Get Indexology® Blog updates via email.


CONTRIBUTOR
Contributor Image
florence-chapman

Florence Chapman

Senior Analyst, U.S. Equities, S&P Dow Jones Indices

Florence Chapman is Senior Analyst, U.S. Equities at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). Her team is responsible for providing insights and thought leadership of S&P DJI’s U.S. equity index suite, including the S&P 500® and The Dow®, and assisting with the development of new benchmarks for market participants. In her role, Florence works closely with the Sales, Research & Design, Index Production, Channel and Marketing departments.
Full Bio
Nov 25, 2025

Still Quality by Design: A Deep Dive into the Recent Performance of the S&P SmallCap 600

Prior to the start of 2025, the S&P SmallCap 600® outperformed the Russell 2000—another prominent small-cap U.S. equity index—in 20 of the full calendar years to December 2024. However, the S&P SmallCap 600 has underperformed the Russell 2000 by 9% YTD, putting it on track to record its worst year of relative performance since its…

READ

Aug 18, 2025

Introducing the S&P MidCap 400 Scored & Screened Leaders Index

Launched in April 2025, the S&P MidCap 400® Scored & Screened Leaders Index provides a new benchmark for measuring the performance of companies with higher-than-average ESG scores while excluding companies that derive revenue from specified business activities, or are non-compliant with the United Nations Global Compact. A Sizeable Market Segment With a market capitalization larger…

READ

Jul 17, 2025

Weighting in the Wings: Equal Weight in a Mega-Cap World

In today’s equity market, mega-cap stocks are not just influential—they have become a driving force shaping overall performance and strategic market dynamics.1 The increasing market dominance of the top 100 constituents, and the narrowing differential in cumulative weights of these names, in both the S&P Total Market Index (TMI)—which tracks the broad U.S. equity market—and…

READ


Get Indexology® Blog updates via email.

Indexology® Blog
Contributors

SEE ALL