10 Most Expensive Stocks Ever
4. Google
Industry: Internet
Stock price: $753.83 per share
Global rank: 4
Google Inc. is a United States conglomerate, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The world known company Google, provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. The company first started its operation as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and later on August 19, 2004, it went public and called for its IPO ( initial public offering). In 2006, the company shifted to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California. The company's major part of revenue is generated from advertising in its AdWords. Its total advertising revenues were $42.5 billion in 2012.
3. NVR
Industry: Real estate
Stock price: $1,040.86 per share
Global rank: 3
NVR is an American real estate development company. Residential and corporate buildings are constructed and sold by the homebuilding units of the company named Ryan Homes, Fox Ridge Homes, NVHomes and Rymarc Homes.
Ryan Homes, established in 1948, based in Pittsburgh, has constructed more than 300,000 homes. Fox Ridge Homes, incorporated in 1961, is engaged in constructing structures for the first-time move-up markets in the Nashville, Tennessee area.
NVHomes, founded in 1979, functions primarily in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore metropolitan areas. Rymarc Homes, instituted in 1982, serves the first-time homebuyers of Columbia, South Carolina area.
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