As of May 21, 2021 the largest publicly listed companies by market capitalization are:

'10. Tesla

Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy with electric cars, solar and integrated renewable energy solutions for homes and businesses.

Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020 (in USD) Total revenues: 31.536 billion Automotive revenues: 86% of total revenues Net income attributable to common stockholders: 0.721 billion

Symbol: TSLA (Tesla, Inc. Common Stock)
Market capitalization: $560 billion Share price: $ 581 Earnings per share (last four quarters, GAAP): $ 1.00
P/E Ratio (GAAP*) = Price-to-Earnings ratio (GAAP) = 581

*GAAP = Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. GAAP standardizes financial reporting and provides a uniform set of rules and formats to facilitate analysis by investors and creditors.

'9. Alibaba Group Holding Limited

The ninth largest publicly listed company in the world by market cap is Alibaba, an e-commerce and tech company from China, with a market cap of around 580 billion US dollars. Founded in 1999, Alibaba is a comprehensive directory of suppliers, connecting them directly to buyers from all over the world (i.e. retailers). Alibaba presents millions of products to source, from the suppliers themselves. Alibaba’s businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, and innovation initiatives. As of June 30, 2020, Alibaba Group had a user reach of over 1 billion global annual active consumers, including 807 million consumers in China and 194 million consumers outside China.

Fiscal Year 2020 ended March 31, 2020 (in USD) Revenue: 71.985 billion
Net Income attributable to ordinary shareholders: 21.080 billion

Six months ended September 30, 2020 (in USD) Revenue: 45.483 billion (+32% YoY) Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders: 11.247 (-19% YoY) Diluted earnings per ADS (=8 ordinary shares): 4.10

Symbol: BABA (Alibaba Group Holding Limited American Depositary Shares each representing eight Ordinary share) Market cap: $581 billion Share price: $ 211
Earnings per share (last four quarters): $ 8.12 P/E Ratio = Price-to-Earnings ratio = 26

'8. Berkshire Hathaway

Founded in 1889, Berkshire Hathaway is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in the United States, which owns more than 90 subsidiaries in insurance, rail roads, utilities, manufacturing services, retail and home building. The company is known for its control and leadership by Warren Buffet, who serves as chairman and chief executive officer.

Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2020 (in USD) Revenue: 286.256 billion
Net Income Common Stockholders: 42.521 billion Common Stock Equity: 443.164 billion Ordinary Shares Number: 1.544 million (BRK-A )

1 BRK-A share = 1500 BRK-B shares 1 BRK-A share (worth over $400,000 at the time of writing) can be converted into 1500 BRK-B shares. The conversion privilege does not exist in reverse.

Symbol: BRK.A (Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Common Stock) = 1500 BRK.B Market cap: $658 billion Share price: $ 432,469.04 Earnings per share: around $ 27,500 P/E Ratio: 16 Equity per share: $ 287,000 P/B Ratio (=Price-to-Book ratio): around 1.5

'7. Tencent

Tencent Holding Ltd., also known als Tencent, is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate holding company. Founded in 1998, its subsidiaries globally market various Internet-related services and products, including in entertainment, artificial intelligence, and other technology. Tencent owns WeChat (called Weixin in China) which has over 1.2 billion users, both inside China and around the world. It is often compared to WhatsApp though it’s more akin to a separate operating system: just like you might use Google’s Android for a variety of tasks, it is used to read news, pay bills, order transport or food, and run small businesses.

Tencent makes a lot of money via gaming. Tencent is the largest video games publisher in the world. It owns a 40% stake in Fortnite studio, Epic games. It also owns the entire League of Legends studio, Riot Games.

Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2020 (1 CNY = 0.15314 USD) Revenues: RMB482.064 billion ($ 73.823 billion) Profit attributable to equity holders of the Company: RMB159.847 billion ($ 24.479 billion) Number of shares: 9.594 billion

Symbol: TCTZF (Tencent Holding Ltd., tradable via OTC Pink Market) Market cap: $727 billion Share price: $ 75 Earnings per share (IFRS): $ 2.55
P/E Ratio: 29

'6. Facebook

Facebook is a social networking site that makes it easy for you to connect and share with family and friends online. Originally designed for college students, Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was enrolled at Harvard University.

Facebook daily active users (DAUs) were 1.84 billion (thereof 195 million in US & Canada) on average for December 2020, an increase of 11% year-over-year.
Facebook monthly active users (MAUs) were 2.80 billion as of December 31, 2020, an increase of 12% year-over-year. Facebook views DAUs, and DAUs as a percentage of MAUs, as measures of user engagement on Facebook. DAU/MAU: 66%

Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2020 (in USD) Revenue: 85.965 billion (98% advertising revenue) Net income: 29.146 billion Net income attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders: 29.146 billion EPS attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders, diluted: $10.09 Total stockholders’ equity: $128.290 billion

Symbol: FB (Facebook, Inc. Class A Common Stock) Market cap: $897 billion Share price: $ 316 Earnings per share (last four quarters): $ 11.69 P/E Ratio: 27

5. Alphabet (Google)

Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015. Since then Google is a subsidiary of its parent company Alphabet.

Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2020 (in USD) Revenues: 182.527 billion (80% advertising) Net income: 40.269 billion Diluted net income per share of Class A and B common stock and Class C capital stock: $58.61

Revenues by type Google Search & other: 104.062 billion YouTube ads: 19.772 billion (+4.623 billion YoY) Google Network Members’ properties: 23.090 billion Sum: Google advertising 146.924 billion Google other: 21.711 billion (Google other revenues consist primarily of revenues from Google Play, hardware, YouTube non-advertising like YouTube Premium) Google Cloud: 13.059 billion Other Bets: 0.657 (includes emerging businesses at various stages of development, ranging from those in the research and development phase to those that are in the beginning stages of commercialization) Hedging gains: 0.176 billion

Segment Profitability Operating loss of Google Cloud: -5.607 billion Other bets: -4.476 billion

Symbol: GOOGL (Alphabet Inc. Class A Common Stock) Market cap: $1.554 trillion Share price: $ 2294 EPS (last four quarters): $ 75.12 P/E Ratio (last four quarters): 30.5

4. Amazon

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington in 1994. It started as an online marketplace for books. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization. In 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market, an American supermarket chain, for US$13.4 billion, which substantially increased its footprint as a physical retailer.

Today, Amazon directly employs 1.3 million people around the world and has more than 200 million Prime members worldwide. Nearly 2 million small and medium-sized businesses sell in the Amazon store, and they make up close to 60% of Amazon’s retail sales.

amazon.com is the third most popular website in the United States.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Millions of customers are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

Alexa is a cloud-based service that powers devices like Amazon Echo. Using Alexa is as simple as asking a question, and whether you are at home or on the go, Alexa is designed to make your life easier by using your voice to get more done. You can use your voice to ask Alexa to set reminders, control your smart home, play music, answer questions, read the news and more. Currently, Alexa is compatible with more than 100,000 smart home devices.

Amazon creates and provides access to world-class entertainment through Amazon Originals, Prime Video, Audible, Twitch, Amazon Music, Prime Gaming, and more. Amazon’s digital entertainment products enable customers to access the latest apps and games, stream or download movies, TV shows, and music, and gives customers the ability to access their own files anywhere in the world.

Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2020 (in USD) Net sales: 386.064 billion Net income: 21.331 billion Diluted earnings per share: $ 41.83 Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per shares (diluted): 510 million shares Total stockholders’ equity: $ 93.404 billion

Net sales include product and service sales. Product sales represent revenue from the sale of products and related shipping fees and digital media content. Service sales primarily represent third-party seller fees, AWS sales, advertising services, Amazon Prime membership fees, and certain digital content subscriptions.

Symbol: AMZN (Amazon.com, Inc. Common Stock) Market cap: $1.615 trillion Price: $ 3203 EPS: $ 52.55 P/E Ratio: 61

3. Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft develops and supports software, services, devices, and solutions that deliver new value for customers and helps people and businesses realize their full potential.

Microsoft offers an array of services, including cloud-based solutions that provide customers with software, services, platforms and content, and Microsoft provides solution support and consulting services. Microsoft also delivers relevant online advertising to a global audience.

Microsoft’s products include operating systems; cross-device productivity applications; server applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; and video games. Microsoft also designs, manufactures, and sells devices, including PCs, tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, other intelligent devices, and related accessories.

Microsoft is providing technology and resources to help its customers navigate a remote environment. The company is seeing its family of products play key roles in the ways the world is continuing to work, learn, and connect.

Microsoft’s growth depends on securely delivering continuous innovation and advancing its leading productivity and collaboration tools and services, including Office, Dynamics, and LinkedIn. Dynamics provides cloud-based and on-premises business solutions for financial management, enterprise resource planning (“ERP”), customer relationship management (“CRM”), supply chain management, and other application development platforms for businesses of all sizes. Microsoft also distributes its products and services through OEMs, or original equipment manufacturers, like Acer, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba, that pre-install Microsoft’s software on new devices and servers they sell. The largest component of the OEM business is the Windows operating system pre-installed on devices.
Competitors to Office include software and global application vendors, such as Apple, Cisco Systems, Facebook, Google, IBM, Okta, Proofpoint, Slack, Symantec, Zoom, and numerous web-based and mobile application competitors as well as local application developers.

With Azure, Microsoft’s trusted cloud with comprehensive compliance coverage and Al-based security built in, the company is one of the two largest providers of cloud computing at scale.

Fiscal Year ended June 30, 2020 (in USD) Revenue: 143.015 billion (Product: $ 68.041 billion; Service and other: $ 74.974 billion) Net income: 44.281 billion Diluted earnings per share: 5.76 Cash dividends declared per common share: 2.04 Stockholders’ equity: 118.304 billion

Segment results of operations

Microsoft operates its business and reports its financial performance using three segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. The latter segment primarily compromises Windows, including Windows OEM licensing, devices, including Surface, gaming and search.

Operating income of segments: Productivity and Business Processes: $ 18.724 billion Intelligent Cloud: $ 18.324 billion More Personal Computing: $ 15.911 billion

Symbol: MSFT (Microsoft Corporation Common Stock) Market cap: $1.847 trillion Price: $ 245 EPS: $ 7.34 P/E Ratio: 33.4

2. Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco is the world’s largest integrated oil and gas company and employs around 79,800 people. The Saudi Arabian government-owned oil company managed to raise $29.4 billion in its IPO (initial public offering). On December 11, 2019, shares amounting to 1.5% of Aramco’s value began trading only on the Tadawul, Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange.

Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2020 (1 SAR = 0.26658 USD) Revenue: 205 billion (768.109 billion SAR) Net income: 49.003 billion (183.763 billion SAR)

Symbol: ARAMCO (Saudi Aramco) Market cap: $1.890 trillion Shares outstanding: 200 billion EPS: 0.92 SAR Price: 35.5 SAR P/E ratio: 38.5

1. Apple

Apple’s products and services include the iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple TV. Its services include Apple Arcade, a game subscription service, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Cloud Services, various platforms including the App Store and payment services including Apple Pay, a cashless payment service.

Fiscal Year ended September 26, 2020 (in USD) Net sales: 274.515 billion
(Products: 220.747 billion; Services: 53.768 billion)

Cost of sales: 169.559 billion
(Products: 151.286 billion; Services: 18.273 billion)

Net income: 57.411 billion

Earnings per share, diluted: $3.28
Shares used in computing earnings per share, diluted: 17.528 million Dividends and dividend equivalents declared per share: $0.795 Total shareholders’ equity: 65.339 billion

Net sales by category: iPhone: $ 137.781 billion Mac $ 28.622 billion iPad: $ 23.724 billion Wearables, Home and Accessories: $ 30.620 billion Services: $53.768 billion

Wearables, Home and Accessories net sales include sales of AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats products, HomePod, iPod touch and Apple-branded and third-party accessories. Services net sales include sales from the Company’s advertising, AppleCare, digital content and other services.

Net sales by reportable segment:
Americas: $ 124.556 billion Europe (includes India, the Middle East and Africa): $ 68.640 billion Greater China (includes China mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan): $ 40.308 billion Japan: $ 21.418 billion Rest of Asia Pacific: $ 19.593 billion

Symbol: AAPL (Apple Inc. Common Stock) Market cap: $2.093 trillion Price: $ 125 Earnings per share (last four quarters): $ 4.46 P/E Ratio: 28

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