The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world, published by: sales, profit, assets and market value. The list has been published annually since 2003.

By country

Forbes Global 2000 as of 2023:

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|-style="background-color:#efefef;"

! Rank !! Country/region !! Companies !! Highest-ranked company

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| 1 ||||style="text-align:center;"|620||JPMorgan Chase

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| 2 ||||style="text-align:center;"|298||ICBC

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| 3||||style="text-align:center;"|192||Toyota

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| 4 ||||style="text-align:center;"|62||TotalEnergies

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| 5 ||||style="text-align:center;"|61||Samsung Electronics

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| 6 ||||style="text-align:center;"|60||Shell

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| 7 ||||style="text-align:center;"|57||Royal Bank of Canada

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| 8 ||||style="text-align:center;"|55||Reliance Industries

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| 9 ||||style="text-align:center;"|50||Volkswagen Group

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| 10 ||||style="text-align:center;"|45||Taiwan Semiconductor

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| 11 ||||style="text-align:center;"|44||China Mobile

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| 12 ||||style="text-align:center;"|44||Nestlé

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| 13 ||||style="text-align:center;"|32||BHP

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| 14 ||||style="text-align:center;"|28||Eni

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| 15 ||||style="text-align:center;"|25||Stellantis

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| 16 ||||style="text-align:center;"|24||Volvo

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| 17 ||||style="text-align:center;"|22||Petrobras

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| 17 ||||style="text-align:center;"|22||Accenture

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| 19 ||||style="text-align:center;"|20||Santander

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| 20 ||||style="text-align:center;"|17||

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| 20 ||||style="text-align:center;"|17||PTT

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| 22 ||||style="text-align:center;"|16||First Abu Dhabi Bank

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| 23 ||||style="text-align:center;"|14||Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation

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| 24 ||||style="text-align:center;"|13||América Móvil

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| 25 ||||style="text-align:center;"|12||FirstRand

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| 26 ||||style="text-align:center;"|11||Bank Leumi

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| 27 ||||style="text-align:center;"|10||Møller-Maersk

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| 27 ||||style="text-align:center;"|10||Nordea Bank

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| 29 ||||style="text-align:center;"|9||Equinor

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| 29 ||||style="text-align:center;"|9||OMV Group

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| 29 ||||style="text-align:center;"|9||Koç Holding

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| 32 ||||style="text-align:center;"|8||Bank Rakyat Indonesia

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| 32 ||||style="text-align:center;"|8||Maybank

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| 32 ||||style="text-align:center;"|8||Quiñenco

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| 32 ||||style="text-align:center;"|8||Eurobank Ergasias

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| 36 ||||style="text-align:center;"|7||PKN Orlen

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| 37 ||||style="text-align:center;"|6||Anheuser-Busch InBev

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| 37 ||||style="text-align:center;"|6||Qatar National Bank

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| 37 ||||style="text-align:center;"|6||ArcelorMittal

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| 37 ||||style="text-align:center;"|6||Arch Capital Group

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| 41 ||||style="text-align:center;"|5||Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam

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| 42 ||||style="text-align:center;"|4||Ecopetrol

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| 42 ||||style="text-align:center;"|4||EDP - Energias de Portugal

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| 42 ||||style="text-align:center;"|4||SM Investments

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| 45 ||||style="text-align:center;"|2||Kuwait Finance House

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| 45 ||||style="text-align:center;"|2||MOL Hungarian Oil

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| 45 ||||style="text-align:center;"|2||Nu Holdings

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| 45 ||||style="text-align:center;"|2||Kaspi.kz JSC

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| 45 ||||style="text-align:center;"|2||Attijariwafa Bank

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| 45 ||||style="text-align:center;"|2||Dangote Cement

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| 51 ||||style="text-align:center;"|1||Cez Group

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| 51 ||||style="text-align:center;"|1||YPF

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| 51 ||||style="text-align:center;"|1||Credicorp

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| 51 ||||style="text-align:center;"|1||MercadoLibre

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| 51 ||||style="text-align:center;"|1|||Commercial International Bank

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| 51 ||||style="text-align:center;"|1||Arab Bank

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| 51 ||||style="text-align:center;"|1||Bank Muscat

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| 51 ||||style="text-align:center;"|1||Pakistan State Oil

|}

2025 list

In 2025, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

  1. JPMorgan Chase
  2. Berkshire Hathaway
  3. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
  4. Saudi Aramco
  5. Amazon
  6. Bank of America
  7. China Construction Bank
  8. Agricultural Bank of China
  9. Alphabet
  10. Microsoft

2024 list

In 2024, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

  1. JPMorgan Chase
  2. Berkshire Hathaway
  3. Saudi Aramco
  4. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
  5. Bank of America
  6. Amazon
  7. China Construction Bank
  8. Microsoft
  9. Agricultural Bank of China
  10. Alphabet

2023 list

In 2023, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"

|+ 2023 top ten

! Rank !! Company !! Headquarters !! Industry !! Sales <br /> (billion $) !! Profits <br /> (billion $) !! Assets <br /> (billion $)

|-

|1

|JPMorgan Chase

|New York

|Banking, financial services

|179.93

|41.8

|3,700

|-

|2

|Saudi Aramco

| Dhahran

|Oil and gas

|393.16

|61.69

|3694

|-

|3

|Citigroup

| New York

|Banking, financial services

|216.77

|52.47

|6,100

|-

|4

|Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

| Beijing

|Banking, financial services

|203.08

|48.25

|5,000

|-

|5

|China Construction Bank

| Beijing

|Banking, financial services

|186.14

|37.92

|5,400

|-

|7

|Alphabet

|Mountain View, California

|Conglomerate

|282.85

|58.59

|369.5

|-

|6

|Bank of America

|Charlotte

|Banking, financial services

|133.84

|28.62

|3,200

|-

|8

|Berkshire Hathaway

|Omaha

|Conglomerate

|589.47

|156.36

|653.9

|-

|9

|Microsoft

|Redmond

|Software

|207.59

|69.02

|380.1

|-

|10

|Apple Inc.

|Cupertino

|Consumer Electronics, Software, Services

|385.1

|94.32

|332.2

|}

2022 list

In 2022, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|+ 2022 top ten

! Rank !! Company !! Headquarters !! Industry !! Sales <br /> (billion $) !! Profits <br /> (billion $) !! Assets <br /> (billion $) !! Market value <br /> (billion $)

|-

|1

|Berkshire Hathaway

|Omaha

|Conglomerate

|276.1

|89.9

|958.8

|741.5

|-

|2

|Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

|Beijing

|Banking, financial Service

|208.1

|54.0

|5,518.5

|214.4

|-

|3

|Saudi Aramco

| Dhahran

|Oil and gas

|400.4

|105.4

|576.0

|2,292.1

|-

|4

|JPMorgan Chase

| New York

|Banking, financial services

|124.5

|42.1

|3,954.7

|374.5

|-

|5

|China Construction Bank

| Beijing

|Banking, financial services

|202.1

|46.9

|4,747.0

|181.3

|-

|6

|Amazon.com, Inc.

| Seattle

|Conglomerate

|469.8

|33.4

|420.6

|1,468.4

|-

|7

|Apple Inc.

| Cupertino

|Consumer Electronics, Software, Services

|678.7

|100.6

|381.2

|2,640.3

|-

|8

|Citigroup

| New York

|Banking, financial services

|181.4

|37.4

|4,561.1

|133.4

|-

|9

|Bank of America

| Charlotte

|Banking, financial services

|96.8

|31.0

|3,238.2

|303.1

|-

|10

|Toyota

|Toyota, Aichi

|Automotive

|281.8

|28.2

|552.5

|237.7

|}

2021 list

In 2021, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|+ 2021 top ten

! Rank !! Company !! Headquarters !! Industry !! Sales <br /> (billion $) !! Profits <br /> (billion $) !! Assets <br /> (billion $) !! Market value <br /> (billion $)

|-

|1

|Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

|Beijing

|Banking, financial Service

|190.5

|45.8

|4914.7

|249.5

|-

|2

|JPMorgan Chase

| New York City

|Banking, financial services

|136.2

|40.4

|3689.3

|464.8

|-

|3

|Berkshire Hathaway

| Omaha

|Banking, financial services

|245.5

|42.5

|873.7

|624.4

|-

|4

|China Construction Bank

| Beijing

|Banking, financial services

|173.5

|39.3

|4301.7

|210.4

|-

|5

|Saudi Aramco

| Dhahran

|Oil and gas

|229.7

|49.3

|510.3

|1897.2

|-

|6

|Apple Inc.

| Cupertino

|Consumer Electronics, Software, Services

|294

|63.9

|354.1

|2252.3

|-

|6

|Bank of America

| Charlotte

|Banking, financial services

|98.8

|17.9

|2832.2

|336.3

|-

|6

|Ping An Insurance

|Shenzhen

|Financial services

|169.1

|20.8

|1453.8

|211.2

|-

|9

|Citigroup

|New York

|Banking, financial services

|153.9

|31.3

|4159.9

|140.1

|-

|10

|Amazon.com, Inc.

| Seattle

|Conglomerate

|386.1

|21.3

|321.2

|1711.8

|}

2020 list

In 2020, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|+ 2020 top ten

! Rank !! Company !! Headquarters !! Industry !! Sales <br /> (billion $) !! Profits <br /> (billion $) !! Assets <br /> (billion $) !! Market value <br /> (billion $)

|-

|1

|Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

|Beijing

|Banking, financial services

|177.2

|45.3

|4322.5

|242.3

|-

|2

|China Construction Bank

|Beijing

|Banking, financial services

|162.1

|38.9

|3822

|203.8

|-

|3

|JPMorgan Chase

| New York City

|Banking, financial services

|142.9

|30

|3139.4

|291.7

|-

|4

|Berkshire Hathaway

| Omaha

|Banking, financial services

|254.6

|81.4

|817.7

|455.4

|-

|5

|Citigroup

|New York

|Banking, financial services

|148.7

|30.9

|3697.5

|147.2

|-

|6

|Saudi Aramco

|Dhahran

|Oil and gas

|329.8

|88.2

|398.3

|1284.8

|-

|7

|Ping An Insurance

|Shenzhen

|Financial services

|155

|18.8

|1218.6

|187.2

|-

|8

|Bank of America

| Charlotte

|Banking, financial services

|112.1

|24.1

|2620

|208.6

|-

|9

|Apple Inc.

| Cupertino

|Consumer Electronics, Software, Services

|267.7

|57.2

|320.4

|1285.5

|-

|10

|Bank of China

|Beijing

|Banking, financial services

|135.4

|27.2

|3387

|112.8

|}

2019 list

In 2019, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|- style="background-color:#efefef;"

|+ 2019 top ten

! Rank !! Company !! Headquarters !! Industry !! Sales <br /> (billion $) !! Profits <br /> (billion $) !! Assets <br /> (billion $) !! Market value <br /> (billion $)

|-

| 1 ||Industrial and Commercial Bank of China|| Beijing || Banking, financial services||175.9||45.2||4034.5||305.1

|-

| 2 ||JPMorgan Chase|| New York City ||Banking, financial services||132.9||32.7||2737.2||368.5

|-

| 3 ||China Construction Bank||Beijing||Banking, financial services||150.3||38.8||3382.4||225

|-

| 4 ||Citigroup||New York City ||Banking, financial services||137.5||30.9||3293.1||197

|-

| 5 ||Bank of America|| Charlotte ||Banking, financial services||111.9||28.5||2377.2||287.3

|-

| 6 ||Apple Inc.|| Cupertino ||Consumer Electronics, Software, Services||261.7||59.4||373.7||961.3

|-

| 7 ||Ping An Insurance||Shenzhen||Financial services||151.8||16.3||1038.3||220.2

|-

| 8 ||American Express||Buffalo||Banking, financial services||126.7||27.5||3097.6||143

|-

| 9 ||Royal Dutch Shell||The Hague||Oil and gas||382.6||23.3||399.2||264.9

|-

| 10 ||Wells Fargo|| San Francisco|| Banking, financial services ||101.5||23.1||1887.8||214.7

|}

2018 list

In 2018, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|- style="background-color:#efefef;"

|+ 2018 top ten

! Rank !! Company !! Headquarters !! Industry !! Sales <br /> (billion $) !! Profits <br /> (billion $) !! Assets <br /> (billion $) !! Market value <br /> (billion $)

|-

| 1 ||Industrial and Commercial Bank of China|| Beijing || Banking, financial services ||165.3||43.7||4210.9||311

|-

| 2 ||China Construction Bank|| Beijing || Banking, financial services ||143.2||37.1||3631.6||261.2

|-

| 3 ||JPMorgan Chase|| New York City || Banking, financial services ||118.2||26.5||2609.8||387.7

|-

| 4 ||Berkshire Hathaway|| Omaha || Conglomerate||235.2||39.7||702.7||491.9

|-

| 5 ||Citigroup|| New York City || Banking, financial services ||129.3||29.6||3439.3||184.1

|-

| 6 ||Bank of America|| Charlotte || Banking, financial services ||92.2||16.6||2196.8||231.9

|-

| 7 ||Wells Fargo|| San Francisco || Banking, financial services ||103.0||21.7||1915.4||265.3

|-

| 8 ||Apple Inc.|| Cupertino || Consumer Electronics, Software, Services ||247.5||53.3||367.5||926.9

|-

| 9 ||Bank of China|| Beijing || Banking, financial services ||118.2||26.4||3204.2||158.6

|-

| 10 ||American Express|| Buffalo || Banking, financial services ||141.6||13.9||1066.4||181.4

|}

As a group, the Forbes Global 2000 in year 2018 accounts for $39.1* trillion in sales, $3.2 trillion in profit, $189* trillion in assets and $56.8* trillion in market value.

By industry sector

The top-ranked companies in each industry sector are as follows.

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|-style="background-color:#efefef;"

|+ 2018 top company by sector

! Sector !! Company !! Headquarters !! Overall <br /> rank !! Sales <br /> (billion $) !! Profits <br /> (billion $) !! Assets <br /> (billion $) !! Market value <br /> (billion $)

|-

| Advertising || WPP || London ||<span style="display:none">0301</span>#301 ||style="text-align:center;"|18.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|42.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|30.1

|-

| Aerospace & Defense || Boeing || Chicago ||<span style="display:none">0076</span>#76 ||style="text-align:center;"|96.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|5.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|94.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|85.3

|-

| Air Courier || United Parcel Service || Sandy Springs, Georgia|Sandy Springs ||<span style="display:none">0146</span>#146 ||style="text-align:center;"|58.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|38.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|93.3

|-

| Airline || Delta Air Lines || Atlanta ||<span style="display:none">0170</span>#170 ||style="text-align:center;"|40.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|53.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|34.4

|-

| Aluminum || Alcoa || New York City ||<span style="display:none">0757</span>#757 ||style="text-align:center;"|21.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|-0.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|36.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|13.7

|-

| Apparel/Accessories || Christian Dior || Paris ||<span style="display:none">0216</span>#216 ||style="text-align:center;"|41.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|68.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|31.4

|-

| Apparel/Footwear Retail || Inditex || A Coruña ||<span style="display:none">0310</span>#310 ||style="text-align:center;"|23.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|3.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|18.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|103.2

|-

| Auto & Truck Manufacturers || Toyota Motor || Toyota, Aichi|Toyota ||<span style="display:none">0010</span>#10 ||style="text-align:center;"|235.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|19.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|406.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|177.0

|-

| Auto & Truck Parts || Continental || Hanover ||<span style="display:none">0209</span>#209 ||style="text-align:center;"|43.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|3.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|36.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|43.7

|-

| Beverages || Anheuser-Busch InBev || Leuven ||<span style="display:none">0056</span>#56 ||style="text-align:center;"|43.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|8.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|136.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|204.6

|-

| Biotechs || Gilead Sciences || Foster City, California|Foster City ||<span style="display:none">0118</span>#118 ||style="text-align:center;"|32.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|18.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|51.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|138.1

|-

| Broadcasting & Cable || Comcast || Philadelphia ||<span style="display:none">0035</span>#35 ||style="text-align:center;"|74.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|8.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|166.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|148.2

|-

| Business & Personal Services || Alibaba || Hangzhou ||<span style="display:none">0174</span>#174 ||style="text-align:center;"|15.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|11.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|56.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|200.7

|-

| Business Products & Supplies || Canon || Tokyo ||<span style="display:none">0254</span>#254 ||style="text-align:center;"|31.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|36.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|40.4

|-

| Casinos & Gaming || Las Vegas Sands || Paradise, Nevada|Paradise ||<span style="display:none">0432</span>#301 ||style="text-align:center;"|11.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|21.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|37.2

|-

| Communications Equipment || Cisco Systems || San Jose, California|San Jose ||<span style="display:none">0063</span>#63 ||style="text-align:center;"|49.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|10.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|112.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|141.7

|-

| Computer & Electronics Retail || Best Buy || Richfield, Minnesota|Richfield ||<span style="display:none">0637</span>#637 ||style="text-align:center;"|39.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|13.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|10.7

|-

| Computer Hardware || Apple Inc.|| Cupertino ||<span style="display:none">0008</span>#8 ||style="text-align:center;"|233.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|53.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|293.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|586.0

|-

| Computer Services || Alphabet || Mountain View, California|Mountain View ||<span style="display:none">0027</span>#27 ||style="text-align:center;"|77.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|17.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|149.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|500.1

|-

| Computer Storage Devices || EMC || Hopkinton, Massachusetts|Hopkinton ||<span style="display:none">0231</span>#231 ||style="text-align:center;"|24.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|45.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|51.9

|-

| Conglomerates || Siemens || Munich ||<span style="display:none">0051</span>#51 ||style="text-align:center;"|85.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|6.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|133.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|91.8

|-

| Construction Materials || Saint-Gobain || Courbevoie ||<span style="display:none">0256</span>#256 ||style="text-align:center;"|43.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|48.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|25.6

|-

| Construction Services || China State Construction Engineering || Beijing ||<span style="display:none">0114</span>#114 ||style="text-align:center;"|135.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|165.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|25.6

|-

| Consumer Electronics || Sony || Tokyo ||<span style="display:none">0192</span>#192 ||style="text-align:center;"|67.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|142.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|34.1

|-

| Consumer Financial Services || American Express || New York City ||<span style="display:none">0095</span>#95 ||style="text-align:center;"|34.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|5.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|159.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|63.2

|-

| Containers & Packaging || Amcor || Hawthorn, Victoria|Hawthorn ||<span style="display:none">0966</span>#966 ||style="text-align:center;"|9.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|8.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|13.6

|-

| Department Stores || Macy's || New York City ||<span style="display:none">0515</span>#515 ||style="text-align:center;"|27.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|20.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|12.8

|-

| Discount Stores || Wal-Mart Stores || Bentonville, Arkansas|Bentonville ||<span style="display:none">0015</span>#15 ||style="text-align:center;"|482.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|14.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|199.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|215.7

|-

| Diversified Chemicals || BASF || Ludwigshafen ||<span style="display:none">0094</span>#94 ||style="text-align:center;"|78.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|80.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|73.2

|-

| Diversified Insurance || Ping An Insurance || Shenzhen ||<span style="display:none">0020</span>#20 ||style="text-align:center;"|98.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|8.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|732.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|90.0

|-

| Diversified Metals & Mining || China Shenhua Energy || Beijing ||<span style="display:none">0167</span>#167 ||style="text-align:center;"|27.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|85.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|43.1

|-

| Diversified Utilities || Veolia Environnement || Paris ||<span style="display:none">0526</span>#526 ||style="text-align:center;"|27.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|39.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|13.3

|-

| Drug Retail || CVS Health || Woonsocket, Rhode Island|Woonsocket ||<span style="display:none">0062</span>#62 ||style="text-align:center;"|153.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|5.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|93.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|110.8

|-

| Electric Utilities || Korea Electric Power || Seoul ||<span style="display:none">0097</span>#97 ||style="text-align:center;"|52.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|11.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|149.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|33.1

|-

| Electrical Equipment || Schneider Electric || Rueil-Malmaison ||<span style="display:none">0248</span>#117 ||style="text-align:center;"|29.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|46.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|39.3

|-

| Electronics || Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn) || New Taipei City ||<span style="display:none">0117</span>#117 ||style="text-align:center;"|141.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|70.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|39.2

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| Environmental & Waste || Waste Management || Houston ||<span style="display:none">0549</span>#549 ||style="text-align:center;"|13.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|20.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|25.1

|-

| Food Processing || Nestlé || Vevey ||<span style="display:none">0033</span>#33 ||style="text-align:center;"|92.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|9.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|123.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|235.7

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| Food Retail || Kroger || Cincinnati ||<span style="display:none">0223</span>#223 ||style="text-align:center;"|109.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|34.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|34.2

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| Forest Products || Empresas CMPC || Santiago ||<span style="display:none">1943</span>#1943 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|14.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|5.4

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| Furniture & Fixtures || Steinhoff International || Stellenbosch ||<span style="display:none">0440</span>#440 ||style="text-align:center;"|13.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|25.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|22.8

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| Healthcare Services || Express Scripts || St. Louis ||<span style="display:none">0145</span>#145 ||style="text-align:center;"|101.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|54.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|46.5

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| Heavy Equipment || Caterpillar || Peoria, Illinois|Peoria ||<span style="display:none">0155</span>#155 ||style="text-align:center;"|47.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|78.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|45.6

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| Home Improvement Retail || Home Depot || Atlanta ||<span style="display:none">0112</span>#112 ||style="text-align:center;"|88.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|7.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|42.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|169.8

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| Hotels/Motels || Carnival || Miami ||<span style="display:none">0311</span>#311 ||style="text-align:center;"|15.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|38.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|37.8

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| Household Appliances || Midea Group || Foshan ||<span style="display:none">0402</span>#402 ||style="text-align:center;"|22.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|19.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|20.2

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| Household/Personal Care || Procter & Gamble || Cincinnati ||<span style="display:none">0039</span>#39 ||style="text-align:center;"|69.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|8.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|129.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|218.9

|-

| Insurance Brokers || Aon || London||<span style="display:none">0420</span>#420 ||style="text-align:center;"|11.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|27.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|27.9

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| Internet & Catalog Retail || |Amazon || Seattle ||<span style="display:none">0237</span>#237 ||style="text-align:center;"|107.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|67.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|292.6

|-

| Investment Services || Berkshire Hathaway || Omaha ||<span style="display:none">0004</span>#4 ||style="text-align:center;"|210.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|24.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|561.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|360.1

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| Iron & Steel || Citic Pacific || Hong Kong ||<span style="display:none">0061</span>#61 ||style="text-align:center;"|53.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|5.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|877.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|45.4

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| Life & Health Insurance || Japan Post Holdings || Tokyo ||<span style="display:none">0029</span>#29 ||style="text-align:center;"|129.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|2,450.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|62.6

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| Major Banks || Industrial and Commercial Bank of China || Beijing ||<span style="display:none">0001</span>#1 ||style="text-align:center;"|171.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|44.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|3,420.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|198.0

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| Managed Health Care || UnitedHealth Group || Minnetonka, Minnesota|Minnetonka ||<span style="display:none">0041</span>#41 ||style="text-align:center;"|165.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|6.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|117.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|127.5

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| Medical Equipment & Supplies || Johnson & Johnson || New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick ||<span style="display:none">0032</span>#32 ||style="text-align:center;"|70.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|15.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|133.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|312.6

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| Natural Gas Utilities || Gas Natural Fenosa || Barcelona ||<span style="display:none">0287</span>#287 ||style="text-align:center;"|28.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|52.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|20.6

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| Oil & Gas Operations || ExxonMobil || Irving ||<span style="display:none">0009</span>#9 ||style="text-align:center;"|236.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|16.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|336.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|363.3

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| Oil Services & Equipment || Schlumberger || Houston ||<span style="display:none">0176</span>#176 ||style="text-align:center;"|31.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|69.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|111.1

|-

| Other Industrial Equipment || Eaton ||Dublin||<span style="display:none">0315</span>#315 ||style="text-align:center;"|20.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|31.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|28.9

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| Other Transportation || Møller-Maersk || Copenhagen ||<span style="display:none">0306</span>#306 ||style="text-align:center;"|40.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|64.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|30.7

|-

| Paper & Paper Products || International Paper || Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis ||<span style="display:none">0426</span>#426 ||style="text-align:center;"|22.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|30.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|17.8

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| Pharmaceuticals || Pfizer || New York City ||<span style="display:none">0046</span>#46 ||style="text-align:center;"|48.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|7.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|167.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|205.7

|-

| Precision Healthcare Equipment || Thermo Fisher Scientific || Waltham, Massachusetts|Waltham ||<span style="display:none">0267</span>#267 ||style="text-align:center;"|17.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|40.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|57.8

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| Printing & Publishing || Thomson Reuters || New York City ||<span style="display:none">0405</span>#405 ||style="text-align:center;"|12.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|29.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|30.9

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| Property & Casualty Insurance || Travelers || New York City ||<span style="display:none">0165</span>#165 ||style="text-align:center;"|26.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|3.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|102.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|32.4

|-

| Railroads || Union Pacific || Omaha ||<span style="display:none">0172</span>#172 ||style="text-align:center;"|21.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|55.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|75.4

|-

| Real Estate || Vanke || Shenzhen ||<span style="display:none">0185</span>#185 ||style="text-align:center;"|31.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|94.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|27.7

|-

| Recreational Products || Activision Blizzard || Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica ||<span style="display:none">0842</span>#842 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|15.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|25.5

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| Regional Banks || China Construction Bank || Beijing ||<span style="display:none">0002</span>#2 ||style="text-align:center;"|146.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|36.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|2,826.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|162.8

|-

| Rental & Leasing || Mitsubishi UFJ Lease || Tokyo ||<span style="display:none">1075</span>#1075 ||style="text-align:center;"|6.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|42.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.2

|-

| Restaurants || McDonald's || Oak Brook, Illinois|Oak Brook ||<span style="display:none">0189</span>#189 ||style="text-align:center;"|25.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|4.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|37.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|110.1

|-

| Security Systems || Secom || Tokyo ||<span style="display:none">0854</span>#854 ||style="text-align:center;"|7.1 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|13.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|18.1

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| Semiconductors || Samsung Electronics || Seoul ||<span style="display:none">0018</span>#18 ||style="text-align:center;"|177.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|16.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|206.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|161.6

|-

| Software & Programming || Microsoft || Redmond, Washington|Redmond ||<span style="display:none">0023</span>#23 ||style="text-align:center;"|86.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|10.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|181.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|407.0

|-

| Specialized Chemicals || Air Liquide || Paris ||<span style="display:none">0313</span>#313 ||style="text-align:center;"|18.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.9 ||style="text-align:center;"|31.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|40.5

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| Specialty Stores || Richemont || Bellevue, Switzerland|Bellevue ||<span style="display:none">0416</span>#416 ||style="text-align:center;"|12.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|21.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|37.6

|-

| Telecommunications services || AT&T || Dallas ||<span style="display:none">0012</span>#12 ||style="text-align:center;"|146.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|13.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|402.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|234.2

|-

| Thrifts & Mortgage Financing || Aareal Bank || Wiesbaden ||<span style="display:none">1381</span>#1381 ||style="text-align:center;"|1.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.4 ||style="text-align:center;"|57.2 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.1

|-

| Tobacco || British American Tobacco || London ||<span style="display:none">0177</span>#177 ||style="text-align:center;"|20.0 ||style="text-align:center;"|6.6 ||style="text-align:center;"|46.5 ||style="text-align:center;"|111.0

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| Trading Companies || Mitsubishi Corp || Tokyo ||<span style="display:none">0136</span>#136 ||style="text-align:center;"|59.8 ||style="text-align:center;"|2.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|135.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|27.7

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| Trucking || Yamato Holdings || Tokyo ||<span style="display:none">1306</span>#1306 ||style="text-align:center;"|11.7 ||style="text-align:center;"|0.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|9.3 ||style="text-align:center;"|8.6

|}

2017 list

In 2017, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|- style="background-color:#efefef;"

|+ 2017 top ten

! Rank !! Company !! Headquarters !! Industry !! Sales <br /> (billion $) !! Profits <br /> (billion $) !! Assets <br /> (billion $) !! Market value <br /> (billion $)

|-

| 1 ||Industrial and Commercial Bank of China|| Beijing || Banking, financial services ||151.4||42.0||3473.2||229.8

|-

| 2 ||China Construction Bank|| Beijing || Banking, financial services ||134.2||35.0||3016.6||200.5

|-

| 3 ||Berkshire Hathaway|| Omaha || Conglomerate||222.9||24.1||620.9||409.9

|-

| 4 ||JPMorgan Chase|| New York City || Banking, financial services ||102.5||24.2||2513.0||306.6

|-

| 5 ||Wells Fargo|| San Francisco || Banking, financial services ||97.6||21.9||1943.4||274.4

|-

| 6 ||Citigroup|| New York City || Banking, financial services ||115.7||27.8||2816.0||149.2

|-

| 7 ||Bank of America|| Charlotte || Banking, financial services ||92.2||16.6||2196.8||231.9

|-

| 8 ||Bank of China|| Beijing || Banking, financial services ||113.1||24.9||2611.5||141.3

|-

| 9 ||Apple Inc.|| Cupertino || Consumer Electronics, Software, Services ||217.5||45.2||331.1||752.0

|-

|10 ||Toyota Motor|| Toyota || Automotive ||249.9||17.1||412.5||171.9

|}

2016 list

In 2016, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:

{|class="wikitable sortable"

|-style="background-color:#efefef;"

|+ 2016 top ten

! Rank !! Company !! Headquarters !! Industry !! Sales <br /> (billion $) !! Profits <br /> (billion $) !! Assets <br /> (billion $) !! Market value <br /> (billion $)

|-

| 1 || Industrial and Commercial Bank of China || Beijing || Banking, financial services || 171.1 || 44.2 || 3,420.2 || 198

|-

| 2 || China Construction Bank || Beijing || Banking, financial services || 146.8 || 36.4 || 2,826 || 162.8

|-

| 3 || Citigroup || New York City|| Banking, financial services|| 131.9 || 28.8 || 2,739.8 || 152.7

|-

| 4 || Berkshire Hathaway || Omaha || Conglomerate || 210.8 || 24.1 || 561.1 || 360.1

|-

| 5 || JPMorgan Chase || New York City || Banking, financial services || 99.9 || 23.5 || 2,423.8 || 234.2

|-

| 6 || Bank of China || Beijing || Banking, financial services || 122 || 27.2 || 2,589.6 || 143

|-

| 7 || Wells Fargo || San Francisco || Banking, financial services || 91.4 || 22.7 || 1,849.2 || 256

|-

| 8 || Apple Inc. || Cupertino || Consumer Electronics, Software, Services || 233.3 || 53.7 || 293.3 || 586

|-

| 9 || ExxonMobil || Irving || Oil and gas || 236.8 || 16.2 || 336.8 || 363.3

|-

|10 || Toyota Motor || Toyota || Automotive || 235.8 || 19.3 || 406.7 || 177

|}

See also

  • Forbes 500
  • Fortune Global 500
  • Fortune India 500
  • Financial Times Global 500
  • Bentley Infrastructure 500
  • List of largest employers
  • List of largest companies by revenue
  • List of public corporations by market capitalization
  • List of largest Nordic companies

References

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  • Forbes.com: full list of the Forbes Global 2000