FTSE 250 Index

FTSE 250

Performance of the FTSE 250 index between October 1992 and June 2025
Foundation	12 October 1992
Operator	FTSE Russell
Exchanges	London Stock Exchange
Trading symbol	MCX
Constituents	250 (June 2025)
Type	Mid-cap
Market cap	£297 billion (June 2025)
Weighting method	Capitalisation-weighted
Related indices	FTSE 100 Index FTSE 350 Index FTSE SmallCap Index FTSE All-Share Index FTSE Fledgling Index FTSE AIM UK 50 Index
Website	official website
Reuters	.FTMC
Bloomberg	MCX:IND

The Financial Times Stock Exchange 250 Index, also called the FTSE 250 Index, FTSE 250, or, informally, the "Footsie 250" /ˈfʊtsi/, is a stock market index that consists of the 101st to the 350th mid-cap blue chip companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.^[1]

The index consists of 11 ICB sectors, four of which have a market cap exceeding £25 billion as at 30 June 2025. These are Financials, Industrials, Consumer Discretionary, Real Estate and together account for approximately 84% of the index's market cap.^[2] At the same date there was one company with a market cap exceeding £4 billion: Burberry equating to approximately 1% of the market cap.^[2]

Each calendar quarter, the FTSE 250's constituents are reviewed and some companies will either exit or enter the index, resulting in irregular trading volume and price changes as market participants rebalance their portfolios.^[3]

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).^[4]

The index began on 12 October 1992 at the base level of 2,403, and a market capitalisation of £98 billion. The highest closing value of 24,250.80 was reached on 1 September 2021.^[5]

The following table lists the annual changes in the FTSE 250 index.^[6][7][8]

While the FTSE 250 had no retail products prior to its 1992 inception date, in the 1990s the index returns were back-calculated to 1986. Indicative values as follows:^[9]

The following table lists the FTSE 250 companies after the changes on 18 August 2025.^[10]

• FTSE 100
• FTSE All-Share Index
• Fast Track 100 Sunday Times list of the 100 largest private (Non Listed) companies.
• Top Track 250 Sunday Times list of the 250 Mid-market (Non-Listed) companies.

• Official constituent list from FTSE Group Archived 2020-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
• London Stock Exchange: FTSE 250 Index
• Market Watch page for FTSE 250
• FTSE 250 Index on Yahoo Finance
• FTSE 250 Index — on Hargreaves Lansdown