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Stock market index is a listing of stocks and a composite value of its components. It is a tool to represent the characteristics of its component stocks. The characteristic can be stock market exchange, market capitalizations, or industry. These market index is used as an benchmark of the stock market performance. If your return beats the market return, than you have beaten the market. So mutual fund usually compare their performance with the stock market index. To calculate the market index, width is used. The width can be based on number of outstanding stocks, or capitalization.

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