What is the difference between Russell 3000 and Russell Top 200?

The Russell 3000 is a capitalization-weighted stock market index. It can serve as a barometer of the entire U.S. stock market. The Russell Top 200 index is a mega-cap equity index published by FTSE Russell. The index is composed of the 200 largest companies that are tracked in the Russell 3000 market index.

What is the Russell 2000 Index?

The term Russell 2000 Index refers to a stock market index that measures the performance of the 2,000 smaller companies included in the Russell 3000 Index. The Russell 2000 is managed by London's FTSE Russell Group and is widely regarded as a bellwether of the U.S. economy because of its focus on smaller companies that focus on the U.S. market.

What makes a company a Russell 2000 stock?

To be included in the Russell 2000, a company must first be in the Russell 3000, which includes about 96 percent of the U.S. stock market. FTSE Russell then ranks those companies by their market cap, and the bottom 2,000 make up the Russell 2000 Index. The top 1,000 companies make up the Russell 1000, which tracks large-cap companies.

What is the difference between Russell 2000 and S&P 500?

The Russell 2000 is an index that tracks two thousand small-cap companies, while the S&P 500 tracks five hundred large-cap companies. Therefore, the two differ in both the number of stocks in the index and the sizes of those companies. Because of this, there is not much overlap, if any, between the stocks held in each index.