Nifty Fifty
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The Nifty Fifty were fifty stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange that propelled the bull market of the early 1970s. Most are still solid performers, though a few are now defunct or otherwise worthless, and some others have been acquired by or merged with other companies.
- American Express
- American Home Products
- AMP
- Anheuser-Busch
- Avon Products
- Baxter Labs
- Black & Decker
- Bristol-Myers
- Burroughs
- American Hospital Supply Corp.
- Chesebrough-Ponds
- Coca-Cola
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Dow Chemical
- Eastman Kodak
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Emery Air Freight
- First National City Bank
- General Electric
- Gillette
- Halliburton
- Heublein Brewing Company
- IBM
- International Flavors and Fragrances
- International Telephone and Telegraph
- J.C. Penney
- Johnson & Johnson
- Louisiana Home and Exploration
- Lubrizol
- Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M)
- McDonald's
- Merck & Co.
- M.G.I.C. Investment Corporation
- PepsiCo
- Pfizer
- Philip Morris Cos.
- Polaroid
- Procter & Gamble
- Revlon
- Schering Plough
- Joe Schlitz Brewing
- Schlumberger
- Sears Roebuck & Co.
- Simplicity Patterns
- Squibb
- S.S. Kresge
- Texas Instruments
- Upjohn
- The Walt Disney Company
- Xerox
See also
- In India, the term Nifty Fifty refers to the constituents of the S&P CNX Nifty.