Company’s that Comprise the BSE Sensex

The BSE Sensex or Sensex as it is more commonly called is one of two premier Indices in India. It is the index that depicts the movement of the Bombay Stock Exchange or BSE. In one of our earlier posts, we had taken a look at what the BSE is. To view that post "click here".

In this post, we are going to take a look at the 30 company’s that comprise this Sensex Index.

To Recap:
BSE Sensex is the weighted average of the price movement of the 30 largest company’s that are listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange. This list of company’s may change from time to time and the Exchange will always release the news of replacement of any company in the Sensex to the public beforehand.
Below is the list of 30 company’s that comprise the BSE Sensex along with their Industry and Weightage.

Note: A company with 1% weightage will have to increase twice as much as one with a 2% weightage in order to move the index up or down by the same number.

Company Name	Industry	Weightage
Bajaj Auto	Auto - 2 & 3 Wheelers	1.51
Bharti Airtel	Telecommunications - Service	4.63
BHEL	Engineering - Heavy	2.38
Cipla	Pharmaceuticals	0.99
Coal India	Mining/Minerals	7.91
DLF	Construction & Contracting - Real Estate	1.22
GAIL	Oil Drilling And Exploration	1.73
HDFC	Finance - Housing	3.66
HDFC Bank	Banks - Private Sector	4
Hero Motocorp	Auto - 2 & 3 Wheelers	1.3
Hindalco	Aluminium	0.93
HUL	Personal Care	3.09
ICICI Bank	Banks - Private Sector	3.32
Infosys	Computers - Software	5.41
ITC	Cigarettes	5.87
Jindal Steel	Steel - Sponge Iron	1.71
Larsen	Engineering - Heavy	2.61
Mah and Mah	Auto - Cars & Jeeps	1.55
Maruti Suzuki	Auto - Cars & Jeeps	1.03
NTPC	Power - Generation/Distribution	4.99
ONGC	Oil Drilling And Exploration	8.1
Reliance	Refineries	8.73
SBI	Banks - Public Sector	4.11
Sterlite Ind	Metals - Non Ferrous	1.27
Sun Pharma	Pharmaceuticals	1.94
Tata Motors	Auto - LCVs/HCVs	2.41
Tata Power	Power - Generation/Distribution	0.83
Tata Steel	Steel - Large	1.45
TCS	Computers - Software	7.75
Wipro	Computers - Software	3.59

The list above is ordered Alphabetically based on the company name :-). Also, the list above is correct as of 15th January 2012. If there are any updates to the Index, I will try to update this post accordingly...