World's Largest Companies 2014 - Forbes

[Chinese-Dragon]

Here is a list of the World's Largest Companies in 2014, according to Forbes:


The World’s Biggest Public Companies List - Forbes


1
ICBC China $148.7 B $42.7 B $3,124.9 B $215.6 B
2
China Construction Bank China $121.3 B $34.2 B $2,449.5 B $174.4 B
3
Agricultural Bank of China China $136.4 B $27 B $2,405.4 B $141.1 B
4
JPMorgan Chase United States $105.7 B $17.3 B $2,435.3 B $229.7 B
5
Berkshire Hathaway United States $178.8 B $19.5 B $493.4 B $309.1 B
6
Exxon Mobil United States $394 B $32.6 B $346.8 B $422.3 B
7
General Electric United States $143.3 B $14.8 B $656.6 B $259.6 B
8
Wells Fargo United States $88.7 B $21.9 B $1,543 B $261.4 B
9
Bank of China China $105.1 B $25.5 B $2,291.8 B $124.2 B
10
PetroChina China $328.5 B $21.1 B $386.9 B $202 B
11
Royal Dutch Shell Netherlands $451.4 B $16.4 B $357.5 B $234.1 B
12
Toyota Motor Japan $255.6 B $18.8 B $385.5 B $193.5 B
13
Bank of America United States $101.5 B $11.4 B $2,113.8 B $183.3 B
14
HSBC Holdings United Kingdom $79.6 B $16.3 B $2,671.3 B $192.6 B
15
Apple United States $173.8 B $37 B $225.2 B $483.1 B
16
Citigroup United States $94.1 B $13.4 B $1,883.4 B $145.1 B
17
BP United Kingdom $379.2 B $23.6 B $305.7 B $148.8 B
18
Chevron United States $211.8 B $21.4 B $253.8 B $227.2 B
19
Volkswagen Group Germany $261.5 B $12 B $446.9 B $119 B
20
Wal-Mart Stores United States $476.5 B $16 B $204.8 B $247.9 B
21
Gazprom Russia $164.6 B $39 B $397.2 B $88.8 B
22
Samsung Electronics South Korea $208.9 B $27.2 B $202.8 B $186.5 B
23
AT&T United States $128.8 B $18.2 B $277.8 B $182.7 B
24
BNP Paribas France $123.2 B $6.4 B $2,480.5 B $98.6 B
25
Total France $227.9 B $11.2 B $239.1 B $149.8 B
26
Verizon Communications United States $120.6 B $11.5 B $274.1 B $197.7 B
27
Allianz Germany $131.4 B $8 B $963.1 B $77.2 B
28
China Mobile Hong Kong $102.5 B $19.8 B $192.8 B $184.6 B
29
Sinopec-China Petroleum China $445.3 B $10.9 B $228.4 B $94.7 B
30
Petrobras Brazil $141.2 B $10.9 B $319.2 B $86.8 B
31
Daimler Germany $156.6 B $9.1 B $232.2 B $102.9 B
32
Microsoft United States $83.3 B $22.8 B $153.5 B $343.8 B
33
AXA Group France $138.9 B $6 B $1,018.9 B $63.4 B
34
Rosneft Russia $142.6 B $12.8 B $229.4 B $70 B
35
IBM United States $99.8 B $16.5 B $126.2 B $202.5 B
36
Nestle Switzerland $99.4 B $10.8 B $135.4 B $239.6 B
37
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Japan $48.6 B $11.3 B $2,458.9 B $77.7 B
38
Vodafone United Kingdom $65.1 B $31.8 B $235.6 B $96.9 B
39
Eni Italy $152.7 B $6.9 B $186.6 B $90.9 B
40
Procter & Gamble United States $84.7 B $10.9 B $142.9 B $217.8 B
41
Johnson & Johnson United States $71.3 B $13.8 B $132.7 B $277 B
42
American International Group United States $68.1 B $9.1 B $540.7 B $73.2 B
43
Banco Santander Spain $52.5 B $5.8 B $1,537.3 B $112.3 B
44
BHP Billiton Australia $67.7 B $14.8 B $151 B $182.3 B
45
Pfizer United States $52.7 B $22 B $172.1 B $203.9 B
46
Itaú Unibanco Holding Brazil $67.2 B $7.6 B $435.4 B $74.9 B
47
Ford Motor United States $146.9 B $7.2 B $202 B $64.5 B
48
BMW Group Germany $101 B $7.1 B $190.7 B $83.4 B
49
Commonwealth Bank Australia $41.5 B $7.9 B $699.9 B $114.5 B
50
EDF France $100.4 B $4.5 B $353.9 B $75.8 B

 

[itaskol]

can someone tell how can chinese banks growing so fast. and every chinese bank grows so fast.
and more profitable than banks from other countries.

no 1. ICBC Sales 148.7B Profit 42.7B
no 13. Bank of america Sales 101.5B Profit 11.4B

 

[Raphael]

How is the ranking done? It doesn't seem like the list follows any one metric, like sales/profit/assets/market value.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

How is the ranking done? It doesn't seem like the list follows any one metric, like sales/profit/assets/market value.

They use a composite score based on all four metrics, with all of them weighted equally.

Forbes explains their methodology here:

Global 2000: How We Crunch the Numbers - Forbes

We add up all the scores for all four metrics (equally weighted) and compile a composite score for each company based on their rankings for sales, profits, assets and market value. We sort the companies in descending order by the highest composite score and then apply our Forbes Global 2000 rank. The highest composite score gets the highest rank.

 

[American Pakistani]

wow Top 3 are Chinese.

Good to see a lot of American companies in Top 10.

Wish any Pakistani company would've made it.

 

[ephone]

For those banks, especially Chinese banks ranking so high, I do not think that is really that good a news.

 

[Raphael]

wow Top 3 are Chinese.

Good to see a lot of American companies in Top 10.

Wish any Pakistani company would've made it.

Honestly, it's not so hard to get big banking and petroleum companies on the ranking, especially for a centralized state like China. Instead, the goals should be to get tech/manufacturing companies up there like General Electric/Apple/Volkswagon - these are the real achievements.

 

[cirr]

China needs to have more state-owned companies listed as a whole。

AVIC，for example，has close to 20 listed subsidaries。

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

wow Top 3 are Chinese.

Good to see a lot of American companies in Top 10.

Wish any Pakistani company would've made it.

In fact, out of the top 10 largest companies, half are Chinese and half are American.

And we are only at the very beginning of our economic rise. In 10-20 years I want to see us dominating the whole top 10.

 

[American Pakistani]

And we are only at the very beginning of our economic rise. In 10-20 years I want to see us dominating the whole top 10.

Inshallah. Best of Luck to Chinese brothers & friends.

In fact, out of the top 10 largest companies, half are Chinese and half are American.

And we are only at the very beginning of our economic rise. In 10-20 years I want to see us dominating the whole top 10.

I would love to see Pakistan, China & USA improve their relations & come close to each other.

 

[JayAtl]

when you have the govt having near 70% of shares in a company, it will be so called " no 1 biggest company in the world"

the chinese govt owns 70% of the no 1 on that list

 

[tranquilium]

For those banks, especially Chinese banks ranking so high, I do not think that is really that good a news.

Nah, that's natural. One of the characteristics of bank is that they must be of sufficient scales that they can form an effective network in large areas, understandably they will be quite large. Plus, they are state owned so following state policy takes precedence over corporate profits.