Table 1. List of the companies which stock prices are used for the calculations in the paper.
| Ticker | Name | Sector | Ticker | Name | Sector |
| ABT | Abbott Laboratories | Hea | AIG | American International Group, Inc. | Fin |
| AMGN | Amgen Inc. | Hea | APA | Apache Corp. | Bas |
| APC | Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | Bas | AAPL | Apple Inc. | Con |
| AXP | American Express Company | Fin | BA | The Boeing Company | Ind |
| BAC | Bank of America Corp. | Fin | BAX | Baxter International Inc. | Hea |
| BMY | Bristol-Myers Squibb Company | Hea | C | Citigroup, Inc. | Fin |
| CAT | Caterpillar Inc. | Ind | CELG | Celgene Corporation | Hea |
| CL | Colgate-Palmolive Co. | Con | CMCSA | Comcast Corporation | Ser |
| COP | ConocoPhillips | Bas | COST | Costco Wholesale Corp. | Ser |
| CSCO | Cisco Systems, Inc. | Tec | CVS | CVS Caremark Corp. | Ser |
| CVX | Chevron Corp. | Bas | DD | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. | Bas |
| DE | Deere & Company | Ind | DELL | Dell Inc. | Tec |
| DHR | Danaher Corp. | Ind | DIS | The Walt Disney Company | Ser |
| DOW | The Dow Chemical Company | Bas | EMC | EMC Corporation | Tec |
| EMR | Emerson Electric Co. | Tec | EOG | EOG Resources, Inc. | Bas |
| EXC | Exelon Corp. | Uti | F | Ford Motor Co. | Con |
| GE | General Electric Company | Ind | HAL | Halliburton Company | Bas |
| HD | The Home Depot, Inc. | Ser | HON | Honeywell International Inc. | Ind |
| HPQ | Hewlett-Packard Company | Tec | IBM | International Business Machines Corp. | Tec |
| INTC | Intel Corp. | Tec | JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | Hea |
| JPM | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Fin | KO | The Coca-Cola Company | Con |
| LLY | Eli Lilly and Company | Hea | LOW | Lowe's Companies Inc. | Ser |
| MCD | McDonald's Corp. | Ser | MDT | Medtronic, Inc. | Hea |
| MMM | 3M Company | Cng | MO | Altria Group Inc. | Con |
| MRK | Merck & Co. Inc. | Hea | MSFT | Microsoft Corp. | Tec |
| NKE | Nike, Inc. | Con | ORCL | Oracle Corporation | Tec |
| OXY | Occidental Petroleum Corp. | Bas | PEP | Pepsico, Inc. | Con |
| PFE | Pfizer Inc. | Hea | PG | The Procter & Gamble Company | Con |
| PNC | The PNC Financial Services Group | Fin | SLB | Schlumberger Limited | Bas |
| SO | Southern Company | Uti | T | AT&T, Inc. | Tec |
| TGT | Target Corp. | Ser | TJX | The TJX Companies, Inc. | Ser |
| TXN | Texas Instruments Inc. | Tec | UNH | UnitedHealth Group Incorporated | Hea |
| UNP | Union Pacific Corp. | Ser | USB | U.S. Bancorp | Fin |
| UTX | United Technologies Corp. | Ind | VZ | Verizon Communications Inc. | Tec |
| WFC | Wells Fargo & Company | Fin | WMT | Wal-Mart Stores Inc. | Ser |
| XOM | Exxon Mobil Corp. | Bas |
Sectors are defined as basic materials (Bas), conglomerate (Cng), consumer goods (Con), financial (Fin), healthcare (Hea), industrial goods (Ind), services (Ser), technology (Tec) and utilities (Uti).