To keep larger market cap stocks from having too much influence on the index, every year the larger stocks that don't meet the small cap status are filtered out. (novelinvestor.com)
The second largest gets the second highest weighting and so on, down to the smallest market cap stock. (novelinvestor.com)
The second biggest market cap stock gets the second highest weighting, on down to the smallest stock in the index. (novelinvestor.com)