shares.
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List of Index Membership: Intel is a member of six (6) major indices:
Dow Jones Composite
Dow Industrials
S&P 100
S&P 500
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Nasdaq 100 [link to this information - here >]
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