Their best days as companies are ahead, but their best returns as stocks are behind them.
I used to think that too until one of the largest market caps in our country went up over 15% in a single day last week. That was amazing to me.
Here is the current top listing:
Large Cap Company Ticker Market Cap
($in billions)
Apple Inc AAPL 672.46
Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM 404.86
Microsoft Corporation MSFT 397.47
Alphabet Inc GOOGL 371.20
Alphabet Inc GOOG 364.30
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.A 349.70
Johnson & Johnson JNJ 304.43
Wells Fargo & Co. WFC 276.81
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WMT 273.88
General Electric Co GE 270.34
Procter & Gamble Co. PG 239.76
JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM 226.53
Chevron Corporation CVX 220.18
Verizon Communications Inc VZ 209.52
Facebook, Inc. FB 204.40
Coca-Cola Co (The) KO 193.69
Pfizer Inc PFE 191.79
AT&T Inc T 183.46
Oracle Corp. ORCL 181.33
Bank of America Corp. BAC 179.41