UK blue chip companies – top blue chip companies
The UK stock market is known as the FTSE and the index which is there akin to the Dow Jones in US or the NASDAQ-100 or the Sensex in India is the FTSE-100. FTSE-100 alone can provide you the list of top UK blue chip companies.
Before you being your investment journey in the blue chip stocks it is always better to know what are the blue chip stocks and why they are called so.
These companies by themselves provide about 81% UK market.
Here is the list
Admiral Group plc (LON:ADM)
AMEC plc (LON:AMEC)
Anglo American plc (LON:AAL)
Antofagasta plc (LON:ANTO)
Associated British Foods plc (LON:ABF)
AstraZeneca plc (LON:AZN)
Autonomy Corporation plc (LON:AU.)
BAE Systems plc (LON:BA.)
Barclays PLC (LON:BARC)
BG Group plc (LON:BG.)
BHP Billiton plc (LON:BLT)
BP plc (LON:BP.)
British American Tobacco plc (LON:BATS)
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (LON:BSY)
Bunzl plc (LON:BNZL)
Cable and Wireless plc (LON:CW.)
Cadbury plc (LON:CBRY)
Capita Group plc (LON:CPI)
Carnival plc (LON:CCL)
Cobham plc (LON:COB)
Compass Group plc (LON:CPG)
Diageo plc (LON:DGE)
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (LON:ENRC)
Experian plc (LON:EXPN)
Fresnillo Plc (LON:FRES)
G4S plc (LON:GFS)
GlaxoSmithKline plc (LON:GSK)
ICAP plc (LON:IAP)
Inmarsat Plc (LON:ISAT)
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (LON:IHG)
International Power plc (LON:IPR)
Intertek Group plc (LON:ITRK)
Invensys plc (LON:ISYS)
Kazakhmys plc (LON:KAZ)
Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LON:LLOY)
Lonmin Plc (LON:LMI)
Man Group Plc (LON:EMG)
Marks and Spencer Group Plc (LON:MKS)
National Grid plc (LON:NG.)
NEXT plc (LON:NXT)
Pearson plc (LON:PSON)
Pennon Group plc (LON:PNN)
Petrofac Limited (LON:PFC)
Randgold Resources Limited (LON:RRS)
Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc (LON:RB.)
Reed Elsevier plc (LON:REL)
Royal Dutch Shell plc (LON:RDSA)
RSA Insurance Group plc (LON:RSA)
SABMiller plc (LON:SAB)
Serco Group plc (LON:SRP)
Shire Plc. (LON:SHP)
Smith & Nephew plc (LON:SN.)
Smiths Group plc (LON:SMIN)
Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN)
Tesco PLC (LON:TSCO)
The Sage Group plc (LON:SGE)
Tullow Oil plc (LON:TLW)
Unilever plc (LON:ULVR)
United Utilities Group PLC (LON:UU.)
Vedanta Resources plc (LON:VED)
Vodafone Group plc (LON:VOD)
Wm. Morrison Supermarkets plc (LON:MRW)
WPP PLC (LON:WPP)
Xstrata PLC (LON:XTA)
Cairn Energy PLC (LON:CNE)
Hopefully this list will be able to give you a decent head start about where to invest in the UK stock market that is the FTSE
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