What are the companies that capitalize the most in the world? The list of companies with highest market value in the world is dominated by North America , with Apple currently at top of this prestigious list . The Statista infographic compares Apple against the rest of the world to compare how companies around the globe compare to the tech giant.
Apple wins hands down , but the interesting part is how far the most valuable companies on each continent stand out when comparing market capitalization data .
The strongest contender is in Asia : Saudi Aramco , aka Saudi Arabian Oil Company, has a market capitalization of 1.98 trillion (1980 billion) dollars at the beginning of February 2022, or 69.5 per cent of Apple's 2.85 trillion dollars . From then on, the battle becomes one-sided. The next opponent is in Europe, with the luxury conglomerate LVMH having a market capitalization of 408 billion dollars which is however only the 14.3% of the Cupertino company.
There are no opponents in the world. In Oceania, Melbourne-based mining company BHP has a market capitalization equivalent to 8.5% of that of Apple , while Petrobras from South America only reaches 3% . Despite being the most valuable public company in Africa, the market capitalization of the South African publishing house Naspers is only 1.2% of the nearly 3 trillion attributed to Apple Inc.
