The NASDAQ Transportation Index (Symbol: TRAN) is a capitalization-weighted stock market index designed to measure the performance of all NASDAQ stocks in the transportation sector. The index was developed with a base value of 100 as of February 5, 1971. The parent index is NASDAQ Composite Index.

History

The index closed the year 1990 at 417.07. The index closed the year 1999 at 999.11. In October 2007, it hit an all-time closing high of 3,107.87. Then in March 2009, it hit a six-year closing low of 1,242.50. In March 2014 it broke the high from 2007.

NASDAQ Transportation Index

Components

This list is current as of February 18, 2011. An up-to-date list is available in the External Links section. This is an alphabetical list, and not a ranked list.

NASDAQ Transportation Index

Name Symbol

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings AAWW

Arkansas Best Corporation ABFS

Air T, Inc. AIRT

Allegiant Travel Company ALGT

Air Transport Services Group, Inc. ATSG

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. CHRW

Capital Product Partners L.P. CPLP

Covenant Transport CVTI

Diana Containerships Inc. DCIX

DryShips Inc. DRYS

Echo Global Logistics, Inc. ECHO

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. EGLE

Euroseas Ltd. ESEA

Expeditors International of Washington EXPD

Frozen Food Express FFEX

FreeSeas Inc. FREE

SMF Energy Corporation FUEL

Forward Air Corporation FWRD

StealthGas, Inc. GASS

Globus Maritime Limited GLBS

Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. HA

Heartland Express, Inc. HTLD

Hub Group, Inc. HUBG

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. JBHT

JetBlue Airways Corporation JBLU

Landstar System, Inc. LSTR

Marten Transport, Ltd. MRTN

NewLead Holdings Ltd. NEWL

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. ODFL

Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro OMAB

Pacer International, Inc. PACR

Patriot Transportation Holding PATR

Pinnacle Airlines Corp. PNCL

P.A.M. Transportation Services PTSI

Providence and Worcester Railroad PWX

Quality Distribution, Inc. QLTY

Republic Airways Holdings, Inc. RJET

Rand Logistics, Inc. RLOG

Ryanair Holdings plc RYAAY

Saia, Inc. SAIA

Spirit Airlines, Inc. SAVE

Star Bulk Carriers Corp. SBLK

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp SHIP

Sino-Global Shipping America, L SINO

SkyWest, Inc. SKYW

TBS International plc TBSI

TOP Ships Inc. TOPS

TORM A/S TRMD

Universal Truckload Services, Inc. UACL

Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Limited ULTR

See also

Dow Jones Transportation Average

External links

Yahoo! Finance page for ^TRAN

References

Nasdaq

American stock market indices

Stock market indices by industry

Transportation in the United States

NASDAQ Transportation Index