standard and poor's
Definition
- Proper noun:
- A major financial services company and index provider: Standard & Poor's (often abbreviated as S&P) is a leading American financial services company. It is best known for its stock market indices, such as the S&P 500, which are widely used benchmarks for tracking the performance of the U.S. stock market.
- A specific stock market index: The term is commonly used to refer to the company's flagship index, the S&P 500, which measures the stock performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
Usage Examples
Proper noun (referring to the company):
- The credit rating was downgraded by Standard & Poor's.
- Investors rely on analysis from Standard & Poor's.
Proper noun (referring to the index):
- The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 2% today.
- Many mutual funds are benchmarked against Standard & Poor's.
Advanced Usage
"S&P": The common abbreviation for Standard & Poor's.
- The S&P 500 is a key economic indicator.
"S&P 500": The specific, most famous index.
- Her portfolio is designed to mirror the S&P 500.
Variants and Related Words
S&P Global (Proper noun): The current corporate name of the parent company that owns Standard & Poor's.
- The report was published by S&P Global Ratings.
S&P 500 Index (Proper noun): The full, formal name of the index.
- The S&P 500 Index reached a new high.
Synonyms
- Index provider (noun phrase): A company that creates and maintains market indices.
- Benchmark index (noun phrase): A standard against which the performance of a security or portfolio is measured.
Related Phrases
S&P rating (noun phrase): A credit rating issued by Standard & Poor's.
- The country's S&P rating is AA-.
Track the SP (verb phrase): To have an investment performance that follows the movements of the S&P 500 index.
- This ETF is designed to track the SP.
Noun
- a broadly based stock market index
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