What are the top 100 companies, by sector and by country, in the world?
After the collapse of COVID-19, global equity markets have seen a strong recovery. The 100 largest companies in the world were worth a record $ 31.7 trillion as of March 31, 2021, up 48% year-over-year. By comparison, the combined GDP of the United States and China was $ 35.7 trillion in 2020.
In today's chart , Visual Capitalis t's Jenna Ross uses data from PwC to show the world's largest companies by market capitalization, as well as the countries and industries they come from.
PwC ranked the largest publicly traded companies based on their market capitalization in US dollars. It is also worth noting that the industry classification is based on the FTSE Russell Industry Classification benchmark and a company's location is based on where its headquarters are located.
Within the ranking, there was a wide disparity in value. Apple was worth over $ 2 trillion, more than 16 times that of Anheuser-Busch (AB InBev), which took 100th place at $ 128 billion.
In total, 59 companies were based in the United States, making up 65% of the total market capitalization of the top 100. China and its regions were the second most common location for company headquarters, with 14 companies on the list.
What are some of the notable changes of the world's largest companies from last year's rankings?
Tesla's market cap has increased by a staggering 565%, temporarily making Elon Musk the richest person in the world. Food delivery platform Meituan and PayPal have benefited from the growing popularity of e-commerce with their market capitalizations growing by 221% and 151% respectively.
Technology companies TSMC and ASML Holdings were also in the top 10 on the rise, thanks to a shortage of semiconductor chips and growing demand.
So 2020 has led to a growth in companies related to new technologies or factors that got a boost during the lockdown. In addition, a large prevalence of US companies followed by Chinese ones is evident, other states such as Ireland are present only because they are fiscal locations. Even Germany is secondary in all of this.
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