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list of the five largest American companies by market cap at 25-year intervals since the year 1900… 1900 1. U.S. Steel 2. Standard Oil 3. American Tobacco Company 4. Pennsylvania Railroad 5. Union Pacific Railroad 1925 1. Standard Oil (now divided into smaller companies) 2. AT&T 3. General Motors 4. U.S. Steel 5. DuPont 1950 1. AT&T 2. General Motors 3. Exxon (formerly part of Standard Oil) 4. U.S. Steel 5. Sears, Roebuck & Co. 1975 1. IBM 2. Exxon 3. AT&T 4. General Motors 5. Standard Oil of Indiana (Amoco) 2000 1. Microsoft 2. General Electric 3. Cisco Systems 4. ExxonMobil 5. Intel 2023 1. Apple 2. Microsoft 3. Alphabet (Google) 4. Amazon 5. NVIDIA