McDonald's Stock, Up 30.71% in 2011, Tops All Dow Components
IBM, Pfizer, Home Depot, Kraft Foods Round Out Top 5
NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 2011 with a gain of 5.53%, the third consecutive year that the bellwether index has finished in positive territory, according to data compiled by Dow Jones Indexes. Taken together – from the beginning of 2009's trading through today's final 2011 session -- The Dow is up 39.21%.
Leading all 30 Dow components in 2011 was McDonald's Corp. whose stock rose 30.71%; shares of the world's largest fast-food chain have now finished up in 28 of the last 32 years.
IBM Corp. (up 25.29%) and Pfizer Inc. (23.59%) closed 2011 as The Dow's second- and third-leading performers, respectively. McDonald's, IBM and Pfizer were the only Dow components to gain more than 20% in 2011. Home Depot Inc. (up 19.91%) and Kraft Foods Inc. (class A shares, up 18.57%) rounded out The Dow's top five 2011 performers.
Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's and Home Depot, based in Atlanta, are the only DJIA components to repeat their Top Five showings from 2010, when they finished third and fourth with gains of 22.93% and 21.19%, respectively, from 2009's close.
The Dow's worst-performing stock of 2011 was Bank of America Corp. whose shares closed down 58.32%, nearly 15 percentage points worse than Alcoa Inc. (down 43.79%).
Shares of Caterpillar Inc., which led all Dow stocks in 2010 with a 64.34% improvement from the previous year, fell 3.27% in 2011 to rank 21st . Hewlett-Packard Co., The Dow's worst-performing stock of 2010 (down 18.27%), finished 28th in 2011 with a decline of 38.81%.
All referenced index and component performance values are based on price returns.
Below, is additional Dow Jones Industrial Average performance statistics for 2011, 2011's fourth quarter, December 2011, 2011's final week and 2011's final trading session; also please find a list of The Dow's 30 stocks and how they performed in 2011 and 2010:
- DJIA, 12217.56
- Up 640.05 points, or 5.53%, in 2011.
- Up for the third consecutive year.
- Up 39.21%, over the three-year period.
- Up 1304.18 points, or 11.95% in the 4th quarter.
- Up nine of the last 11 quarters.
- Biggest quarter points gain since the 4th quarter 1998, when it rose 1338.81.
- Biggest quarterly percentage gain since the third quarter 2009, when it rose 14.98%.
- Best 4th quarter percentage performance in eight years, since 2003 when it gained 12.71%.
- The DJIA has gained in 27 of the last 32 -- 4th quarters.
- In its history, the DJIA's has averaged a gain of 2.72% in the 4th quarter, compared with 1.49%, 1.67% and 1.61%, in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarter, respectively.
- Up 171.88 points, or 1.43%, in December.
- Up three consecutive months.
- Third up December in a row.
- This week: DJIA, down 76.44 points, or 0.62%.
- Down two of the last three weeks.
- Today: DJIA, down 69.48 points, or 0.57%.
- Down three of the last four trading days.
- An intraday high of 12290.06 today, up 3.02 points, or 0.02%.
- An intraday low of 12213.78 today, down 73.26 points, or 0.60%.
- Seven of the 30 component stocks rose, 23 fell.
- Today's top five contributors to The Dow's movement and their point contribution: HPQ (1.06), BAC (0.76), T (0.53), VZ (0.53), HD (0.23).
- Today's bottom five laggards: IBM (-17.41), CVX (-8.10), BA (-5.75), UTX (-5.52), XOM (-3.86).
- Down 1946.97 points, or 13.75% from its record close of 14164.53 on October 9, 2007.
- Up 86.61% from its 12-year closing low of 6547.05 on March 9, 2009.
- Down 4.63% from its 2011 closing high of 12810.54 on April 29.
| Dow Jones Industrial Average | 2011 |
| components | Performance |
| 1. McDonald's Corp. | 30.71% |
| 2. International Business Machines Corp. | 25.29% |
| 3. Pfizer Inc. | 23.59% |
| 4. Home Depot Inc. | 19.91% |
| 5. Kraft Foods Inc. Cl A | 18.57% |
| 6. Chevron Corp. | 16.6% |
| 7. Exxon Mobil Corp. | 15.92% |
| 8. Intel Corp. | 15.31% |
| 9. Boeing Co. | 12.4% |
| 10. Verizon Communications Inc | 12.13% |
| 11. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. | 10.81% |
| 12. American Express Co. | 9.90% |
| 13. Coca-Cola Co | 6.39% |
| 14. Travelers Cos. Inc. | 6.21% |
| 15 Johnson & Johnson | 6.03% |
| 16. Merck & Co. Inc. | 4.61% |
| 17. Procter & Gamble Co. | 3.70% |
| 18. AT&T Inc. | 2.93% |
| 19. Walt Disney Co. | -0.03% |
| 20. General Electric Co. | -2.08% |
| 21. Caterpillar Inc. | -3.27% |
| 22. 3M Co. | -5.30% |
| 23. Microsoft Corp. | -7.02% |
| 24 United Technologies Corp | -7.15% |
| 25. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. | -8.22% |
| 26. Cisco Systems Inc. | -10.63% |
| 27. JPMorgan Chase & Co. | -21.62% |
| 28. Hewlett-Packard Co. | -38.81% |
| 29. Alcoa Inc. | -43.79% |
| 30. Bank of America Corp. | -58.32% |
| Dow Jones Industrial Average | 2010 |
| components | Performance |
| 1. Caterpillar Inc. | 64.34% |
| 2. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. | 48.14% |
| 3. McDonald's Corp. | 22.93% |
| 4. Home Depot Inc. | 21.19% |
| 5. General Electric Co. | 20.89% |
| 6. Boeing Co. | 20.56% |
| 7. Chevron Corp. | 18.52% |
| 8. Walt Disney Co. | 16.31% |
| 9. Kraft Foods Inc. Cl A | 15.93% |
| 10. Verizon Communications Inc. | 15.57% |
| 11. Coca-Cola Co. | 15.39% |
| 12. United Technologies Corp. | 13.41% |
| 13. International Business Machines Corp. | 12.12% |
| 14. Travelers Cos. Inc. | 11.73% |
| 15. Exxon Mobil Corp. | 7.23% |
| 16. Procter & Gamble Co. | 6.10% |
| 17. American Express Co. | 5.92% |
| 18. AT&T Inc. | 4.82% |
| 19. 3M Co. | 4.39% |
| 20. Intel Corp. | 3.09% |
| 21. JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1.80% |
| 22. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. | 0.90% |
| 23. Merck & Co. Inc. | -1.37% |
| 24. Pfizer Inc. | -3.74% |
| 25. Johnson & Johnson | -3.97% |
| 26. Alcoa Inc. | -4.53% |
| 27. Microsoft Corp. | -8.43% |
| 28. Bank of America Corp. | -11.42% |
| 29. Cisco Systems Inc. | -15.50% |
| 30. Hewlett-Packard Co. | -18.27% |
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