The eight firms in the Florida index with gains of more than 40% were:
- WellCare Health Plans Inc.
- Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc.
- Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp.
- KLX Inc.
- Landstar System Inc.
- B/E Aerospace Inc.
- Brown & Brown Inc.
- CSX Corp.
The Florida 50 Index, which was established in January 2016 by the University of Miami School of Business Administration, is the first custom S&P Dow Jones index to be owned by a university. It is intended to act as an effective representation of the stock market and a bellwether for the Florida economy.
“The 2016 performance of the University of Miami’s Florida 50 Index shows that not only are Florida-based firms keeping pace with their counterparts across the country, as a cross-section, they’re actually seeing results coming in even better,” said Seth Levine, an accounting lecturer at the School. “Investors may do well to keep an eye on this index in the future as they weigh their investment decisions.”
The Florida 50 Index is based on the capitalizations of about 50 Florida-based large-, mid- and small-cap companies included in the S&P 1500 index having common stock listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ.
The index is available under the ticker symbol UMIAMIFL through the S&P website at: www.UMFL50.com. The performance can be monitored in real time on Yahoo Finance.
