CAC 40
CAC40 · Market Index
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Overview
CAC40 — CAC 40 — trades publicly as a market index. The most recent price was 8,636.8, down 1.02% over the past 24 hours. Trading volume came in at 0.
- Ticker
- CAC40
- Type
- Market Index
Historical Chart
CAC 40 price chart, 1M range. Current price 8,636.8. Down 1.02% over the selected range.
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What Is CAC 40?
The CAC 40 tracks the 40 largest and most actively traded French companies listed on Euronext Paris, and is France's leading equity benchmark, first calculated in 1987. Its name comes from the Paris Bourse's original electronic trading system, the Cotation Assistée en Continu.
Like the FTSE 100, the CAC 40's constituents are heavily multinational — luxury goods, pharmaceuticals, and energy companies with substantial revenue earned outside France make up a large share of the index — so it's often used as a gauge of European corporate earnings broadly, not just the French domestic economy.
How CAC 40 Is Priced
CAC 40 is a market index, not a single tradable security — its value is a weighted average of the prices of the companies or assets it tracks, recalculated continuously as those underlying prices move. Investors can't buy the index directly; exposure typically comes through index funds, ETFs, or futures contracts designed to track it. Because it aggregates many holdings, an index's day-to-day move reflects the combined performance of its constituents rather than any single company's news.