The largest companies in the world. Ria rating The richest Russian company
Moscow, January 31 - “News. Economy". The total market capitalization of the 100 most valuable Russian public companies at the end of 2017 increased by 1.3%, to $643 billion.
Below we present the ten most valuable Russian companies.
The leading position in the ranking is now occupied by Sberbank, whose capitalization over the past year has grown by almost 40%, to $84 billion. The share of market capitalization attributable to financial sector companies increased over the year to 16.9% versus 15.8% in the previous rating, and their market value approached $110 billion.
At the end of last year, second place was occupied by the long-term leader, Gazprom, with a capitalization of $53.35 billion. Gazprom's capitalization decreased by 11%, but this still allowed it to slightly (by only $45 million) overtake Rosneft.
3. Rosneft
Rosneft, which in 2016 pushed the long-time leader Gazprom off the pedestal, was unable to maintain its first place in 2017 and took third place at the end of last year. This is explained by a decrease in Rosneft’s capitalization by 24% over the year, to $53.3 billion.
Among the 100 most valuable companies, market capitalization increased in 55 in 2017, which is noticeably less than last year’s result (91 companies). In general, five companies had multiple capitalization growth in 2017, which in most cases was due to additional issues. For comparison, in 2016, 25 companies showed a multiple increase in capitalization, which was most often determined by the dynamics of shares.
The minimum market capitalization volume required to get into the top 10, on the contrary, became smaller over the year - $15.3 billion versus $15.9 billion a year earlier.
According to RIA Rating experts, in 2018, the growth of quotes for most companies, which began in mid-2017, is likely to continue. However, for many of them the low base effect has already been exhausted and growth should not be very strong.
As before, the largest contribution to the total value of the most valuable companies in 2017 was made by corporations associated with oil and gas production and oil refining. They account for 39.9% of the total capitalization of the Top 100 most valuable companies in Russia, which is 4.2 percentage points less than a year earlier. The reduction in share is due to negative dynamics in the value of a number of the largest companies in this sector.
The retailer Magnit and VTB left the list of the ten largest companies in Russia by capitalization. VTB moved from tenth place at the end of 2016 to 14th place at the beginning of 2018, which is due to a decrease in capitalization by 33%. Over the past year, the Magnit retail chain's capitalization has decreased even more - by 39%, or $6.6 billion, which led to the loss of eight places in the ranking, and now this company is in 16th place.
The third industry by total capitalization was metallurgy. Metallurgical companies account for 13.9% of the market value of the largest Russian companies by capitalization. In general, 2017 can be called the “year of metallurgists”, since following the prices for steel and coal, their stock quotes showed rapid positive dynamics.
Today we have top 10 most valuable companies in the world.
Today, many people will probably recognize the company logo, because Apple Corporation has truly become one of the most successful companies with a market value of more than $720.12 billion.
The company was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Jobs. Initially, the trio began assembling home computers and producing their own PC models, but the greatest success came precisely in the last years of the company, when Apple introduced the world to its line of mobile products - iPhone smartphones and iPad tablets.
Today, the company’s range of products is very wide – smart watches, computers and laptops, tablets and smartphones, etc. But the main feature of the popularity of Apple gadgets was the high quality, stylish design and the smartest marketing program of Steve Jobs.
Today the company includes thousands of representative offices, branded stores and service centers around the world, with a staff of about 132 thousand employees.
The headquarters is located in the USA, in Cupertino, California.
$482.36 billion
Industry: Insurance, finance, railway transport, utilities, production of food and non-food products.
The company is known for its permanent owner, American investor and entrepreneur Warren Buffett. The headquarters is located in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
The cost of one share of this company is $293,750, making it the most expensive share in the world.
Affiliated companies:
- GEICO (auto insurance);
- General Re (reinsurance);
- Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group (insurance);
- Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group (insurance and reinsurance);
- BNSF - (railway transport);
- Berkshire Hathaway Energy (electricity and gas supply);
- McLane Company (wholesale).
In 2015, the number of participants in the annual meeting of shareholders exceeded 40 thousand people.
For this reason, the company's shareholders' meeting received the humorous nickname "Woodstock for capitalists."
$413.25 billion
Industry: Internet.
Facebook was developed by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. Today, the social network Facebook is visited by over 1.86 billion people every day. For one Internet project, with a market value of 413.25 billion dollars, this is simply an astronomical indicator of popularity and demand.
Today, Facebook generates more than $8 billion in net revenue per year from advertising. In addition, Facebook is the leader among this list in terms of profitability, as it increased its net profit by 54% in the last year alone.
The headquarters is located in Menlo Park, California.
$400.90 billion
Industry: Conglomerate.
Products: Social networks, instant messaging, mass media, web portals, etc.
Tencent is a venture capital firm, conglomerate, investment holding company, and one of the largest companies in the gaming industry.
This Chinese multinational investment holding company was founded in 1998. Today it ranks 7th in the ranking of the most valuable companies.
Its many services include social networking, mobile gaming, music, web portals, payment systems, e-commerce, Internet services, smartphones and massively multiplayer online games, which are among the largest and most successful in the world in their respective categories.
Tencent Seafront Towers (also known as Tencent Binhai Mansion) is headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen.
$392.25 billion
Industry: Internet.
Products: E-commerce, online auction hosting, online money transfers, mobile commerce.
Industry: Banking.
JPMorgan Chase is the largest commercial bank in the United States and the 6th largest commercial bank in the world by assets.
The nucleus for the formation of JPMorgan Chase was Chemical Bank, from which it inherited its headquarters and stock price history.
Brand J.P. Morgan, historically known as Morgan, provides investment banking services, asset management, private banking, and wealth management.
Location: USA, New York, Manhattan, 270 Park Avenue.
Market capitalization as a method of estimating the value of a company
Market capitalization, along with annual income and the sum of all assets, is one of the methods for assessing the investment attractiveness of a company.
Using market capitalization to represent company size is important because company size is a major determinant of various characteristics that investors are interested in, including risk.
Being the product of the number of shares and their price, market capitalization is not the price at which the owner will necessarily sell his company.
Despite the fact that companies can be overvalued by the market or, on the contrary, undervalued, in order to obtain the real value of a company it is necessary to consider its activities from a fundamental point of view.
Below is a list of the world's largest companies based on their market capitalization. The first place on the list is occupied by Apple Inc., founded in 1976, with a market capitalization of over $900 billion; second and third places are occupied by Alphabet and Microsoft, respectively. Apple Corporation, headquartered in Cupertino, California, employs approximately 123,000 people (including more than 76,000 in the United States) and operates approximately 500 retail locations in 22 countries. For the 2017 fiscal year, the company's income (net sales) amounted to $229 billion. Apple has created about 2 million jobs in the United States. Alphabet, headquartered in Mountain View, California, is the second largest company in the world by market capitalization.
Top 50 most valuable companies in the world
| Place 2017 |
Place 2018 |
Company | A country | Market capitalization (billions of US dollars, January 17, 2018) |
Market capitalization (billions of US dollars, January 17, 2017) |
| 1 | 1 | Apple | USA | 911.1 | 630.9 |
| 2 | 2 | Alphabet | USA | 788.8 | 562.9 |
| 3 | 3 | Microsoft | USA | 695.4 | 486.0 |
| 5 | 4 | Amazon | USA | 624.0 | 383.7 |
| 13 | 5 | Tencent Holdings | China | 550.2 | 243.8 |
| 4 | 6 | Berkshire Hathaway | USA | 528.5 | 395.8 |
| 6 | 7 | USA | 518.3 | 369.6 | |
| 14 | 8 | Alibaba | China | 470.8 | 239.5 |
| 8 | 9 | Johnson & Johnson | USA | 394.9 | 312.1 |
| 9 | 10 | JPMorgan Chase | USA | 392.0 | 300.4 |
| 15 | 11 | Industrial & Comm Bank of China | China | 376.8 | 231.4 |
| 7 | 12 | ExxonMobil | USA | 372.9 | 357.8 |
| 17 | 13 | Bank of America | USA | 325.2 | 228.7 |
| 11 | 14 | Wells Fargo | USA | 314.6 | 272.6 |
| 26 | 15 | Wal-Mart Stores | USA | 304.2 | 209.3 |
| 21 | 16 | Samsung Electronics | South Korea | 301.7 | 224.2 |
| 16 | 17 | Royal Dutch Shell | Netherlands | 296.6 | 229.6 |
| 30 | 18 | Visa | USA | 276.4 | 189.9 |
| 18 | 19 | Nestle | Switzerland | 268.5 | 228.5 |
| 32 | 20 | China Construction Bank | China | 267.1 | 188.3 |
| 22 | 21 | Chevron | USA | 251.4 | 218.9 |
| 23 | 22 | PetroChina Co Ltd | China | 235.9 | 217.4 |
| 25 | 23 | Anheuser-Busch InBev | Belgium | 234.2 | 212.8 |
| 39 | 24 | Home Depot | USA | 233.3 | 165.9 |
| 20 | 25 | Procter & Gamble | USA | 231.4 | 227.3 |
| 45 | 26 | UnitedHealth Group | USA | 231.1 | 150.1 |
| 29 | 27 | Toyota Motor | Japan | 229.6 | 193.8 |
| 31 | 28 | Novartis | Switzerland | 227.4 | 188.9 |
| 12 | 29 | AT&T | USA | 226.2 | 250.6 |
| 43 | 30 | Taiwan Semiconductor | Taiwan | 223.7 | 152.9 |
| 38 | 31 | HSBC Holdings | Great Britain | 222.4 | 166.5 |
| 28 | 32 | Pfizer | USA | 221.6 | 194.4 |
| – | 33 | Ping An Insurance Group | China | 217.7 | 94.0 |
| 46 | 34 | Agricultural Bank of China | China | 217.1 | 148.3 |
| 24 | 35 | Verizon Communications | USA | 211.0 | 213.004 |
| 27 | 36 | Roche Holding | Switzerland | 210.5 | 202.8 |
| – | 37 | Boeing | USA | 209.1 | 97.3 |
| 41 | 38 | Oracle | USA | 208.1 | 160.8 |
| 34 | 39 | Intel | USA | 207.7 | 174.2 |
| 19 | 40 | China Mobile | China | 207.6 | 227.4 |
| 40 | 41 | Citigroup | USA | 204.8 | 163.5 |
| 44 | 42 | Cisco Systems | USA | 203.7 | 150.7 |
| 33 | 43 | Coca-Cola | USA | 199.5 | 178.1 |
| 35 | 44 | Comcast | USA | 194.8 | 173.0 |
| 48 | 45 | Bank of China | China | 189.4 | 146.2 |
| – | 46 | Mastercard | USA | 174.0 | 117.2 |
| 47 | 47 | PepsiCo | USA | 169.5 | 147.3 |
| 37 | 48 | Merck | USA | 169.0 | 168.7 |
| 36 | 49 | Walt Disney | USA | 168.7 | 171.3 |
| – | 50 | AbbVie | USA | 166.5 | 98.5 |
20 largest companies in the world by revenue
Below is a list of the largest companies in the world based on their total revenue. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the American retail giant, is the largest company in the world with total revenues of $485 billion. The company, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, employs 2.3 million people. It serves more than 250 million customers each week online and in 11,700 locations in 28 countries.
| Place | Company | A country | Revenue (USD billion, 2016) | Net income (billions of US dollars, 2016) |
| 1 | Wal-Mart | USA | $485.3 | $13.6 |
| 2 | State Grid Corporation | China | $301.4 | $12.5 |
| 3 | China Petroleum & Chemical | China | $255.7 | $7.0 |
| 4 | Toyota Motor | Japan | $236.7 | $19.3 |
| 5 | Volkswagen Group | Germany | $228.9 | $5.4 |
| 6 | Royal Dutch Shell | Netherlands | $213.0 | $4.2 |
| 7 | Berkshire Hathaway | USA | $222.9 | $24.1 |
| 8 | Apple | USA | $217.5 | $45.2 |
| 9 | PetroChina | China | $214.8 | $1.2 |
| 10 | ExxonMobil | USA | $197.5 | $7.8 |
| 11 | McKesson | USA | $196.5 | $2.0 |
| 12 | UnitedHealth Group | USA | $184.9 | $7.2 |
| 13 | BP plc | Great Britain | $183.8 | $0.1 |
| 14 | CVS Health | USA | $177.5 | $5.3 |
| 15 | Samsung Electronics | South Korea | $174 | $19.3 |
| 16 | Daimler | Germany | $169.5 | $9.4 |
| 17 | General Motors | USA | $166.4 | $9.4 |
| 18 | AT&T | USA | $163.8 | $13.0 |
| 19 | Glencore | Switzerland | $152.9 | $0.94 |
| 20 | Ford Motor Company | USA | $151.8 | $4.6 |
To assess the changes that have occurred among Russian issuers and in the Russian stock market as a whole, experts from the RIA Rating agency prepared the next annual, fifth in a row, Rating of the 100 most valuable public companies in Russia as of the beginning of 2018.
The main ruble index (Moscow Exchange) fell by 5.5% over the year, while the dollar index (RTS) grew by only 0.2%. However, despite the decline in the index, most of the largest companies by capitalization showed an increase in quotations in 2017. According to the rating, the total capitalization of the TOP 100 Russian companies over the past year increased by 1.3% or $8.4 billion to $643 billion as of December 29, 2017. For comparison, in 2016 the growth was much higher - +58% or +233 billion dollars. The median capitalization of the Russian 100 public companies did not change and amounted to $1.8-1.9 billion. In turn, the minimum capitalization size with which one could be among the TOP 100 most valuable companies at the end of 2017 was $318 million, against $267 million in last year’s ranking and 157 as of December 31, 2015. (Thus, the lower bar for entering the 100 most valuable companies in Russia has doubled in two years.
The top ten, according to the rating, also included the following companies: Sberbank, Gazprom, Rosneft, LUKOIL, NOVATEK, Norilsk Nickel, Gazprom Neft, Tatneft, Surgutneftegaz and NLMK. It is worth noting that at the end of the year, two companies left the TOP 10, and accordingly, there were two new companies in the top ten. Magnit and VTB Bank left the list of the ten largest companies in Russia by capitalization.
Among the 100 most valuable companies, market capitalization increased in 55 in 2017, which is noticeably less than last year’s result (91 companies). The leader in market capitalization growth rate among the TOP 100 companies in the rating in 2017 was the development company Ingrad. The capitalization of this company increased more than 8 times during the year. The second company in terms of growth rate was Lenenergo, whose capitalization increased by 4.7 times, which is also mainly due to the additional issue. In general, 5 companies had multiple capitalization growth in 2017, which in most cases was due to additional issues. For comparison, in 2016, 25 companies showed a multiple increase in capitalization, which was most often determined by the dynamics of shares.
The largest decrease in capitalization in 2017 among the companies included in the rating was demonstrated by the company in the financial sector of the Future Financial Group. Among the companies with a significant decrease in market capitalization were also AFK Sistema, Magnit, Bashneft, VTB Bank, Nizhnekamskneftekhim, Lenta, Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant, Rusagro, Uralkali and Polyus.
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