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The 30 biggest companies by market value that are age 30 or less:

Company-Year founded- Market cap (bill)- Founder(s)- When public- Change from 1st day close

Cisco 1984 $165.1 Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner March 26, 1990 32,888%

Google 1998 $140.6 Sergey Brin and Larry Page Aug. 19, 2004 360%

Oracle 1977 $86.1 Lawrence Ellison March 2, 1988 8,927%

Home Depot 1978 $85.2 Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank Aug. 20, 1984 11,959%

Amgen 1980 $80.3 Bill Bowes, Pitch Johnson, Ray Baddour and George Rathmann Sept. 7, 1984 66,294%

Apple 1976 $73.0 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Dec. 12, 1980 3,001%

UnitedHealth Group 1977 $69.5 Paul Ellwood and Richard Burke March 26, 1990 17,265%

Qualcomm 1985 $63.1 Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi Dec. 16, 1991 6,705%

Dell 1984 $53.6 Michael Dell Aug. 17, 1988 24,868%

eBay 1995 $45.8 Pierre Omidyar Sept. 24, 1998 1,598%

Yahoo 1994 $40.2 Jerry Yang and David Filo April 12, 1996 2,063%

Capital One Financial 1993 $33.5 Richard Fairbank and Nigel Morris Nov. 16, 1994 1,438%

Las Vegas Sands 1988 $32.6 Sheldon Adelson Dec. 16, 2004 91%

Gilead Sciences 1987 $32.5 Michael Riordan Jan. 22, 1992 2,712%

EMC 1979 $31.9 Richard Egan and Roger Marino Dec. 16, 1988 15,389%

DirecTV Group 1977 $29.3 Formed by General Motors Dec. 23, 2003 47%

Caremark Rx 1993 $26.8 Richard Scrushy and Larry House Feb. 22, 1995 266%

Boston Scientific 1979 $25.2 John Abele and Pete Nicholas May 19, 1992 306%

Starbucks 1985 $24.5 Howard Schultz June 26, 1992 4,805%

Adobe Systems 1982 $22.6 John Warnock and Charles Geschke Aug. 14, 1986 16,797%

Celgene 1980 $19.8 Spun off from Celanese March 26, 1990 7,942%

Staples 1985 $19.4 Tom Stemberg March 26, 1990 3,323%

First Data 1989 $18.9 Henry Duques, spun off by American Express April 9, 1992 345%

Medco Health Solutions 1983 $17.6 Martin Wygod, later acquired and spun off from Merck Aug. 21, 2003 134%

American Tower 1995 $16.8 Spun off by American Radio Systems June 5, 1998 74%

Biogen Idec 1985 $16.6 Walter Gilbert and others Sept. 17, 1991 1,484%

Symantec 1982 $16.6 Gary Hendrix March 26, 1990 1,348%

Genworth Financial 2003 $16.1 Spun off from General Electric May 25, 2004 85%

EOG Resources 1985 $16.0 A former unit of Enron Oct. 4, 1989 1,231%

Broadcom 1991 $18.9 Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas April 17, 1998 286%

*Sources: Hoover's, Capital IQ, MSN Money, Apple, USA TODAY research

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