Feature: Which company is the biggest? A primer on corporate valuation

So the order came down from the Orbiting HQ, and I'm here to make it happen:

Make people a little more smarter than "DURR HUGE MARKET CAP DURRR!"

The data that follows was culled from Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poors, is current as of February 4, 2011, and reflects results over the last 12 months unless otherwise noted. Let's start with the simplest metrics.

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