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Highest Market Caps Today vs. 1999
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Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009 | 5:04 PM ET
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By: Ariel Nelson
Director of Market Data & Content Services
Director of Market Data & Content Services
The Dow [.DJIA
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] crossed above 10,000 today for the first time in over a year. 10 years ago, the Dow closed above 10,000 for the first time on March 29, 1999. Here are the top 20 market caps of the S&P [.SPX
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], based on the S&P components at their respective points in time (data from Capital IQ).
Some observations:
- Today's leader, Exxon [XOM
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], has a market cap that is ~75% of what Microsoft [MSFT
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] led with in March 1999, but has roughly doubled in the past 10 years
- GE [GE
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] was also bigger then than Exxon is today and has lost more than 50% of its market cap in the past 10 years
- Wal-Mart [WMT
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] remains in the #3 slot with roughly the same market cap
- Google [GOOG
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], JP Morgan Chase (was two companies in 1999) [JPM
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], and Apple [AAPL
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] are now in the top 10 market caps but were not even on the list in 1999
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