Chart of the day: Where Facebook's market cap falls in the top 25

MAY 22, 2012
By  Mark Bruno
Today is the day. No, not the day that Jamie Dimon finally gets a reprieve from the financial media. And no, not the day that Bono officially becomes the wealthiest rock star in the world. But the day that the public can finally get its hands on shares of Facebook. With the listing to become official at 11am EST. today, Mark Zuckerburg will become the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world - the 23rd largest on U.S. listed markets, to be exact. With an opening price set at $38 per share, Facebook's market-cap now stands around $104 billion. Below, courtesy of our friends at Capital IQ, is a listing of the 25 largest companies in the U.S. based on their EOD market-caps on May 16. Facebook quickly puts itself in some pretty established company, jumping past Amazon and Qualcomm, and is nipping at the heels of Pepsi and few other market behemoths. See below:

The 25 largest U.S. listed companies

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Rank Company Name Exchange:Ticker Market Capitalization [05/16/2012] ($USDmm)
1 Apple Inc. Ticker:(AAPL) $510,614.00
2 Exxon Mobil Corporation Ticker:(XOM) $384,240.50
3 Microsoft Corporation Ticker:(MSFT) $251,185.90
4 International Business Machines Corporation Ticker:(IBM) $230,385.40
5 Google Inc. Ticker:(GOOG) $205,047.00
6 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Ticker:(WMT) $201,286.00
7 General Electric Company Ticker:(GE) $201,159.00
8 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Ticker:(BRK.A) $200,462.50
9 Chevron Corporation Ticker:(CVX) $197,464.70
10 AT&T, Inc. Ticker:(T) $194,593.00
11 Procter & Gamble Co. Ticker:(PG) $176,161.40
12 Johnson & Johnson Ticker:(JNJ) $174,971.40
13 The Coca-Cola Company Ticker:(KO) $172,348.10
14 Wells Fargo & Company Ticker:(WFC) $169,886.00
15 Pfizer Inc. Ticker:(PFE) $169,531.40
16 Philip Morris International, Inc. Ticker:(PM) $145,382.20
17 JPMorgan Chase & Co. Ticker:(JPM) $134,984.40
18 Intel Corporation Ticker:(INTC) $133,296.30
19 Oracle Corporation Ticker:(ORCL) $132,934.80
20 Merck & Co. Inc. Ticker:(MRK) $116,279.00
21 Verizon Communications Inc. Ticker:(VZ) $116,141.40
22 Pepsico, Inc. Ticker:(PEP) $107,522.60
23 Facebook Ticker:(FB) $104,000.00
24 QUALCOMM Incorporated Ticker:(QCOM) $101,330.80
25 Amazon.com Inc. Ticker:(AMZN) $100,944.90
Source: Capital IQ

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