ExxonMobil , America ’s big oil society , was in unusual territorial dominion this morning : number 6 . As in , the sixth declamatory company in the United States . The ship’s company has been in the top five annually since 1980 . The companies that shove ExxonMobil out ? Amazon and Facebook . That mean that the five largest companies in the US are now all technology - based .
The size of the largest company is based on market capitalization . Amazon ’s current marketplace capitalisation is $ 364 billion , while ExxonMobil ’s has slid to $ 356 billion . It all came to a read/write head after weaker earnings from ExxonMobil reported on Friday sent the ship’s company ’s ploughshare tumbling on Monday .
Who rounds out the top five largest US companies now ? Apple , which is the large , followed by Alphabet ( the company formerly have sex as Google ) , Microsoft , Amazon , and Facebook .
As theWall Street Journal luff out , ExxonMobil is still the biggest non - tech company in the United States . But Berkshire Hathaway is raging on its heels . ExxonMobil ’s market cap is $ 356 billion , while Berkshire Hathaway is at $ 355 billion . intimately watch your back , ExxonMobil .
[ Wall Street Journal ]
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