The Boeing Company (BA): The Wealth of a Galaxy Not So Far Away

Joining the NYSE was a sort of initiation process for DuPont, which joined the Dow for the first time a mere two years after it began trading on the Big Board. This was a period of rapid change for the Dow and for the United States, as the market was in the early stages of one of the greatest multiyear rallies in history. DuPont wouldn’t gain permanent (or at least durable) placement on the Dow until 1935. Its 78-year tenure is one of the longest streaks out of the Dow’s 30 components, but it accounts for only a third of DuPont’s total corporate life.

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