Your Favorite S&P 500 ETF Won't Give You Exposure to These 4 Great Stocks

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) market index is pretty broad. It tracks the performance of roughly 500 stocks, hand-picked by an expert panel to reflect the large-cap portion of the American stock market.The index is often seen as an accurate barometer of the stock market as a whole. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that copy the S&P 500 index returns are among the most popular and heavily traded names on the market. The SPDR S&P 500 Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) has more assets under management than any other ETF. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) comes next, followed by the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: IVV). These are the only ETFs worth more than $600 billion each. No other fund reaches the $500 billion level today.But the S&P 500 doesn't look at every big-name, large-cap stock. Some surprising names are not components of this popular index, so the funds listed above won't give you any exposure to them.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool