The FTSE 100 will be reshuffled in early March and the tables below show the FTSE 250 companies which stand the best chance of promotion and the blue chip shares who are the most likely demotion candidates.
Conventional wisdom suggests those stocks that are likely to make it into the FTSE 100 can expect to benefit from index tracker buying ahead of and after their promotion whilst the opposite is true of shares falling out of the index. The lists below also provide information on recent share price momentum to give an idea of whether stocks are heading in the right direction or not ahead of the March reshuffle.
| FTSE 250 heavy weights* | |||||
| Name | TIDM | Mkt Cap | 3-mth Mom | 1-mth Mom | 1-wk Mom |
| Investec plc | LSE:INVP | £5,180m | 8.0% | 4.0% | 0.7% |
| The Weir Group PLC | LSE:WEIR | £4,997m | 14.7% | 5.5% | 1.1% |
| Royal Mail plc | LSE:RMG | £4,700m | 25.6% | 3.9% | 0.9% |
| Melrose Industries PLC | LSE:MRO | £4,436m | 3.8% | 7.5% | -2.5% |
| John Wood Group PLC | LSE:WG. | £4,393m | -7.6% | 1.1% | -5.0% |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc | LSE:SPX | £4,192m | 1.2% | 1.8% | 0.9% |
| B&M European Value Retail S.A. | LSE:BME | £4,182m | 5.0% | -1.5% | 0.9% |
| Bellway p.l.c. | LSE:BWY | £4,182m | -8.1% | -5.9% | -3.1% |
| Hiscox Ltd | LSE:HSX | £4,107m | 0.4% | -2.1% | 0.9% |
| Booker Group PLC | LSE:BOK | £4,039m | 12.8% | -0.9% | 0.0% |
| FTSE 100 light weights* | |||||
| Name | TIDM | Mkt Cap | 3-mth Mom | 1-mth Mom | 1-wk Mom |
| Hammerson plc | LSE:HMSO | £3,893m | -5.8% | -9.7% | -0.9% |
| Mediclinic International plc | LSE:MDC | £4,413m | 3.1% | -7.6% | -2.7% |
| G4S plc | LSE:GFS | £4,436m | 1.0% | 6.3% | -0.8% |
| Severn Trent Plc | LSE:SVT | £4,634m | -6.4% | -8.6% | -0.9% |
| Halma plc | LSE:HLMA | £4,834m | 8.5% | 1.8% | -0.2% |
| Marks and Spencer Group plc | LSE:MKS | £4,950m | -12.0% | -3.8% | -0.8% |
| United Utilities Group PLC | LSE:UU. | £5,015m | -10.5% | -10.2% | -0.3% |
| Admiral Group plc | LSE:ADM | £5,019m | -4.2% | -8.0% | -0.4% |
| Direct Line Insurance Group PLC | LSE:DLG | £5,086m | -0.7% | -3.4% | -0.3% |
| Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC | LSE:MRW | £5,221m | -0.4% | 1.5% | -1.4% |
*based on 30 Jan close
source: S&P CapitalIQ
