Stock Market Power Rankings

Let's have some fun. People love ranked lists of everything from fantasy football lineups to the year's hottest songs, so let's give Wall Street's biggest stocks the same kind of platform.

We're sizing up some of the biggest companies that trade on stateside exchanges, a pool that includes more than 200 potential investments. We'll rank them based on a mix of their size ( market capitalization), momentum (total return over the past year), and recent news. As companies' fortunes rise and fall, we'll adjust our power rankings every week.

Let's go over this brand-new list of 50 top large-cap stocks, starting with the cream of the crop: the top 10.