FTSE 250 Index

Foundation	1984
Operator	FTSE Group
Exchanges	London Stock Exchange
Constituents	250 (consisting of 101 to 350)
Type	Mid cap
Market cap	£419.0 billion (as at 30 September 2021)[1]
Weighting method	Capitalisation-weighted index
Related indices	FTSE 100 Index FTSE 350 Index
Website	FTSE UK Index Series

The FTSE 250 Index (/ˈfʊtsi/ "Footsie") is a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Promotions and demotions to and from the index occur quarterly in March, June, September, and December. The Index is calculated in real-time and published every minute.

Related indices are the FTSE 100 Index (which lists the largest 100 companies), the FTSE 350 Index (which combines the FTSE 100 and 250), the FTSE SmallCap Index and the FTSE All-Share Index (an aggregation of the FTSE 100 Index, the FTSE 250 Index and the FTSE SmallCap Index).

Record values

The index began on 12 October 1992 at the base level of 831.38. The highest closing value of 24,353.85 was reached on 7 September 2021.^[2]

Annual returns

The following table lists the Total Return of the FTSE 250 index up to 31 December 2021.^[3]

Constituents

The following table lists the FTSE 250 companies after the changes on 23 January 2023.^[4]