Tech, Particularly Apple, Still Dominate Market Cap List

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Tech, Particularly Apple, Still Dominate Market Cap List

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The worries about slowing growth among major tech companies have not kept them from dominating the list of public corporations by market capitalization, according to The Online Investor.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) leads the list, despite anxiety about the growth of its iPhone franchise. Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), the largest energy company in the world, holds the second spot. The balance of the list includes America’s two large conglomerates, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE). The list also includes a number of consumer electronics public corporations and some of America’s large banks. Few if any tech companies would have made the list half a century ago.

Whether AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) are tech companies is a matter for debate. Land-line businesses continue to disappear, replaced by cellular and fiber to the home, fundamentally tech distribution operations.
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The Online Investor list:

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
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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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