A decline in stocks Tuesday cemented the worst quarter ever for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. A table below shows how all 30 components performed from January through March.
On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA, -1.84%
fell 410 points (or 1.8%) to close at 21,917.16. The venerable index was down 23.2% for the first quarter.
The only Dow stock that rose during the first quarter was Microsoft
MSFT, -1.57%,
which closed at $157.71 on March 31, up a penny from $157.70 on Dec. 31. (All performance figures in this article exclude dividends.)
The S&P 500 Index
SPX, -1.60%
dropped 1.6% on Tuesday for a first-quarter decline of 20%.
The Nasdaq Composite Index
COMP, -0.95%
decreased 1% on Tuesday for a first-quarter decline of 14.2%.
Sectors
All 11 sectors of the S&P 500 were down significantly during the first quarter:
| S&P 500 sector | Price change – first quarter, 2020 | Price change – 2019 |
| Energy | -51.1% | 7.6% |
| Financials | -32.3% | 29.2% |
| Industrials | -27.4% | 26.8% |
| Materials | -26.6% | 21.9% |
| Real Estate | -19.8% | 24.9% |
| Consumer Discretionary | -19.6% | 26.2% |
| Communication Services | -17.2% | 30.9% |
| Utilities | -14.2% | 22.2% |
| Consumer Staples | -13.4% | 24.0% |
| Health Care | -13.1% | 18.7% |
| Information Technology | -12.2% | 48.0% |
| Source: FactSet | ||
Dow 30
| Company | Ticker | Price change – first quarter, 2020 | Price change – 2019 |
| Boeing Co. |
BA, -2.06% |
-54.2% | 1.0% |
| Dow Inc. |
DOW, +2.06% |
-46.6% | N/A |
| Exxon Mobil Corp. |
XOM, +1.25% |
-45.6% | 2.3% |
| Chevron Corp. |
CVX, +0.71% |
-39.9% | 10.8% |
| United Technologies Corp. |
UTX, -4.22% |
-37.0% | 40.6% |
| J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. |
JPM, -3.71% |
-35.4% | 42.8% |
| Walt Disney Co. |
DIS, -3.21% |
-33.2% | 31.9% |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc. |
GS, -3.15% |
-32.8% | 37.6% |
| American Express Co. |
AXP, -5.16% |
-31.2% | 30.6% |
| Travelers Cos. Inc. |
TRV, -3.16% |
-27.5% | 14.4% |
| 3M Co. |
MMM, -0.89% |
-22.6% | -7.4% |
| Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. |
WBA, +1.31% |
-22.4% | -13.7% |
| Caterpillar Inc. |
CAT, +3.88% |
-21.4% | 16.2% |
| Coca-Cola Co. |
KO, -1.67% |
-20.1% | 16.9% |
| Nike Inc. Class B |
NKE, -3.09% |
-18.3% | 36.6% |
| Cisco Systems Inc. |
CSCO, -2.50% |
-18.0% | 10.7% |
| International Business Machines Corp. |
IBM, -1.77% |
-17.2% | 17.9% |
| Pfizer Inc. |
PFE, -0.09% |
-16.7% | -10.2% |
| McDonald’s Corp. |
MCD, -1.65% |
-16.3% | 11.3% |
| Merck & Co. Inc. |
MRK, -0.01% |
-15.4% | 19.0% |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc. |
UNH, -0.76% |
-15.2% | 18.0% |
| Home Depot Inc. |
HD, -4.79% |
-14.5% | 27.1% |
| Visa Inc. Class A |
V, -2.69% |
-14.3% | 42.4% |
| Apple Inc. |
AAPL, -0.20% |
-13.4% | 86.2% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. |
VZ, -1.90% |
-12.5% | 9.2% |
| Procter & Gamble Co. |
PG, -4.35% |
-11.9% | 35.9% |
| Johnson & Johnson |
JNJ, -1.41% |
-10.1% | 13.0% |
| Intel Corp. |
INTC, -2.47% |
-9.6% | 27.5% |
| Walmart Inc. |
WMT, -1.36% |
-4.4% | 27.6% |
| Microsoft Corp. |
US:MSFT |
0.0% | 55.3% |
| Source: FactSet | |||
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