The list of all companies that have been included in the BSE SENSEX from its inception in 1986 are listed below. The base year of SENSEX is 1978-79 with a base value of 100. During the introduction of the SENSEX in 1986, some of the companies included in the base calculation in 1979 were removed and new companies were added.
| Sensex Companies List | CEO/Chairman |
| Bajaj Auto | Rajiv Bajaj/Rahul Bajaj |
| Bharti Airtel | Sunil Bharti Mittal |
| BHEL | B Prasada Rao |
| Cipla | Y K Hamied |
| Coal India | N C Jha |
| DLF | T C Goyal/K P Singh |
| HDFC | Keki M Mistry/Deepak S Parekh |
| HDFC Bank | Aditya Puri/C M Vasudev |
| Hero Motocorp | Pawan Munjal/Brijmohan Lall Munjal |
| Hindalco | D Bhattacharya/Kumar Mangalam Birla |
| HUL | Nitin Paranjpe/Harish Manwani |
| ICICI Bank | Chanda Kochhar/K V Kamath |
| Infosys | S D Shibulal |
| ITC | Yogesh Chander Deveshwar |
| Jaiprakash Asso | Sunny Gaur/Manoj Gaur |
| Jindal Steel | Naveen Jindal |
| Larsen | K V Rangaswami/Y M Deosthalee |
| Mah and Mah | Anand G Mahindra/Keshub Mahindra |
| Maruti Suzuki | Shinzo Nakanishi/R C Bhargava |
| NTPC | Arup Roy Choudhury |
| ONGC | A K Hazarika |
| Reliance Industries | Mukesh D Ambani |
| SBI | Pratip Chaudhuri |
| Sterlite Ind | Anil Agarwal |
| Sun Pharma | Dilip S Shanghvi |
| Tata Motors | P M Telang/Ratan N Tata |
| Tata Power | Anil Sardana/R N Tata |
| Tata Steel | H M Nerurkar/Ratan N Tata |
| TCS | N Chandrasekaran/R N Tata |
| Wipro | T K Kurien/Azim H Premji |
