Could Nike Get the Boot from the Dow? Why Berkshire Hathaway Might Take Its Place.

Nike could be the next company dropped from the given its low stock price—and that might allow Berkshire Hathaway to finally make it into the venerable index. S&P Dow Jones Indices, which oversees both the Dow industrials and S&P 500 index, said that Verizon is leaving in part because its low stock price–around $46—gave the company an “immaterial impact” on the price-weighted index. Verizon’s weighting was around 0.5%, while Goldman Sachs whose stock trades for nearly $1,100 a share, has the highest weighting in the index at around 13%.