vs Yesterday
+152
Daily swings of 100–250 points are typical.
30 Blue-Chip U.S. Stocks
Dow Jones Industrial Average
42,485
+152 vs. yesterday (+0.36%)
Past 12 months
39,850 – 42,820
vs Last Year+2,150
YoY Return+5.3%
All-Time High42,820
The Dow sits at 42,485 — within striking distance of the May 8 all-time high at 42,820. Up +5.3% YoY in price terms, +7.0% with dividends reinvested.
Historical trend
Daily close.
Source: Stooq · S&P Dow Jones Indices
The long view: since 1932
From the Depression-era low at 41 to today's 42,485.
ATH 42,820 · May 8, 2026
Crisis low 6,547 · Mar 9, 2009
Today 42,485
How today stacks up
vs Last Year
+2,150
+5.3% YoY — solid trend continuation.
5-Year Average
37,800
Today is +4,685 above the 5-yr mean.
From ATH
−0.8%
Within striking distance of the May 8 record.
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About the Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is the oldest continuously-published U.S. stock market index, dating to 1896. It tracks 30 large blue-chip U.S. companies — Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Goldman Sachs, and so on. Unlike most modern indexes, the Dow is price-weighted: higher-priced stocks have more influence regardless of company size. Today's 42,485 is roughly 2x the 2017 level and 6.5x the 2009 crisis low.
What moves the Dow
The Dow tracks closely with the S&P 500 (correlation ~0.95) but with quirks: a $5 move in UnitedHealth ($550 stock) has the same index impact as a $5 move in Verizon ($40 stock), even though UnitedHealth is many times larger by market cap. That makes the Dow less representative of "the U.S. economy" than the S&P 500, but more visible — its three-comma numbers (the Dow crossed 1,000, 10,000, 30,000 etc.) make headlines that the S&P's smaller numbers don't.
Reading today's level
The Dow hit its all-time high of 42,820 on May 8, 2026, just six days ago. The 2020 COVID crash bottomed at 18,591 — the Dow has nearly tripled since. The Volcker-era inflation washout took it to 14,164 by October 2007 before the GFC drove it down to 6,547. Every long-term holder over those windows came out massively ahead.
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Frequently asked
What this number means, and what it doesn't.
It was set at 30 in 1928 (originally 12 in 1896) for tractability — the index was calculated by hand for decades. The S&P Dow Jones Indices committee selects the 30 to be representative of major U.S. industries; companies join/leave over time (Exxon was dropped in 2020 after 92 years).
Sum the 30 stock prices, divide by the "Dow Divisor" (currently about 0.156). The divisor adjusts whenever stocks split or get replaced, keeping the index continuous. Higher-priced stocks dominate — UnitedHealth ($550) influences the Dow far more than Verizon ($40), even though both are similar-sized businesses.
For broader U.S. market exposure, the S&P 500 (500 stocks, market-cap weighted) is more representative. For news headlines and historical context, the Dow remains iconic. Most index funds and ETFs track the S&P; the Dow has its own ETF (DIA) but at lower volume.
Standard U.S. equity hours: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM ET, Monday–Friday. Pre-market and after-hours futures trading happens 24/5. Components also trade on global exchanges (London, Frankfurt) outside U.S. hours.
10,000: March 29, 1999 · 20,000: January 25, 2017 · 30,000: November 24, 2020 · 40,000: May 16, 2024. Each milestone marked a roughly 6–9 year window of growth.
Methodology
Source
Pulled from Stooq / S&P Dow Jones and cached on the EvvyTools server.
Update schedule
Refreshed automatically by our cron whenever the upstream source publishes a new value. Historical values are not revised after publication.
How we compute
Display value is the raw published number, unrounded. Comparison stats use the closest available reference date. We never edit the underlying data.