State index ends day little changed

The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, closed Friday at 832.90, up 0.03%.

Top performers were America’s Car-Mart, up 4.48%; Arkansas Best, up 1.71%; and P.A.M. Transportation, up 1.64%. The worst performers were Murphy Oil, down 1.79%; Dillard’s Inc., down 1.21%; and Murphy USA, down 0.97%.

The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.