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Verizon Communications (VZ) closed at $45.74 in the latest trading session, marking a -2.13% move from the prior day.

Verizon Communications is losing its spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Following the change, the storied index will no longer include any traditional telecom names since AT&T lost its post to Apple in 2015. While Verizon’s business faces considerable pressure—and a looming threat from SpaceX Starlink network—its dividend looks well covered.

Whether the questions are technical or fundamental in nature, markets are wondering more and more about this new industrial revolution.

Google shares are in focus ahead of their inclusion in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29. Here’s what this index inclusion means for GOOGL stock.

Verizon Communications is losing its spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Following the change, the storied index will no longer include any traditional telecom names since AT&T lost its post to Apple in 2015. It was down 2.6% to $45.53 in trading Wednesday, faring worse than AT&T and the S&P 500.

Nike could be the next company dropped from the given its low stock price—and that might allow Berkshire Hathaway to finally make it into the venerable index. S&P Dow Jones Indices, which oversees both the Dow industrials and S&P 500 index, said that Verizon is leaving in part because its low stock price–around $46—gave the company an “immaterial impact” on the price-weighted index. Verizon’s weighting was around 0.5%, while Goldman Sachs whose stock trades for nearly $1,100 a share, has the highest weighting in the index at around 13%.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) will join the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ, XETRA:BAC), in a reshuffle that further increases the index’s exposure to large-cap technology companies. S&P Dow Jones Indices said the change will take effect prior to...

Alphabet's inclusion in the Dow gives the 130-year-old blue-chip index a dose of the same mega-cap tech trade already dominating the Nasdaq 100.

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Alphabet will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but history suggests membership in the price-weighted index rarely provides a meaningful lift for newly added stocks.

In June 2026, Verizon Communications completed cash tender and exchange offers covering about US$1.86 billion of subsidiary notes while also being removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, where Alphabet will take its place. Together with launching simplified Simplicity and Verizon One plans to address subscriber losses, these moves signal a focus on cleaner financing and more customer-centric wireless and broadband offerings. We’ll now examine how Verizon’s Dow exit and push into...

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Alphabet will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but history suggests membership in the price-weighted index rarely provides a meaningful lift for newly added stocks.

Alphabet Lands Coveted Dow Slot, Replacing Verizon on June 29

Alphabet will join the DJIA and Honeywell Aerospace, a spinoff from Honeywell International, will join the S&P 500.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) will replace Verizon (NYSE:VZ) in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, with the change scheduled to take effect on June 29, according to an announcement from S&P Dow Jones Indices. Investors responded positively to the news, with Alphabet shares rising 0.

Alphabet replaces Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average

Google's parent will replace Verizon in the blue-chip index on June 29.

News of the day for June 24, 2026

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The Google parent will enter the 30-stock index on June 29, giving the blue-chip benchmark broader exposure to AI, cloud, and digital advertising

↘️ Cerebras Systems (CBRS): The chip maker, which went public in May, said it expects its operating margins to remain negative through the end of the year, a sign of the heavy cost of the AI buildout.

Alphabet joins the Dow on June 29, replacing Verizon, as a 6% stock crash raises questions about Google's competitive edge.

Alphabet was poised to open higher on Wednesday after the tech giant was tapped to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Verizon.

Alphabet was poised to open higher on Wednesday after the tech giant was tapped to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Verizon.

Alphabet was poised to open higher on Wednesday after the tech giant was tapped to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Verizon.

Low-risk stocks are back in vogue.

Verizon's 22-year run in the iconic Dow is ending, with a trillion-dollar company that's an artificial intelligence (AI) applications leader taking its place.

Dow Jones Industrial Average reshuffle adds Alphabet while Honeywell undergoes a spin-off of its aerospace business.

AST SpaceMobile’s satellite ambitions and GE Aerospace’s aviation dominance present two sharply different financial and risk profiles for investors to weigh.