There are fewer publicly traded companies and the ones that do exists are larger than ever. From Bloomberg: ==About 3,600 firms were listed on U.S. stock excha

There are fewer publicly traded companies and the ones that do exists are larger than ever. From Bloomberg: ==About 3,600 firms were listed on U.S. stock exchanges at the end of 2017, down more than half from 1997.== https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-09/where-have-all-the-u-s-public-companies-gone https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-09/where-...