Only about half of the nifty50 stocks (as enumerated by Wikipedia) remain in the S&P 500 today; while mergers and acquisitions account for some disappearances (not failures), missing leaders include Xerox, Kodak, Polaroid, Avon, Burrough, Digital Equipment, and Simplicity Pattern, illustrating how hard persistence is.
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Howard MarksEvidence Quote
“only about half the nifty50 as enumerated by Wikipedia there is no agreed on list are in the S&P 500 today that figure undoubtedly looks worse than the reality since mergers and Acquisitions cause caused some of the old names to disappear not failures”
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