Visualizing the World’s Top 25 Companies by Market Cap
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In this graphic, we compare the world’s top 25 companies by market capitalization (market cap), as of Aug. 19, 2024. All figures were sourced from Companiesmarketcap.com.
Companies in this graphic are color-coded by their nationality, which highlights America’s dominance in terms of creating highly valuable companies.
Data and Key Takeaways
The data we used to create this graphic is listed in the table below.
RankCountryCompanyMarket Cap
1 USApple$3.4T
2 USNVIDIA$3.2T
3 USMicrosoft$3.1T
4 USAlphabet$2.1T
5 USAmazon$1.9T
6 Saudi ArabiaSaudi Aramco$1.8T
7 USMeta Platforms$1.3T
8 USBerkshire Hathaway$967B
9 TaiwanTSMC$910B
10 USEli Lilly$830B
11 USBroadcom$781B
12 USTesla$712B
13 USJPMorgan Chase$613B
14 DenmarkNovo Nordisk$603B
15 USWalmart$593B
16 USUnitedHealth$534B
17 USExxon Mobil$527B
18 USVisa$519B
19 ChinaTencent$444B
20 USMastercard$431B
21 USProcter & Gamble$396B
22 South KoreaSamsung$390B
23 USCostco$387B
24 USJohnson & Johnson$384B
25 USOracle$380B
From this dataset we can see that 20 of the top 25 companies are based in the United States.
Narrowing it down to trillion-dollar companies, all are American with the exception of Saudi Aramco, which happens to be the world’s most valuable oil company.
We can also see that there are two companies close to reaching the trillion-dollar milestone. First is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which was valued at $967 billion as of Aug. 19, 2024. Shares of the holding company have climbed over 23% YTD.
Check out this graphic to see a breakdown of Berkshire’s top portfolio holdings, as of Q1 2024.
Second is Taiwan’s TSMC, whose NYSE-listed shares have climbed over 60% YTD in 2024. TSMC is the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, meaning it produces chips for clients like Apple and Nvidia (these companies design chips but do not produce them on their own).
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