I’m am enjoying these lists that I’m creating every now and then. Compiling them is becoming more fun by the day, and it seems that my readers like them as well. Today I am listing the top 100 companies (that are publicly traded in the US markets) by market capitalization. I always thought that Apple was the largest company by market cap, but it seems that I was wrong. Here’s the list:

As you can see, the company with the largest market cap is (surprise surprise!) EXXON, an oil company. With a market cap of almost $400 billion, I don’t see EXXON being surpassed by market cap anytime soon, even by Apple (AAPL needs to be trading at $429 to surpass XOM and become the company with the largest market cap, assuming that XOM keeps trading at the same price of $80.21).

It’s interesting that a lot (if not most) companies in the above list are not US companies (Just look at the top 5).

Note #1: This list is valid at the time of publishing. As well all know, the market cap of any company changes every trading second!
Note #2: Telefonos de Mexico is listed in Yahoo (where the data comes from) as having a market cap of $292 billion, while it’s listed on Google finance as having a market cap of just over $10 billion. Don’t know what the real story of this stock is. Same goes for other companies, such as Hitachi.
Note #3: Some companies, such as Petroleo Brasileiro, are listed more than once, because they are trading under different stocks.