The quarterly rejig of the FTSE 100 index takes effect today, when the UK's benchmark index kicks in to touch the most beleaguered of the blue-chips, and promotes the midcap rising stars. With the help of The Share Centre's investment research analyst, Graham Spooner, here's the Footsie hits, and the misses.

Who's out:

Morrisons (MRW):

shares -19.5 YTD


G4S (GFS)
:

shares -21.5% YTD


Meggitt (MGGT)
:

shares -29.5 YTD

Spooner says: 'Supermarket retailer Morrisons has been fighting relentlessly to maintain market share but strong competition in the sector led to the company reporting a decline in profits and a warning that restructuring costs will continue to impact in the future. This relegation is unlikely to come as a surprise to the market however, due to the fact the company only narrowly escaped demotion in the June and September reviews.'

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The analysts continues: 'Despite a small recovery recently, security firm G4S has also been given the boot as a result of a 13% fall in the share price over the past quarter alone.'

As for aerospace group Meggitt, 'shares in aerospace and defence company Meggitt fell by 20% on the back of a profit warning in October which is likely to be the reason for its downgrading,' spooner points out.

Who is in:

Worldpay (WPG):

shares +26% (since 240p IPO 16 Oct)


Provident Financial (PFG)
:

shares +33.2% YTD


DCC (DCC)
:

shares +57% YTD

'Global payments processor Worldpay, only joined the stock market in October this year. It has a market capitalisation of around £5.9 billionn, operates in 146 countries and has 400,000 customers worldwide,' Spooner says.

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The group is joined by one of the UK?s 'leading suppliers of personal credit products Provident Financial,' according to the analyst, whose shares have risen 25% since the last review, and business support services firm DCC.'

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Issue Date: 21 Dec 2015