In 2024, the**************************************o posted the highest revenue of any company in the world before taxes, with an income of over *** billion U.S. dollars. ************************************************** rounded out the top five spots in the ranking of most profitable companies. What is net income? Net income, or net profit, which differs slightly from pre-tax income, is the figure that gives the most complete overview of a company’s profitability: It is calculated as the revenue of a company less all operating expenses, debt payments, interest paid, income from subsidiary holdings, taxes, etc. Different industries have different net profit margins. The Apple doesn’t fall far In terms of market value, Microsoft was the largest company in the world in 2024, with Apple following in second. Since the beginning of the new millennium, Apple has reported ever rising amounts of worldwide revenue, with iPhone sales leading the charge.

With over *** billion U.S. dollars in revenue, Walmart topped the ranking of the hundred largest companies globally, followed by Amazon. Walmart was also the largest company in the world based on its number of employees, with some *** million all over the world. Largest corporations based on revenue - additional information The concept of revenue itself might slightly differ depending on country or even from one company to another. It usually refers to the income resulted from normal business activities, such as the sale of goods and services to customers. Walmart The American-based multinational corporation Walmart was founded in 1962 and currently operates over ****** stores worldwide, out of which ***** are in the United States alone. In 2024, Walmart was ranked the third most valuable retail brand in the world, with a brand value of about ** billion U.S. dollars. Follow this link to get access to the top 500 companies from all industries list.

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 the most recently reported fiscal year, Google's revenue amounted to 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Google's revenue is largely made up by advertising revenue, which amounted to 264.59 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. As of October 2024, parent company Alphabet ranked first among worldwide internet companies, with a market capitalization of 2,02 billion U.S. dollars. Google’s revenue Founded in 1998, Google is a multinational internet service corporation headquartered in California, United States. Initially conceptualized as a web search engine based on a PageRank algorithm, Google now offers a multitude of desktop, mobile and online products. Google Search remains the company’s core web-based product along with advertising services, communication and publishing tools, development and statistical tools as well as map-related products. Google is also the producer of the mobile operating system Android, Chrome OS, Google TV as well as desktop and mobile applications such as the internet browser Google Chrome or mobile web applications based on pre-existing Google products. Recently, Google has also been developing selected pieces of hardware which ranges from the Nexus series of mobile devices to smart home devices and driverless cars. Due to its immense scale, Google also offers a crisis response service covering disasters, turmoil and emergencies, as well as an open source missing person finder in times of disaster. Despite the vast scope of Google products, the company still collects the majority of its revenue through online advertising on Google Site and Google network websites. Other revenues are generated via product licensing and most recently, digital content and mobile apps via the Google Play Store, a distribution platform for digital content. As of September 2020, some of the highest-grossing Android apps worldwide included mobile games such as Candy Crush Saga, Pokemon Go, and Coin Master.

This statistic shows the 2025 ranking of the top 10 biotech and pharmaceutical companies worldwide, based on net income. U.S.-based company Johnson & Johnson was ranked first with a net income of **** billion U.S. dollars. Biotech and pharmaceutical companiesJohnson & Johnson and Merck & Co., both based in the United States, are among the world’s largest biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies based on their net incomes of approximately **** billion U.S. dollars and **** billion U.S. dollars, respectively, as of 2025. Johnson & Johnson generated some **** billion U.S. dollars of revenue in 2024. Pfizer had record-high annual revenues during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, exceeding 100 billion U.S. dollars in 2022.

Story of a former blockbuster Lyrica was once one of Pfizer’s most successful products. It is an anticonvulsant for neuropathic pain and is also used as therapy for partial seizures. In the EU and in Russia, Lyrica has also been approved to treat general anxiety disorder. In 2017, this prescription medication generated some **** billion U.S. dollars in revenue.

Exxon Mobil was the leading oil and gas producing company worldwide by net income as of 12-month rolling data from June 2024. Many oil supermajors are among the most profitable oil and gas companies after rebounding from losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Big Oil companies like ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell recorded historic net losses in 2020, some for the first time ever, as the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on fuel demand made it difficult for many within the industry to turn a profit - particularly companies not majority-owned by the state. Oil and gas industry The oil and gas industry is one of the largest industries worldwide. This sector is involved in exploration, extraction, refining, transport, and marketing of petroleum commodities. Many industries rely heavily on oil and gas products as fuels and feedstocks. It is no wonder then that oil and gas companies are regularly among the most profitable companies worldwide.

State-owned enterprises are largest producers State-owned businesses are among the largest within the oil and gas industry. Saudi Arabia's Saudi Aramco is by far the leading oil company worldwide based on daily oil production, at over ************ barrels per day. ExxonMobil was the largest non-state-owned oil producer, at *********** barrels per day in 2023.

In 2024, Microsoft generated approximately, 2780 billion U.S. dollars in revenue, making it the largest IT services company in the world in terms of revenue. Other major firms in the IT services market include Alphabet Inc., with revenues of over 1780 billion U.S. dollars, followed by AWS and Meta. IT services market A key sub-sector of the larger information technology industry is the IT services market. This sub-sector brings in hundreds of millions of dollars each year, with forecasts suggesting that this number will reach 1.42 trillion U.S. dollars in spending in 2023 after eclipsing the one trillion dollar mark in 2019. Digitalization, along with constant technological advancement, means that businesses in nearly every industry rely on IT services which results in continuous market spending. What are IT services products? The term IT services refers to a large amount of services and solutions used by businesses to assess, manage, and deliver information. These services include cloud computing, database management, as well as hardware deployment and support. Notably, these IT solutions assist in a vast array of business functions and thereby empower companies to stay agile and adaptive in a quickly changing environment.

In 2024, Meta Platforms generated a revenue of over 164 billion U.S. dollars, up from 134 billion USD in 2023. The majority of Meta’s profits come from its advertising revenue.Meta’s total Family of Apps revenue for 2022 amounted to 114 billion U.S. dollars. Additionally, Meta’s Reality Labs, the company’s VR division, generated around 2.1 billion dollars. Meta’s marketing expenditure for 2022 amounted to just over 15 billion U.S. dollars, up from 14 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. Increasing audience base despite privacy misgivings Meta’s user numbers have continued to grow steadily throughout past years. In the fourth quarter of 2022, there was a total of 3.74 billion worldwide users across all of Meta’s platforms. For this same time frame, the company recorded 407 million monthly active users across Europe. Downloads of Meta’s app Oculus, for which virtual reality headsets are required, increased greatly from 2020 to 2021, reaching a total of 10.62 million downloads by the end of last year. Up until 2021, downloads had grown in a steady manner but from 2020 to 2021, they more than doubled.User numbers have increased despite data security issues and past controversy such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018. There remains skepticism surrounding the idea of the metaverse in which Meta aims to immerse itself. Of surveyed adults in the United States, the majority said that they were concerned about their privacy if Meta were to succeed in creating the metaverse.

This statistic shows the ranking of the global top 10 biotech and pharmaceutical companies worldwide, based on revenue. The values are based on a 2025 database. U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer was ranked first, with a total revenue of around ** billion U.S. dollars. Biotech and pharmaceutical companiesPharmaceutical companies are best known for manufacturing pharmaceutical drugs. These drugs have the aim to diagnose, to cure, to treat, or to prevent diseases. The pharmaceutical sector represents a huge industry, with the global pharmaceutical market being worth around *** trillion U.S. dollars. The best known top global pharmaceutical players are Pfizer, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson from the U.S., Novartis and Roche from Switzerland, Sanofi from France, etc. Most of these companies are involved not only in pure pharmaceutical business, but also manufacture medical technology and consumer health products, vaccines, etc. There are both pure play biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical companies which among other products also produce biotech products within their biotechnological divisions. Most of the leading global pharmaceutical companies have biopharmaceutical divisions. Although not a pure play biotech firm, Roche from Switzerland is among the companies with the largest revenues from biotechnology products worldwide. In contrast, California-based company Amgen was one of the world’s first large pure play biotech companies. Biotech companies use biotechnology to generate their products, most often medical drugs or agricultural genetic engineering. The latter segment is dominated by companies like Bayer CropScience and Syngenta. The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity defines biotechnology as follows: "Any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use." In fact, biotechnology is thousands of years old, used in agriculture, food manufacturing and medicine.

The global market research industry reached a record high market size of approximately ** billion U.S. dollars in 2023. Over the last decade, the global market research industry has performed contrary to broader economic trends as the industry has continued to grow. Figures for 2023 signaled an increase of about *** billion U.S. dollars compared to the previous year. Market research industryMarket research is the activity of gathering information about markets in which an organization sells their produces and/or services. This often includes detailed qualitative understandings of consumer attitudes and preferences through tools such interviews, surveys, and increasingly, big-data analytics. The leading market research company worldwide was U.S.-based Gartner in 2022. Slow growth in EuropeWhile growth in the United States has been significant, the revenue of the market research industry in Europe grew just slightly since 2014. Some analysts expect this poor performance to continue into the near future for *** reasons. First is the short- and mid-term uncertainty created by Brexit, impacting the reliability of any market research conducted prior to the issue being resolved. Second is the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws in May 2018, which limit what companies are able to do with personal data. A majority of IT professionals in France, Germany and the UK agree the GDPR laws will prevent personal data being passed on to third parties, reducing the amount of data available to researchers in Europe compared to other regions.

The Nestlé Group’s net income rose from about *** billion in 2017 to roughly **** billion Swiss Francs in 2024. Nestlé is one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, accounting for over 2000 brands in over 180 countries. Nestlé worldwide Nestlé is a multinational food and drink corporation based in Vaud, Switzerland. In 2024, the Swiss company generated about ** percent of its global sales in North America, Nestlé’s largest market. Roughly ** percent was earned in Europe that year. Asia, Oceania, and Africa (AOC) followed with about ** percent. Nestlé’s product categories In 2021, Nestlé Group’s top-selling products based on global sales were powdered and liquid beverages, which made almost ** billion Swiss Francs that year. PetCare stood in second place with just under ** billion Swiss Francs. In terms of, organic sales growth, PetCare is the fastest growing category.

In the second fiscal quarter of 2025, the Walt Disney Company reported a net income of 3.2 billion U.S. dollars, up from a net loss of 20 million U.S. dollars in the same quarter of the previous year. Film studio's success The Walt Disney Company is well-known all over the world and has been famous for decades. Founded by Walt and Roy O. Disney in 1923, the company is popular among children and adults alike for its detailed cartoons as well as countless feature-length animations and shorts. For its contributions to the silver screen, Walt Disney Studios received 10 Academy Award nominations in 2023, as well as two wins. However, in 2025, the studio received just one nomination, marking a significant decline compared to previous years. Brand strength Not only is the company a household name loved for its merchandise, theme parks, and near timeless appeal, it is also one of the most valuable U.S. brands in the world. Despite the death of Walt Disney in 1966, the company has gone from strength to strength and kept up with the pace of every fast-moving market of which it is a part, with the most recent addition being streaming service Disney+. The Walt Disney Company has multiple assets, and its entertainment holdings include Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, Pixar, and ESPN Inc.

In the second fiscal quarter of 2025, The Walt Disney Company generated about 23.6 billion U.S. dollars in revenue. Company's revenues for the quarter show significant growth year-on-year. The Walt Disney Company: net income Disney's quarterly net income often varies wildly throughout each fiscal year, sometimes surpassing four or five billion U.S. dollars and other times dipping below one billion. In the fourth fiscal quarter of 2024, the company generated a net income of 460 million U.S. dollars. The company's segments As far as revenue is concerned, the company's most lucrative area is its media and entertainment business. The Walt Disney Company announced a revenue of 91.36 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, up from 88.9 billion U.S. dollars a year earlier – an annual growth of about three percent. Of this revenue, over 41 billion U.S. dollars was generated in its media and entertainment segment in 2024.

Shell had the highest annual revenue of all companies based in the United Kingdom in 2025, at approximately 284 billion U.S. dollars. BP had the second-highest annual revenue at over 189 billion dollars, followed by HSBC Holdings, which had a revenue of around 142 billion U.S. dollars. In terms of global employee numbers, however, Compass Group had the highest number among UK-based businesses, at approximately half a million in 2024, followed by Tesco at 336,400 and HSBC at almost 211,000. Big Oil, a banking giant, and Britain's top supermarket chain The two companies listed as having the most revenue in the UK this year are also two of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world, alongside Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies. After a huge surge in energy prices in 2022, these companies saw their profits recede slightly in 2023, but clearly remain in strong financial positions as of 2024. HSBC Holdings, meanwhile, was the largest bank in Europe in terms of market capitalization, and was estimated to have the second-highest number of UK-based customers in 2024. The company with the fourth-highest revenue in this year, Tesco has by some distance the largest grocery-market share in Great Britain, a position it has maintained despite growing competition from discounters like Lidl and Aldi. UK economy health check In the first quarter of 2025, the UK economy grew by 0.7 percent, emerging from a brief slowdown in growth towards the end of 2024. Consumer Price inflation, has, however, started to increase, with the inflation rate reaching 3.5 percent in April, the highest rate since January 2024. Furthermore, the UK labor market is showing signs of weakness, with quite a high number of job losses since the start of the year. Alongside these generally negative signs, business confidence in the UK has been falling, with the main concern of UK firms being that of taxation, as of early 2025.

The global big data and business analytics (BDA) market was valued at 168.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2018 and is forecast to grow to 215.7 billion U.S. dollars by 2021. In 2021, more than half of BDA spending will go towards services. IT services is projected to make up around 85 billion U.S. dollars, and business services will account for the remainder. Big data High volume, high velocity and high variety: one or more of these characteristics is used to define big data, the kind of data sets that are too large or too complex for traditional data processing applications. Fast-growing mobile data traffic, cloud computing traffic, as well as the rapid development of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) all contribute to the increasing volume and complexity of data sets. For example, connected IoT devices are projected to generate 79.4 ZBs of data in 2025. Business analytics Advanced analytics tools, such as predictive analytics and data mining, help to extract value from the data and generate business insights. The size of the business intelligence and analytics software application market is forecast to reach around 16.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Growth in this market is driven by a focus on digital transformation, a demand for data visualization dashboards, and an increased adoption of cloud.

In 2024, the leading media company worldwide based on revenue was Alphabet Inc., with revenue of *** billion euros. In second place was Meta Platforms Inc, followed by Bytedance, Comcast Corporation, and Amazon. Media market - additional information The global entertainment and media market has a high value, considering it is made up of television, radio, internet, newspaper and in general technology-based companies. In 2024, this industry had an accumulated value of approximately *** trillion U.S. dollars. Projections for this market are optimistic as this industry is expected to increase its value over the next years, potentially reaching a revenue of *** trillion U.S. dollars by 2027. The first-ranking Alphabet had a revenue of over *** billion euros in 2024. The U.S. is the most important regional market for Alphabet, generating over ** percent of its revenue. Alphabet was followed by a fellow tech company, Meta, and by ByteDance, who owns TikTok. The majority of the leading media companies in the world are U.S.-based companies. Indeed, media has a major role in the daily life of Americans. On average, a consumer in the U.S. spent more than ** hours per day consuming major media.

The global revenue made by Samsung Electronics between 2005 and 2023 has overall significantly grown. In 2024, Samsung Electronics recorded a revenue of over *** trillion South Korean won, although only the second-highest recorded revenue for the Korean giant in the given period, but also the company's highest revenue reported in U.S. dollars with approximately *** billion U.S. dollars. Samsung Electronics and subsidiaries Samsung was founded in 1938 and originally dealt with groceries as well as the production noodles. It quickly diversified into various sectors including insurance and retail and became the present day corporation in 1947, after a joint investment in Samsung Mulsan Gongsa. The headquarters are found in Seoul, South Korea. There are several subsidiaries that account for the variety of enterprises that the Samsung Group undertakes including Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Heavy Industries. Samsung Electronics is one of the largest subsidiaries of the Samsung Group, making much over half of the group’s revenue. Samsung Electronics is headquartered in Suwon, South Korea and has assembly plants and sales networks in ** countries. Samsung Electronics generated most of its revenue in the Americas and Europe in 2024. Major divisions Samsung Electronics has four major divisions including digital media, semiconductor, telecommunication network, and LCD digital appliances. The company provides electronic components such as lithium-ion batteries and semiconductors to companies like Sony and Apple. Samsung is become especially known for some of its consumer products such as mobile devices as well as their home entertainment systems. Since 2002, the company has been one of the largest producers of LCD panels as well as one of the largest television manufacturers in the world. As of 2024, Samsung held almost ** percent of the global TV market share. In that same year, Samsung's smartphone shipments amounted to over *** million units, ranking second globally behind only Apple.

In the fiscal year ended on September 30, 2024, The Walt Disney Company generated a total revenue of more than ***** billion U.S. dollars, up from **** billion dollars a year earlier – an annual growth of around three percent.The Walt Disney Company reports its numbers based on fiscal years that end late September/early October of the corresponding calendar year. A media leviathan The Walt Disney Company controls several entertainment and media enterprises with a solid global presence. Arguably, its most famous facet remains Walt Disney Studios, which, as of late 2024, included benchmark companies such as **th Century Studios, Marvel, Pixar, and Searchlight. Despite a ** percent increase in box office revenue across the United States and Canada in 2024, that year's figure remained below the amount that Disney's studio division amassed in 2019, before the pandemic. Still, Disney alone accounted for a significant share of the box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada in 2024, driven by the success of "Frozen 2" and "Moana 2. Parks and recreation The holding is also known for its theme parks, which continued to bounce back from the coronavirus outbreak and its subsequent mobility restrictions. In 2023, the Magic Kingdom theme park, located at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, was the most visited Disney theme park location in the United States, with over **** million visitors. Similarly, The Walt Disney Company's net income remained far from pre-pandemic standards. The figure amounted to about **** billion dollars in the fiscal year 2024 – only a little more than one-third of the record-high ****-billion-dollar result seen in the fiscal year 2018.

In 2023, software and tech hosting/cloud services/MSP companies had a much higher spending share on IT than other industries, amounting to ** percent and ** percent of their revenues, respectively. By contrast, the consumer products and services industry invested only around **** percent of their revenue in IT. Overall, all industries increased their IT spending per revenue share in 2023 compared to the previous year. Cloud computing Cloud computing is an essential IT service that utilizes a network of distant servers hosted over the Internet to store, handle, and process data. This segment of IT services was projected to generate revenues exceeding *** billion U.S. dollars in 2024 and is expected to continue its rapid growth trajectory. Managed Services Providers (MSPs) provide companies with the expertise and technical support to manage their cloud infrastructure and products without the need for in-house specialists. Cloud computing is segmented into three main categories. Software as a Service (SaaS) delivers software applications over the Internet, on a subscription basis, freeing companies from software and hardware management. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers a virtualized computing infrastructure managed over the Internet, allowing businesses to avoid the costs and complexities of purchasing and managing physical servers and data center infrastructure. Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure.

Apart from TotalEnergies, the net income of major oil and gas companies in the first quarter of 2025 increased across the board. All companies were able to turn a profit this quarter despite economic uncertainty and lower than expected crude prices. Saudi Aramco continues to dominate the sector, with net earnings exceeding ** billion U.S. dollars. This performance underscores the continued financial strength of state-owned oil enterprises in a volatile global energy market. State-owned giants lead production and profits Saudi Aramco's financial dominance is rooted in its unparalleled production output. The company extracts approximately **** million barrels of crude oil and associated liquids per day, more than * times that of its closest competitor. This vast output dwarfs that of private companies like ExxonMobil, which produces around *** million barrels daily. The scale of state-controlled oil companies extends beyond production to reserves as well, with Saudi Aramco holding nearly *** billion barrels of proved hydrocarbon reserves in 2023, over ** times ExxonMobil's reported reserves. Shifting strategies in a changing industry As the oil and gas sector faces pressure to adapt to climate concerns, companies are diversifying their portfolios. Shell has maintained the highest brand value among oil and gas companies, estimated at **** billion U.S. dollars in 2024, partly due to its increased focus on low-carbon investments. TotalEnergies is leading the supermajors in capital expenditure on renewables and other low-carbon sources, spending *** billion U.S. dollars in 2023. In contrast, ExxonMobil allocated just **** billion U.S. dollars to such initiatives, while Saudi Aramco's low-carbon investments remain limited to blue ammonia production and solar project investments.