Facebook is buying WhatsApp for an astounding $19 billion. The company only has about 50 employees and was founded less than five years ago.
Here are 50 major companies, compiled by RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal, that have been around a lot longer and are worth less than WhatsApp:
American Airlines - $12.3B
Chipotle - $17.1B
Campbell Soup - $13.6
Akamai - $10.9B
The Gap - $19B
Fidelity - $15.8B
Kohl's - $11.1B
Kroger - $19.4
Loews - $17B
Macy's - $19.6B
Tiffany & Co. - $11.4B
Tyson Foods - $13.1B
Under Armour - $11.4B
Whole Foods Market - $19.3B
Coach - $13.5B
Consolidated Edison (ConEd) - $16.2B
Harley-Davidson - $14.1B
AmerisourceBergen - $15.9
Blackstone Group - $17.8B
Chesapeake Energy - $17.2B
Citrix Systems - $10.7B
Discovery Communicatons - $19.1B
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group - $10.2B
Expedia -$10.2B
Hertz - $11.5B
Icahn Enterprises -$13.1B
The J.M. Smucker Company - $10B
Marriott International - $15.4B
Mattel - $12B
MGM Resorts - $12.7
Monster Beverage - $12B
Moody's - $17.08B
News Corp - $10.27B
Nielsen - $17.6B
Nordstrom - $11.4B
Progressive - $14.3B
Ralph Lauren - $14.2B
Red Hat - $11.1B
Royal Caribbean Cruises - $11.4B
Ryanair - $15.5B
Sherwin-Williams - $19.4B
Southwest Airlines - $14.7B
Starwood Hotels & Resorts - $14.9B
Symantec - $14.4B
TD Ameritrade - $18.4B
The Carlyle Group - $11.1B
Workday - $17B
Xerox - $13.2B
Activison-Blizzard - $13.9B
Alcoa - $12.2B