The United States is no longer primarily an industrial economy, and the changes in the index over the last 126 years reflect that evolution.
Beyond that, there are two other major issues indicating that Boeing no longer belongs in the Dow.
Trying to stay relevantBoeing obviously wasn’t an early component of the Dow — the index started seven years before the first plane flew at Kitty Hawk, and 20 years before Boeing was incorporated.
In 2020, the Dow dropped ExxonMobil, then struggling with low oil prices during the pandemic, and added tech company Salesforce, then on a tear.
Boeing declined to comment when asked about its membership in the Dow.
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