With a market capitalization of 3.12 trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2024, Microsoft was the world’s largest company that year. Rounding out the top five were some of the world’s most recognizable brands: Apple, NVIDIA, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Amazon. Saudi Aramco led the ranking of the world's most profitable companies in 2023, with a pre-tax income of nearly 250 billion U.S. dollars. How are market value and market capitalization determined? Market value and market capitalization are two terms frequently used – and confused - when discussing the profitability and viability of companies. Strictly speaking, market capitalization (or market cap) is the worth of a company based on the total value of all their shares; an important metric when determining the comparative value of companies for trading opportunities. Accordingly, many stock exchanges such as the New York or London Stock Exchange release market capitalization data on their listed companies. On the other hand, market value technically refers to what a company is worth in a much broader context. It is determined by multiple factors, including profitability, corporate debt, and the market environment as a whole. In this sense it aims to estimate the overall value of a company, with share price only being one element. Market value is therefore useful for determining whether a company’s shares are over- or undervalued, and in arriving at a price if the company is to be sold. Such valuations are generally made on a case-by-case basis though, and not regularly reported. For this reason, market capitalization is often reported as market value. What are the top companies in the world? The answer to this question depends on the metric used. Although the largest company by market capitalization, Microsoft's global revenue did not manage to crack the top 20 companies. Rather, American multinational retailer Walmart was ranked as the largest company in the world by revenue. Walmart also had the highest number of employees in the world.

In 2023, the leading market research company in terms of global research revenue was Gartner, generating approximately *** billion U.S. dollars. In the same year, American company IQVIA accrued roughly *** billion U.S. dollars. Market research companies - global players Market research is an important business strategy involving the gathering of information about an organization’s target market. In terms of global research revenue, American company Gartner was the leading market research company worldwide. Headquartered in the United States, the number of employees working for the company totaled ****** people in 2023. The sixth largest market research company in terms of global research revenue was Kantar. Kantar Group is a UK-based international network of ** companies, including Millward Brown and IMRB International. In 2022, the research revenue of Kantar amounted to approximately ***** billion U.S. dollars. Another European leader, and ranked seventh in the global ranking, was Ipsos. The company had a research revenue of over *** billion U.S. dollars. The largest share of market research revenue made by Ipsos was generated in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2023. United States dominant in a global market The global revenue of the market research industry reached over ** billion U.S. dollars in 2023, over half of which came from the United States. The number of full-time employees working for the top ten market research companies in the United States totaled almost ****** in 2020.

In 2021, Gartner was the leading company in the market research and data analytics sector in the United States. Roughly ** million U.S. dollars separated the top two companies, as Nielsen generated a revenue of approximately *** billion U.S. dollars compared to the **** billion U.S. dollars generated by Gartner.

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According to the most recently available data, the leading news company in the world was News Corp., with a market cap of 7.9 billion U.S. dollars. Some of News Corp.'s most famous brands include The Sun, HarperCollins Publishers, and Fox News. Ranked second was The New York Times Company with a market cap of 6.8 billion U.S. dollars.

As of September 11, 2024, the largest company in Singapore is the DBS Group, with a market capitalization of ***** billion Singapore dollars. The largest three companies in Singapore by market capitalization were two of its largest banks, followed by consumer internet company Sea Limited. DBS, OCBC, and UOB - stalwarts of Singapore’s financial sector Singapore’s three largest banking groups – DBS Group, OCBC, and UOB, are seen as stable stock market investments. They routinely make up the top three leading companies by market capitalization and rank consistently among the most valuable brands in Singapore. Despite the global economic turmoil, these three banks were forecast to turn profits in 2023, being among the biggest beneficiaries of rising interest rates in the Asia-Pacific region. Singapore is a leading financial hub in the Asia-Pacific region, and its financial sector makes up the third-largest sector of its economy. Sea Limited and Grab - volatility of tech companies in the stock market Among the largest companies in Singapore are two of its biggest tech companies, Sea Limited and Grab Holdings. Sea Limited operates the e-commerce marketplace Shopee and online gaming company Garena, while Grab Holdings is a super-app that provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and digital payment services. Despite the popularity of their services, both companies have faced a turbulent year, with Grab Holdings seeing their share prices drop during the first day of trading. Once valued more than DBS, OCBC, and UOB combined, Sea Limited saw its valuation drop in 2022 amidst net losses of around *** billion U.S. dollars in 2021.

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1. InData Labs

• Headquarters: Nicosia, Cyprus
• Founder: Marat Karpeko
• Established: 2014

InData Labs is a leading AI company specializing in LLM development, big data analytics, and AI-powered solutions. Marat Karpeko, a visionary with a background in data science and gaming analytics, founded it. Over the years, InData Labs has built a strong reputation for providing AI-driven solutions in the marketing, e-commerce, healthcare, and finance industries.

The company employs over 80 AI experts, engineers, and data scientists who work on various AI solutions, including natural language processing (NLP), predictive analytics, and machine learning models. InData Labs also partners with Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling scalable cloud-based AI solutions.

What sets InData Labs apart is its custom AI solutions, allowing businesses to integrate LLMs into their workflows for personalized automation. With a growing client base worldwide, it continues to be a major player in the LLM development industry.

In 2020, Nielsen was the leading market research and data analytics company in the United States in terms of revenue. Nielsen generated nearly 3.7 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in the United States, while abroad it generated over 2.6 billion U.S. dollars. Second in the ranking was IQVIA, whose revenues reached 4.35 billion euros dollars worldwide.

In 2024, Netflix was the second-largest media company ranked by market capitalization - at ***** billion U.S. dollars. At the same time, Apple outperformed the top media companies by a large margin, with a market cap of over *** trillion U.S. dollars that year. Disney closed the top three with *** billion U.S. dollars in market capitalization.

As of May 23, 2025, Microsoft was the leading tech company by market capitalization globally at 3.38 trillion U.S. dollars. Nvidia ranked second at 3.24 trillion U.S. dollars. Tech company stocks were impacted through 2025 as a result of various global tariff threats by the United States government. Apple among the leaders Since its foundation in a Californian garage in 1976, Apple has expanded massively, becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world. The company started its origins in the PC industry with the Macintosh, but soon entered other segments of the consumer electronics market. Today, the iPhone is the most popular Apple product, although Mac, iPad, wearables, and services also contribute to its high revenues. Aiming at innovation, Apple invests every year in research and development, spanning a wide array of technologies from AI through to extended reality. Nvidia's immense growth With a focus that began with origins in gaming, Nvidia's business strategy has been transformed by demand from data centers that sit at the heart of the AI boom. The company's chips have been favored to support in the training and running of a range of large language models, most notably in the development of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

When looking at the leading food and drink service chains by market value, as ranked by Forbes in its 2024 "Global 2000" list of the largest companies worldwide, McDonald's came out on top. The fast food chain accounted for a market value of approximately 196.3 billion U.S. dollars that year. Meanwhile, second in the ranking was Chipotle Mexican Grill, with a market value of 88.26 billion U.S. dollars.

According to a study executed in late 2021, content development was the leading business-to-business marketing strategy for 2022, as 44 percent of responding B2B companies placed it among their top three marketing areas to invest in over the following year. Mentioned by 30 percent and 29 percent of companies respectively, website/SEO marketing and digital media advertising followed in second and third position. In contrast, four percent of respondents planned to make traditional media advertising one of their main investments.

Amazon is the biggest consumer internet and online service company worldwide with a market cap of approximately 1.34 trillion U.S. dollars as of June 2023. Amazon was ranked first among selected online companies operating in the retail, real estate, mobility, travel and hospitality sectors. The digital commerce platform Alibaba.com ranked second with a market cap of 214 billion U.S. dollars.

In 2022, ******** had the highest market share among the considered leading companies in the human resources services industry worldwide. In that year, Randstad held **** percent of the HR services industry. The total HR services market was worth *** billion euros in 2022.

As of May 2025, Amazon was the biggest internet company worldwide with a market cap of over ************ U.S. dollars Second-ranked Alphabet had a market capitalization of **** trillion U.S. dollars. The end of the 1990s in the United States saw the rise of a great number of internet companies, also called online companies or a variety of the name “dot com,” where the “.com” domain is derived from the word commercial. At the time, such startups were merely riding the wave of early internet business, but had little capital and perhaps one good idea. Few companies have survived the burst of the dot com bubble and even fewer have managed to become internationally successful. A few notable exceptions are American companies such as Google (founded in 1998), Amazon (founded in 1994) or eBay Inc. (founded in 1995), and the Chinese online giant Alibaba (founded in 1998), which have come to be some of the largest internet companies in the world. One of the largest internet companies worldwide is currently Alphabet, the parent company of Google, with a market capitalization of **** trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2025. Having started as a PhD project at Stanford University, the Google project slowly gained traction and is now the number one search engine in the world, with a market share of ** percent on the search engine market. Due to a number of high profile acquisitions, Google has expanded its portfolio beyond search, to include the video content sharing site YouTube, the digital app platform Google Play Store, the webmail service Gmail and the web browser Google Chrome, to only name a few. In October 2015, Google reorganized itself into a newly created parent company, the multinational conglomerate Alphabet Inc. The biggest internet companies in terms of their workforce are currently Amazon, Alphabet and Meta.

************ was the leading domestic company in Japan based on market capitalization, which amounted to around **** trillion Japanese yen in June 2025. ****************************** ranked second with a market capitalization of about **** trillion yen. With an aggregate market capitalization of over *** trillion yen in 2024, the Tokyo Stock Exchange is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world.

As of December 31, 2024, lululemon's market capitalization exceeded **** billion U.S. dollars, making it the active apparel company with the highest market cap, followed by Kering. In third place was V.F. Corporation, with a market cap of just over eight billion dollars.

In 2022, media and broadcasting was the client sector with the highest share of research sales in the United States with almost 30 percent of the total share. Pharmaceutical was second in the last, with 13 percent of the share.