Wealth-X Reveals: The Top Five Biggest American IPOs Of All Time

Below are the top five largest IPOs in the US to date:

Rank	Company	Amount Raised (US$ billion)	Year of IPO	Major Shareholder	Value of Stake On First Day of IPO (US$ million)
1	Visa	17.90	2008	JP Morgan Chase & Co.	3,642
2	Facebook	16.00	2012	Mark Zuckerberg	19,253
3	AT&T Wireless Group	10.62	2000	AT&T Corp.	85,807
4	Mondelez International*	8.68	2001	Altria**	36,719
5	United Parcel Service	5.47	1999	John W. Rogers	30.3

* Previously known as Kraft Foods
** Previously known as Philip Morris Companies

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Note: IPOs, or initial public offerings, are how some millionaires and billionaires made some or all of their money on Wall Street and similar stock exchanges.  Research the pros and cons of IPOs here.