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The TOPIX and Nikkei are the two major stock indices in Japan. Together, with their sub indices they track large Japanese listed stocks. The Nikkei is price weighted, while the TOPIX is cap-weighted. The JASDAQ and JPX-Nikkei indices track unique data points and markets.
- Bryan Shealy
The Topix is a broad market-cap based index, while the Nikkei, described by CLSA’s strategist Nicholas Smith as “a Flintstones index from an abacus age”, is an average of...
Oct 16, 2020 · Compared to the Nikkei, or Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average, the TOPIX is considered a more appropriate representation of all the Japanese stock markets because it reflects a...
- Will Kenton
May 26, 2022 · The TOPIX is a much more accurate index of the Japanese overall economy than the Nikkei 225. This is because it reflects a fairer depiction of price changes and includes the largest companies trading on the TSE. In fact, the TOPIX was created in 1985 as a way to follow the performance of the Japanese economy more accurately than the Nikkei 225.
TOPIX is a free-float adjusted market capitalization-weighted index. TOPIX shows the measure of current market capitalization assuming that market capitalization as of the base date (January 4 ,1968) is 100 points.
TOPIX. Tokyo Stock Price Index (東証株価指数, Tōshō Kabuka shisū), commonly known as TOPIX, along with the Nikkei 225, is an important stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in Japan, which tracks the entire market of domestic companies and covers most stocks in the Prime Market and some stocks in the Standard Market.
The Nikkei 225 is a price-weighted average of the 225 top-rated Japanese companies listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it excludes REITs, preferred stocks and ETFs). As such, higher-priced stocks have a greater weighting in the index while the TOPIX is influenced by high-capitalization companies.
