Tech Shakeup on the S&P 500

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Jon Quast: There's another semiconductor stock headed for the S&P 500 . You're listening to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing . Welcome to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing . I'm Jon Quast, and I'm joined today by contributors Matt Frankel and Rachel Warren. We're going to dip into our mailbag today, not once but twice.

But first, we wanted to start with our lead story, and that is about once a quarter, the S&P 500 removes some companies from the index and adds other companies. This is a index that tracks roughly 500 of the largest, most profitable U.S.-based companies. There are some times where a company gets acquired or something like that, and then another company gets added in between the regular rebalancings, but we had this regular one, and Pool Stock and Campbell Soup Company are out. As a shareholder of Pool and a lover of Goldfish crackers, I'm disappointed with that. But we have a couple of new ones heading in and that is Marvell and also Flex . While the indexing itself isn't really something material that we Foolish investors really base an investment thesis on, sometimes it is fun to bring a new stock to our attention as they get added to the large index here, so we thought it would be fun in this episode to talk about these.