TOP 10 · #1 TALLY — Who wore the crown · and for how long
Who wore the crown — Each era's #1 company and how long it reigned.
Only a handful of firms ever held S&P 500 #1 in any decade. Read the crown holders first — ranked by decades worn — then the 'crownless lifers' who lived on the list but never reached the top, and finally the meteors who flashed across a single decade and vanished.
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Only a handful of firms ever held S&P 500 #1 in any decade. Read the crown holders first — ranked by decades worn — then the 'crownless lifers' who lived on the list but never reached the top, and finally the meteors who flashed across a single decade and vanished. The data is refreshed by the History of Market pipeline and published as a stable JSON endpoint for research, citation, and AI-agent use.
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Data & Source
Yahoo Finance · Macrotrends · Robert Shiller · FRED · S&P Global · Nasdaq · NBER.
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Where does this data come from?
History of Market combines public market and macro datasets including Yahoo Finance, Macrotrends, Robert Shiller, FRED, S&P Global, Nasdaq, and NBER. The exact endpoint for this panel is linked below.
How often is it updated?
Daily-tier datasets refresh after the U.S. market close, with a broader weekly refresh on Sunday. The timestamp shown on this page comes from the JSON payload.
Can I use the data?
Yes, for research and education with attribution to History of Market. Upstream data sources retain their own terms.