After the strong increases last year, five companies are placed above billion dollars (English Trillion) and one of them, the gigantic technological Apple is above 2 billion dollars.Figure similar to GDP of Italy.
We can see below, the 2021 list with the 100 companies that are most worth the world from highest to lowest.To do this, we use its stock market capitalization, that is, what it would cost to buy the company today.
As we said, Apple, the technological one that changed the world, is first position with a value of more than two billion dollars.It has benefited, together with the rest of the technology, of strong liquidity injections worldwide to get out of the pandemic.Its price is already higher than Italian GDP.So many wonder, where is the limit?
In second position is the Saudi oil company, Aramco, with a value of 1.8 billion dollars.Followed closely by the other three technological ones that have increased their value vertiginously in the last 12 months, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet (owner of Google).
It is already common for large technological ones leading the table, leaving behind banks or energy as formerly.There are already eight of the first 10 positions that are occupied by technological ones: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Facebook, Tesla, Alibaba and Tencent.The other two are an oil company (Aramco) and the famous investment fund of genius Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway).
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This year it is worth highlighting the vertiginous climb of Tesla, which last year was in position 65 and this year is placed in number eight, going up nothing less than 57 positions, by multiplying its value by four in just one year.
The largest companies in the world by countries
If we analyze the list by countries, the United States remains clearly the first world power in terms of the number of large companies, with 57 companies in the list of the 100 largest companies in the world.On the other hand, China already has 14 companies.While the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands are tied thirdly with three companies each.
This year no Spanish or Latin American company appears in the list.However, the Inditex textile giant would find it if we made the list a little longer, since it is in 138 position, with a stock market value of 102.45 billion dollars.
Here are the largest companies in the world, for their stock market capitalization on March 1, 2021, in billions of dollars:
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