Q3's Rising Stars: 3 Dow Stocks for Your Must-Watch List

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a laggard in 2024. While other indices roared higher over the first half of the year, the venerable Dow gained only about half of its peers. Even though Magnificent Seven components Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) are part of the index because it is price-weighted and not market cap-weighted like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, their movements did not influence its growth as much.The Dow Jones is much more diverse in terms of its components than the S&P, where ...