> The S&P 500 Software & Services Index, 140 companies, fell 20% year to date. T...

Animats · 2026-02-17T00:01:07 1771286467

> The overall index has been pretty well flat. What sectors gained?

Data centers and AI.

The current US economy is flat except for AI and data centers.[1]

bigiain · 2026-02-16T23:14:51 1771283691

Pretty sure there are 500 "software and services" companies in the The S&P 500 Software & Services Index.

bts89 · 2026-02-17T00:24:05 1771287845

500 is the target, not a hard requirement. The current SP500 index is comprised of 503 constituents.

I’m also pretty sure S&P doesn’t maintain a ‘S&P 500 Software & Services Index‘.

There is a ‘S&P Software & Services Select Industry Index’ with 140 constituents. That’s probably the index in question.

zahlman · 2026-02-17T03:57:32 1771300652

Right; so if it's not "the software and services subset of S&P 500", then TFA was mistaken in including "500" in the name.

That's what I was trying to establish.

Either that, or there really are 140/503 software and service companies, and I learned something surprising.

bts89 · 2026-02-17T05:12:28 1771305148

Agreed. It’s likely just a typo.