Yesterday, Google eclipsed the $500 per share mark giving them a market cap of just over $156,000,000,000 ($156 Billion – yes billion!). GOOG is worth more than such American institutions as Coca Cola ($110 B), Oracle ($101 B), IBM ($140 B), FedEx ($36 B), Apple ($75 B), General Motors ($18 B) and even the world’s largest computer chip-maker Intel ($124 B).

Is Google the most valuable company on the market today? Close – but there are 14 other heavy-weights that Google still has to knock off:

Google Looking Up14. Cisco - $163 Billion – The only company in Silicon Valley to stay ahead of Google

13. Berkshire Hathaway – $165 Billion – Want to buy one share in Warren Buffet’s company? Fork over $107,000.00

12. JP Morgan Chase - $165 Billion – Global financial services and Chase banks

11. Altria – $176 Billion – Who? Altria is a holding company that owns Phillip Morris, Kraft and more

10. AIG – $186 Billion – Insurance holding company – you’ve seen the commercials probably

9. Johnson & Johnson - $193 Billion – That’s a lot of q-tips and baby oil

8. Pfizer – $194 Billion - Best known on the Net as makers of Viagra

7. Wal-Mart – $199 Billion – Blue dot stock special

6. Proctor & Gamble – $200 Billion – Branded consumer goods products giant

5. Bank of America - $245 Billion – It’s good to be a bank

4. CitiGroup – $248 Billion – CitiBank’s parent company

3. Microsoft – $294 Billion – A little company behind Windows and Office

2. General Electric – $369 Billion – NBC, lightbulbs, capital and much more

And the most valuable company right now is…

1. ExxonMobil – $428 Billion – As long as you keep filling up, Google will have a hard time knocking them off…


Posted by Chris Winfield at 10:33 am
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