Ferguson Enterprises Joined the S&P 500 on August 5 as Electronic Arts Was Taken Private
S&P Dow Jones Indices announced on July 31, 2026, that Ferguson Enterprises would replace Electronic Arts in the S&P 500 before the August 5 market open, following an investor consortium acquisition of Electronic Arts by Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. Holders of S&P 500 index funds or target-date funds that track the index did not need to take any action, as fund managers handle the rebalancing automatically according to their stated tracking strategies. The major index ETFs — VOO, IVV, and SPY — each use slightly different replication methods, but all aim to reflect the updated index composition.