Nifty Fifty

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.

• American Express
• American Home Products
• AMP
• Anheuser-Busch
• Avon Products
• Baxter Labs
• Black and 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
• International Business Machines
• International Flavors and Fragrances
• International Telephone and Telegraph
• J.C. Penney
• Johnson & Johnson Corporation
• 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
• Walt Disney
• Xerox

See also

• In India, the term Nifty Fifty refers to the constituents of the S&P CNX Nifty.

External links and references

• http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=50347