GOOGLE

Shares of the company got to $430 from the original offer of $85 a share last year. The stock's rise pushed the company's value to $119.2 billion, making it the nation's 26th-most-valuable publicly traded company, surpassing Cisco Systems, Amgen and Coca-Cola (data from Reuters Fundamentals). Google's price has doubled this year — the only $100 billion company to do so this year.



Google paid 1 Billion Dollars for 5% of AOL with an exclusive contract as strategic partner with Time Warner.