Saudi Aramco came on top of the most valuable companies in terms of market value in the world, to be the largest listed company globally, with a market value exceeding 1702 billion euros, ahead of the American company, Apple, for phone and computer technology, which ranked second with a market value of 1119 billion euro.
Microsoft, which specializes in operating software such as Windors and Office, came in third in the list of the largest companies in the world in terms of market value, with 1068 billion euros.
As for “Alphabet”, it came in fourth place. Alphabet is the parent company of the search engine, “Google”, “YouTube”, the “Chrome” browser, the operating system for Android phones and e-mail “Gmail”. Alphabet has a market value of 841 billion euros, ahead of Amazon, the e-commerce and cloud computing website, which recorded a market value of 799 billion euros. Amazon remains the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market value.
The sixth place went to the “Facebook” social networking company, which has a market value of 529 billion euros. In seventh place is Alibaba Holdings Ltd., a diversified online e-commerce company headquartered in China. Its market value reached 507 billion euros. And in eighth place came the Berkshire Hathaway Holding Group, which manages several subsidiary companies and has a market value of 495 billion euros.
The Chinese company “Tencent” came in ninth place, which is the largest company in the world in the electronic games market for smartphones and mobile devices. Tencent has a market value of 414 billion euros. GB Morgan Chase ranked tenth, with a market value of nearly 387 billion euros. GB Morgan Chase, a US multinational financial services bank, is the largest in the United States.