The 10 publicly traded companies with the largest market capitalizations.

Company Country Market Capitalization 1 Apple USA $626 billion 2 Exxon Mobil USA $405 billion 3 Microsoft USA $383 billion 4 Google USA $379 billion 5 Berkshire Hathaway USA $337 billion 6 Johnson & Johnson USA $295 billion 7 Wells Fargo USA $270 billion 8 GE USA $260 billion 9 Wal-Mart USA $246 billion 10 Alibaba China $246 billion

Alibaba makes the top ten, just weeks after becoming a publicly traded company. The next ten most valuable companies:

Company Country Market Capitalization 11 China Mobile China $240 billion* 12 Hoffmann-La Roche Switzerland $236 billion 13 Procter & Gamble USA $234 billion 14 Petro China China $228 billion 15 ICBC (bank) China $228 billion** 16 Royal Dutch Shell Netherlands $227 billion 17 Novartis Switzerland $224 billion 18 Nestle Switzerland $224 billion*** 19 JPMorgan Chase USA $224 billion 20 Chevron USA $210 billion

Petro China reached to top spot in 2010. I think NTT (Japan) also made the top spot (in 1999); NTT’s current market cap is $66 billion.

Market capitalization shown are of the close of business today, as shown on Yahoo Finance.

According to this March 2014 report the USA is home to 47 of the top 100 companies by market capitalization. From 2009 to 2014 that total has ranged from 37 to 47.

The range (during 2009 to 2014) of top 100 companies by country: China and Hong Kong (8 to 11), UK (8 to 11), Germany (2 to 6), France (4 to 7), Japan (2 to 6), Switzerland (3 to 5).

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A few other companies of interest:

Facebook, USA, current market cap is $210 billion.

Pfizer, USA, $184 billion.

Toyota, Japan, $182 billion.



China Construction Bank Corporation, China, $182 billion**.

Merck, USA, $161 billion.

BHP, Australia, $159 billion.

Walt Disney, USA, $154 billion.

Samsung, Korea, $152 billion.

Tencent, China, $143 billion**.

Bank of China, China, $133 billion**.

* China Mobile market cap taken from their website and converted to USD.

** calculation by taking cap from Yahoo Finance and converting to USD – even though it doesn’t say I am guessing they are quoting the cap in HK$ – which Google Finance also does.

*** from Google finance (the market cap varies depending on which symbol you use)

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