The CAC 40 is a benchmark French stock market index. The index represents a capitalization-weighted measure of the 40 most significant stocks among the 100 largest market caps on the Euronext Paris. It is a price return index. It is one of the main national indices of the pan-European stock exchange group Euronext alongside Euronext Amsterdam's AEX, Euronext Brussels' BEL20, Euronext Dublin's ISEQ 20, Euronext Lisbon's PSI-20 and the Oslo Bors OBX Index.
It is an index without dividends.
Cotation operates every working day from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It is updated every 15 seconds.
CAC 40 performance since 31 December 1987, linked to "indice Insee de la Bourse de Paris' from 1965 to 1987.
Euronext N.V. is a pan-European bourse that provides trading and post-trade services for a range of financial instruments.
Euronext's registered office is located in the Euronext Amsterdam building, Beursplein 5, Amsterdam.
The trading floor at Euronext's registered office in Amsterdam
Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, now an events venue
Former building of the Brussels Stock Exchange in Brussels