Does state of incorporation matter? · the national picture

Where America is incorporated

Every U.S.-listed public company, placed in its state of incorporation (not its headquarters). Drag the size filter and watch the map re-sort itself — Delaware holds the large-cap core, Nevada is a micro-cap tail that empties as you raise the floor, and Texas is the firm we are tracking. Every number is computed live from one dataset.

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Map labels show the raw count or each state's share of the national total

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At full scale the country is Delaware — 3,100 incorporations, more than five times any other state. Push the size floor to $100M and Nevada collapses from 579 to 138: three-quarters of Nevada's companies are micro-caps. Texas is small by count (87) but concentrated in a few very large issuers. Maryland and Massachusetts rank high because they are the REIT and fund-charter venues — toggle to "Operating only" to strip those out.

Source-status note. Capital IQ screening diagnostic, not the Reincorporation Index source of record. State-of-incorporation values are current-screen fields that may include recent reincorporations. Basis = all entities with a stated U.S. state of incorporation (5,634 across the 50 states; Puerto Rico and Guam excluded).

SMU Cox · Corporate Governance Initiative. Descriptive market-structure context, not legal or investment advice. All counts hydrate from a single embedded dataset — no hard-coded figures. Geography: us-atlas; projection d3 geoAlbersUsa.