If the stock market can move sectors and stocks, which sectors and stocks are most likely to move in step with the stock market? Sectors and individual stocks most highly correlated to the overall market can use the S&P 500 SPDR ETF (SPY) as a directional indicator.

The following individual stocks are most correlated the S&P 500 SPDR ETF (SPY).

DIS Disney (Walt) Co
MA Mastercard Inc
UNP Union Pacific Corp
FDX FedEx Corp
MMM 3M Co
HON Honeywell Intl
GD General Dynamics Corp
TXN Texas Instruments
CAT Caterpillar Inc
HAL Halliburton Co
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
EMC EMC Corp
SPG Simon Ppty Grp
ACN Accenture PLC (Ireland) NEW
MDT Medtronic, Inc
PEP Pepsico Inc
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
LMT Lockheed Martin
MRK Merck & Co
JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co
BA Boeing Co
RTN Raytheon Co
V Visa Inc
C Citigrp Inc
ABBV AbbVie Inc
GE General Electric
USB US Bancorp
UNH UnitedHealth Grp Inc
AAPL Apple Inc
KO Coca-Cola Co
ABT Abbott Laboratories
ORCL Oracle Corp
DOW Dow Chemical
MCD McDonald's Corp
GOOGL Google Inc Cl A

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