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CAC 40
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blue-chip index consisting of the 40 major companies trading on Euronext Paris
Key facts
- Foundation
- 31 December 1987
- Operator
- Euronext
- Exchanges
- Euronext Paris
- Trading symbol
- ^FCHI
- Type
- Large cap
- Market cap
- €2.670 trillion (26 February 2026)
- Weighting method
- Free-float capitalization-weighted
- Related indices
- CAC Next 20 , CAC Small
- Website
- www.euronext.com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The CAC 40 ( French pronunciation: [kak kaʁɑ̃t]) (Cotation Assistée en Continu) is a benchmark French stock market index. The index represents a capitalization-weighted measure of the 40 most significant stocks among the 100 largest market caps on the Euronext Paris (formerly the Paris Bourse). It is a price return index. It is one of the main national indices of the pan-European stock exchange group Euronext alongside Euronext Amsterdam's AEX, Euronext Brussels' BEL20, Euronext Dublin's ISEQ 20, Euronext Lisbon's PSI-20 and the Oslo Bors OBX Index. It is an index without dividends. Cotation operates every working day from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It is updated every 15 seconds.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “CAC 40” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.