What are the largest companies in the world?

Here, most people think of the well-known tech giants, such as Apple $AAPL (+2,87 %) or Microsoft $MSFT. (+1,09 %)

However, companies can be valued not only by their market capitalization, but also by other factors.

Forbes, for example, ranks companies (equally weighted) according to the following criteria:

• Market capitalization
• Total value of all assets
• Profit
• Revenue

Suddenly you get a completely different picture than via the ranking according to pure market capitalization and you don't find a single(!) tech company among the top 5:

• Industrial & Commercial Bank China
• JP Morgan Chase
• Berkshire Hathaway
• China Construction Bank
• Saudi Aramco

Here you can see again what power and weight e.g. a JP Morgan has in the global economy.

Do you primarily only look at market capitalization or do such rankings also play a role for you?

And does this make you look differently at companies/shares of e.g. JP Morgan or Berkshire Hathaway?

Source: https://www.forbes.at/artikel/2021-global-2000.html

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