The world’s most valuable companies by market value continue to come from the United States – with Apple leading the way. As an evaluation has shown, two German companies are among the top 100.
The list of corporations with the world’s highest stock market value continues to be headed by US technology groups. This was the result of a current study by the consulting company EY with a deadline of the end of June tageschau.de present.
Apple valued at $3 trillion
At the top of the 100 most valuable listed companies in the world is Apple with a market capitalization of just over three trillion dollars. Microsoft follows in second place with around 2.5 trillion dollars. Then comes the Saudi oil multinational Saudi Aramco. which brings it to a market value of $2.1 trillion.
The rest of the “top ten” by market value is made up exclusively of US companies – mostly from the tech sector. In order of placement, these are the Google parent company Alphabet, the online retailer Amazon, the chip company Nvidia, the electric car manufacturer Tesla, the holding company of the US billionaire Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, the Facebook parent company Meta and the credit card company Visa .
LVMH most valuable European company
European companies do not currently make the global top 10. And of the 100 most valuable companies, only 19 are headquartered in Europe – 16 are from Asia. The most valuable European company is currently the French luxury group LVMH in 12th place.
The top 100 is also dominated by US-based companies, accounting for 62 of them. China and Hong Kong follow with ten companies, France with six, Great Britain with five and Switzerland with three groups.
“The current AI boom shows it very clearly: Once again, it is primarily US companies that are benefiting from a new megatrend on the stock exchanges and are gaining in importance,” says Henrik Ahlers, CEO of EY in Germany Trend to expand artificial intelligence (AI) into a billion-dollar business.
In total, the stock market value of the top 100 companies rose by 20 percent or $5.8 trillion to currently around $34.4 trillion.
SAP and Siemens back in the top 100
Two German corporations are among the top 100 most valuable companies. The German software group SAP came in 71st place with a market value of $159 billion (end of 2022: 106th place), Siemens climbed from 115th to 91st place with a good $132 billion.
In addition, there is the industrial gases group Linde, which has had its headquarters in Ireland since the merger with Praxair. He finished 57th. At the end of last year, Germany wasn’t even in the top 100.