Investment Firm: Microsoft and Company

investment firm: As of April, the software giant ticker MSFT was the only company to hold a 4% weighting in the broad market index, the independent investment firm The Leuthold Group said in a note on Friday, according to The Independent. That means changes in Microsoft's stock price push the index higher, or lower, than similar moves by any other company. Photograph by Zach Gibson/Bloomberg Text size Microsoft's return to its spot as the most valuable company in the S&P 500 it is currently worth 988 billion has coincided with another statistical achievement. Microsoft isn't the first to be in the so-called 4% Club. Microsoft and Apple have reached the magic threshold, slipped off the mark, and regained it the only companies to do so. According to Leuthold, a handful of companies have been members at one time or another since 1990 Apple AAPL Cisco Systems CSCO Exxon Mobil XOM and General Electric GE . It isn't easy to stay on the roster. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.