Finance experts use a lot of different ways to figure out how much a company is worth,
but one of the most common ways is to look at its market capitalization, which is called
"market cap" in the stock market.
This is a list of the top 10 richest companies in the world that are on the stock market.
Number 10 Tancent Holdings.
China's Tencent is a tech conglomerate and venture capital company.
It also owns a lot of stocks and has a market value of $586 billion.
Tencent Holdings is a very big company not just in the gaming industry, but also in a
lot of other areas where it works, like mobile games, music, web portals, e-commerce, and
the Internet.
Pony Ma, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Chenye, Chen Yidan, and Zeng Liqing started the company in 1998.
In 2018, it became the first Asian tech company to have a market value of more than $500 billion.
As of 2021, the company made more than $80 billion.
It is based in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen. 700 million people use Tencent Music every
day, and the company has a workforce of 85,800 people.
Number 9 Taiwan Semiconductor.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited is a multinational company that makes
semiconductors which It is based in Taiwan.
It is the biggest company in Taiwan and it is in Hsinchu Science Park, which is in the
city of Hsinchu.
When it comes to semiconductors, TSMC is the world's ninth most valuable company with market
value of $627.05 billion.
When Morris Chang started TSMC in 1987, he was the only person who owned it.
It is now owned by people from other countries.
The company made $51.44 billion in sales in 2021, and it has a 56,800-strong workforce
all over the world, too.
Number 8 Meta Platforms.
California-based Company, Meta Platforms, the company that owns Facebook, is the eighth-largest
company in the world.
It is the parent company of Facebook.
In the world, it is the most popular place to meet new friends.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in the year 2004.
It has since bought many social media companies, like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus, from
other companies.
Facebook, also known as FB, has made the most money it has ever made since it was started.
In 2021, it made $117.92 billion.
It has 71,970 employees around the world.
As of 2021, Facebook has about 2.91 billion people who use it every month with the market
value of $627.69 Billion.
Number 7 Berkshire Hathaway.
Berkshire Hathaway is an American conglomerate holding company that owns a lot of different
businesses in the US.
When Berkshire Hathaway was founded 182 years ago in the year 1839, it was at first a textile
company.
Warren Buffett is the chairman and CEO of the company, and he's known as "The Oracle
of Omaha" because of his investment strategy.
In 2021, Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway has a market value of $ 713.46 billion, and it
had revenue of $346.04 billion in that same year.
The company has 360,000 employees who work for them.
People are paying more than $450,000 for a share of the company.
It's the most expensive stock in the world, in terms of how much money it costs per share.
Number 6 Tesla.
In the United States, Tesla is a company that makes electric cars and sells energy, It is
also the world's biggest electric car manufacturer.
The company has a value of 872.9 billion dollars on the stock market.
The company also makes solar panels, solar roof tiles, and batteries that use renewable
energy.
They all come from the same place: the sun.
Tesla and 27 other companies have formed ZETA that is Zero Emission Transport Association
in 2020 to make all cars and trucks that run on gas or diesel go electric.
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning started Tesla Inc. in 2003, and the company is based
in Palo Alto.
As long as CEO Elon Musk is around, he is the person who people see when they think
of the company.
He has a 22% stake in Tesla.
In 2009, Tesla made its first car, the Roadster.
Around 70,700 people work for Tesla, There are 598 stores in different parts of the world.
Number 5 Amazon.
Amazon.com, is an American multinational tech company, has a market value of $1.56 trillion.
It is the fifth-largest company in the world by market value.
Because Jeff Bezos is third the richest person on Earth, he came up with a way to start a
company called Amazon out of his garage back in 1994.
Amazon started out as a company that sold books online, but it has since grown to sell
almost everything you need in today's world, like Video games, Apparel, Furniture, Shoes,
Computers, and Consumer electronics.
Amazon made the most money ever in 2021, making it the world's most profitable Internet company
by sales.
It has a record 1,608,000 employees around the world.
Number 4 Alphabet.
Alphabet is an American multinational company that own by Google and other subsidairy companies.
This is the fourth-largest company in the world, with a market value of $1.773 trillion.
It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were students at Stanford
University.
Google, a company based in California, is the world's top search engine, with a market
share of 91.9 percent as of 2022.
Alphabet made $182.5 billion in revenue in 2021 and has about 135,000 employees around
the world.
Number 3 Saudi Aramco.
A company called Saudi Aramco that is Saudi Arabian Oil Company went public just three
years ago.
It is now the third-largest company in the world with a market value of 1.987 trillion
dollars.The Saudi government owns Aramco, a company that produce oil.
Aramco has 270 billion barrels of crude oil on hand.
Saudi Arabia is part of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries , which
is made up of 12 countries that produce 44% of the world's oil.
Saudi Aramco, the company that raised a record $25.6 billion dollars in its first public
offering, was founded in 1933 in the city of Dahran.
The company made $230 billion in 2020.
They have businesses in China, Japan and many other places.
Aramco has businesses in the United Arab Emirates.
Around 66,800 people work for Aramco around the world, and the Saudi Arabian government
owns 98.5 percent of the company.
Number 2 Microsoft.
A market value of $2.21 trillion places Microsoft as the world's second-largest company.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft in 1975.
Today, Microsoft is the world's best-known company for making software for home computers.
The Microsoft Windows operating system was a huge hit that made a lot of money for the
company.
Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Washington, made $143 billion in sales and has 166,475
employees on staff.
Number 1 Apple.
With a market value of $ 2.75 trillion, Apple is the most valuable company in the world.
As of 2021, Apple is the best-selling brand, making $275 billion in sales.
Three tech geniuses, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Jobs, made it happen in 1976,
when they came up with the idea.
Apple started out making personal computers, but after making a lot of money with its phones,
it started making a lot more money when Apple started out making laptops and iPhones, but
now they make a lot of different things, like smartwatches, iPad tablets, TVs, and other
things.
it is the first company in the world to have a market value of 2 trillion, It now has more
than 516 stores around the world and employs more than 147,000 people.
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