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).

USB US Bancorp
BK Bank of New York Mellon Corp
NSC Norfolk Southern
BAX Baxter Intl
CSCO Cisco Systems
MMM 3M Co
MDT Medtronic, Inc
AXP American Express Co
CL Colgate-Palmolive Co
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
GE General Electric
MA Mastercard Inc
MET Metlife Inc
RTN Raytheon Co
EMR Emerson Electric Co
HON Honeywell Intl
GS Goldman Sachs Grp
DIS Disney (Walt) Co
WFC Wells Fargo
CVS CVS Health Corp
UNP Union Pacific Corp
ORCL Oracle Corp
MO Altria Grp
LMT Lockheed Martin
PG Procter & Gamble
TXN Texas Instruments
FOXA Twenty-First Century Fox Inc A
KO Coca-Cola Co
ALL Allstate Corp
TWX Time Warner
EBAY Ebay Inc
DD Dupont(E.I.)Denemours
FDX FedEx Corp
COF Cap One Finl
GD General Dynamics Corp
GOOGL Google Inc Cl A
PEP Pepsico Inc
BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway'B'
UPS United Parcel'B'
ABBV AbbVie Inc
ACN Accenture PLC (Ireland) NEW
COST Costco Wholesale
AMGN Amgen Inc
ABT Abbott Laboratories
NKE Nike, Inc'B'
FB Facebook Inc
BA Boeing Co
C Citigrp Inc
AIG Amer Intl Grp
INTC Intel Corp
GOOG Google Inc Cl C Cap Stock
BAC Bank of America Corporation
EMC EMC Corp
WMT Wal-Mart Stores
MRK Merck & Co
UNH UnitedHealth Grp Inc
CMCSA Comcast Cl'A'
MSFT Microsoft Corp

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