| Forget the Dow 30. The 25 companies listed here were the favorites of high frequency traders in the U.S. during the past two years, based on a recent study by Woodbine Associates of Stamford, Connecticut. | |
| Company Name (symbol) | Trading Volume* (millions of shares) |
| Citigroup (C) | 507.8 |
| Ford Motor Co. (F) | 132.7 |
| Bank of America Corp. (BAC) | 116.7 |
| General Electric Co. (GE) | 90.3 |
| Intel Corp. (INTC) | 73.0 |
| Pfizer (PFE) | 71.5 |
| Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) | 68.2 |
| Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) | 64.8 |
| Cisco Systems (CSCO) | 55.2 |
| Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) | 45.4 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) | 44.4 |
| Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) | 39.6 |
| Alcoa (AA) | 38.3 |
| AT&T (T) | 30.9 |
| Oracle Corp. (ORCL) | 30.4 |
| Regions Financial Corp. (RF) | 29.5 |
| Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) | 29.4 |
| Fannie Mae (FNM) | 29.2 |
| Motorola (MOT) | 26.8 |
| Yahoo! (YHOO) | 26.6 |
| Dell (DELL) | 26.4 |
| EMC Corp. (EMC) | 24.3 |
| Apple (AAPL) | 23.7 |
| Morgan Stanley (MS) | 21.2 |
| Home Depot (HD) | 18.8 |
| Source: Woodbine Associates, Yahoo! Finance. *Average daily trading volume for March through May 2010. | |
