Two months after the initial listing in Frankfurt, Daimler Truck shares are included in the M-Dax.

The truck manufacturer, which was split off from the group still called Daimler at the time, will replace the real estate specialist Alstria Office Reit on Friday, Deutsche Börse announced late Tuesday evening.

The background to this is the takeover of the company by the Canadian asset manager Brookfield, as a result of which the proportion of freely tradable Alstria shares has fallen below ten percent.

In December, Daimler spun off Daimler Truck's truck business from the group and listed it on the stock exchange.

The car manufacturer is now called, like its most important brand, Mercedes-Benz.

The company is a member of the Dax.

Inclusion in an index offers certain advantages for a stock.

In addition to the advertising effect, it is also bought by index funds, for example, and thus ends up indirectly in the portfolios of many investors.

The announcement was honored on the stock exchange.

The morning after the announcement, Daimler Truck shares gained up to 1.74 percent.

With a market value of almost 27 billion euros, according to calculations by experts during the regular review of the indices in March, Daimler Truck also has the best chance of climbing into the leading index Dax, the Reuters news agency speculates.