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Also known as Deutscher Aktienindex
The DAX (Deutscher Aktienindex (German stock index); ) is a stock market index consisting of the 40 major German blue chip companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It is a total return index. Prices are taken from the Xetra trading venue. According to Deutsche Börse, the operator of Xetra, DAX measures the performance of the Prime Standard's 40 largest German companies in terms of order book volume and market capitalization. DAX is the equivalent of the UK FTSE 100 and the US Dow Jones Industrial Average, and because of its small company selection it does not necessarily represent th
The DAX is a stock market index that tracks the 40 largest German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, serving as a key measure of Germany's economic health. It works similarly to the US Dow Jones Industrial Average or UK FTSE 100, allowing investors to see how major German businesses are performing at a glance.
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Key facts
- Index.name
- DAX
- Index.logo
- DAX-logo.svg
- Index.image
- Dax-chart-1959-2019.png
- Index.foundation
- 1 July 1988
- Index.operator
- STOXX (Qontigo, Deutsche Börse)
- Index.exchanges
- Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- Index.constituents
- 40 (expanded from 30 in 2021)
- Index.cap_level
- Large cap
- Index.mcap
- €1.891 trillion (March 2025)
- Index.weighting
- Capitalization-weighted
- Index.related
- MDAX, SDAX, TecDAX
- Index.homepage
- Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- live.deutsche-boerse.com
- Image
- Dax-chart-1959-2019.png
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- inception
- 1988-07-01
- Commons category
- DAX (Stock market index)
- catalog code
- .GDAXI
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- Former DAX components
- See also
- References
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The DAX (Deutscher Aktienindex (German stock index); ) is a stock market index consisting of the 40 major German blue chip companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It is a total return index. Prices are taken from the Xetra trading venue. According to Deutsche Börse, the operator of Xetra, DAX measures the performance of the Prime Standard's 40 largest German companies in terms of order book volume and market capitalization. DAX is the equivalent of the UK FTSE 100 and the US Dow Jones Industrial Average, and because of its small company selection it does not necessarily represent the vitality of the German economy as a whole.
The L-DAX Index is an indicator of the German benchmark DAX index's performance after the Xetra trading venue closes based on the floor trading at the Börse Frankfurt trading venue. The L-DAX Index basis is the "floor" trade (Parketthandel) at the Frankfurt stock exchange; it is computed daily between 09:00 and 17:45 Hours CET. The L/E-DAX index (Late/Early DAX) is calculated from 17:55 to 22:00 CET and from 08:00 to 09:00 CET. The Eurex, a European electronic futures and options exchange based in Zurich, Switzerland with a subsidiary in Frankfurt, Germany, offers options (ODAX) and Futures (FDAX) on the DAX from 01:10 to 22:00 CET or from 02:10 to 22:00 CEST.