Here is a link to a visual of US top-50 companies by market cap http://ift.tt/2qhKJiO.
Some observations:
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IBM market cap is one-third of that of Facebook.
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Amazon market cap is more than double of that of Walmart. Amazon market cap is more than Walmart and Home Depot combined market cap.
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The top-5 companies by market cap are technology companies. These 5 companies, 1% of the S&P 500 companies, hold 13.3% of the total market cap of S&P 500 companies. Their combined market cap is $2.9 trillion, whereas the total market cap of all S&P 500 companies is $21.8 trillion.
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The top 50 companies hold nearly 50% of the total market cap of S&P 500 companies. The combined market cap of top 50 companies is $10.7 trillion, whereas the total market cap of all 500 companies is $21.8 trillion.
Submitted May 15, 2017 at 01:55AM by AnalystNeo http://ift.tt/2rg8TaH
