本周一，社交媒体巨头Facebook的市值一度越过2000亿美元，跻身高端科技企业行列。但截至周二收盘，该公司股价小幅下跌，总市值稍低于该俱乐部的入门标准。
尽管如此，据Money报道，Facebook公司自IPO（即首次公开发行股票）以来，仅用两年时间就越过了2000亿美元门槛，速度快于谷歌、微软和苹果，公司的价值也超过了IBM、英特尔和甲骨文等传统高科技企业。
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Facebook’s value briefly passed the $200 billion mark on Monday, placing the social media giantin a rarefied club. By Tuesday’s close, however, it shares fell slightly, and the company’smarket capitalization dipped just below the threshold.
Still, Facebook reached the $200 billion mark in just two years since its initial public offering,faster than Google, Microsoft and Apple, according to Money.It’s also surpassed the value oflegacy tech companies like IBM, Intel and Oracle.
Facebook is now No. 18 on the list of U.S. companies by value. For tech companies, it’s No. 5.
But interesting to note: Facebook was also worth much more at the time of its initial publicoffering than some of its rivals, notes Money. For example, Facebook was valued at $100 millionjust after its IPO in 2012, while Microsoft was below $1 billion for its IPO in 1986.
Apple tops the charts with a market cap of $587 billion. But it took a while to get there. It firstpassed $200 billion on March 2010, according to MacRumors, nearly 30 years after its IPO – andaround the time it introduced the iPad.
Trailing behind Apple among U.S. tech companies is Google (it’s actually third overall behindExxonMobil). Google, which took nearly seven years to hit the $200 billion mark after goingpublic in 2004, has a market cap of about $406 billion.
The next tech company to go well beyond the $200 billion mark? Microsoft, which did so in1998, a little under 11 years after its IPO, according to CNN.
only two more tech companies rank above Facebook on the list: China Mobile at $263 billionand Verizon at $205 billion, which rank at the No. 9 and No. 17 spots. Facebook rounds outthe list at No. 18 currently.
Here’s a full list of the top 20 tech companies as of September 8 when Facebook first surpassedthe $200 billion mark.*
1. Apple
Market cap: $589 billion
3. Google
Market cap: $406 billion
4. Microsoft
Market cap: $382 billion
9. China Mobile
Market cap: $263 billion
17. Verizon
Market cap: $205 billion
18. Facebook
Market cap: $202 billion
* Information compiled from Dogs of the Dow which charts companies by market cap.
