Verizon (ticker symbol: VZ) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Global Select Market. Verizon (ticker symbol: VZC) also maintains a standard listing on the London Stock Exchange. The historical stock price graph is available on tablet and PC.
Definition: A publicly held company is a stock corporation in which the shares of stock are available to the public.
While often the largest public companies are recognizable, some of the largest private companies are far less known. For example, privately owned Cargill, a large conglomerate heavily involved in agricultural and food production, had revenues of nearly $135 billion in 2014.he company went public in 1988 and became one of the largest publically-traded PC makers in the world. Dell became one of the largest privately held companies in the country after Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners bought back the publicly traded shares in 2013.