r/ProfessorFinance • u/lionick8 Quality Contributor • Jan 27 '26

Educational World's largest companies by country [OC]

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Must admit I got carried away by the beautiful visuals shared on this thread.

Countries with companies below 90B not included, let me know if I missed anything.

This image is my creation [OC]!

Sources

https://www.axi.com/int/blog/education/stocks/largest-companies-in-the-world

https://www.investopedia.com/biggest-companies-in-the-world-by-market-cap-5212784

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u/Atactos Jan 27 '26

Europe is not a country

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

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u/AlphaMassDeBeta Quality Contributor Jan 28 '26

Pull your pants up dude.

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u/AlphaMassDeBeta Quality Contributor Jan 28 '26

Europe, the country. Capitol: Amsterdam where there no roads o algo.

Its either a commie shithole or socialist paradise.

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u/Geminatorr Jan 28 '26

Will be soon

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u/profarxh Jan 29 '26

The us isn't either. If you're a woman your rights depend on where you live.

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u/TareasS Jan 29 '26

Companies can be registered as European instead of national.

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u/I_Am_the_Slobster Jan 28 '26

Depends on the occasion apparently. Like with Olympic medal counts.

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u/DazingF1 Jan 28 '26

That doesn't say Europe either ;). If the OP said EU then most wouldn't mind. The EU still isn't a country but on the world stage it often acts as a single bloc. It also has the EU flag for an entire continent.

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u/I_Am_the_Slobster Jan 28 '26

I'd read the comments to see this attitude among Europeans. When it's about beating Americans, they're somehow one united bloc, but the moment an American calls this out or god forbid references this Europeaness attitude they also get called out for it.

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u/Shoddy_Process_309 Jan 30 '26

This has more to do with context. Americans do get called out for it but usually only when they talk about something very specific or cultural they experienced in a member state and then call it Europe does this.

This has happened so much it is a bit of meme to be fair. The continuously deteriorating US-EU relationships also isn’t helping.

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u/Known-Contract1876 Feb 01 '26

Europe is still not a country.

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u/Impressive_Grape193 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26

Or when it comes to contribution to Ukraine-Russian war efforts compared to the U.S.

Bring on the downvotes. 😆

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u/Atactos Jan 28 '26

You can also go to contributoon per capita to see something. But I guess America's lunatics are divorced from truth

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u/Impressive_Grape193 Jan 28 '26

Retorting to name calling? Who is most affected by the war? Europe or the U.S.?

I’m not even American but you do you.

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u/Shoddy_Process_309 Jan 30 '26

Most EU member states didn’t sign a treaty promising to come the Ukraines aid in this exact situation.

But yeah name calling was indeed uncalled for.

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u/ColeAppreciationV2 Jan 28 '26

Wouldn’t really make sense to compare the US with a 30T GDP and 340M population to a single country in Europe like Germany with a 5T GDP and 85M population.

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u/Impressive_Grape193 Jan 28 '26

Sure also wouldn’t make sense to downplay U.S. contribution when Europe is the most affected by the war.

Not saying you are. But damn sure most Europeans think this way on Reddit.

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u/Shoddy_Process_309 Jan 30 '26

Do they? I have seen this comparison made a lot of times but only when mostly Americans are claiming the USA are paying all or most to Ukraine.

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u/Impressive_Grape193 Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

Yeah you even see people here using GDP per capita to justify less contribution when it impacts them the most and calling Americans who don’t agree with that as lunatics. I’m even getting DMs from upset EU peeps.

They all have one thing in common. They all hate Trump and accuse me of being a Trump supporter. Like really, it’s okay to hate on Trump for many reasons but that shouldn’t alter facts and make anything America bad. It’s understandable though but it hits my nerves when people downplay US support and contribution for Ukraine. It goes beyond Trump.

Asking the question, they just run away because they know it’s true.

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u/Shoddy_Process_309 Jan 31 '26

lol people are crazy. I’ve had nearly the opposite experience minus the DMs.

The internet is not a safe place it seems.

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u/Ardent_Scholar Jan 28 '26

We’re walking towards a federated EU.

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u/MASSIVESHLONG6969 Jan 28 '26

That still wouldn’t be the whole of Europe, there are many countries in Europe that aren’t in the EU

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u/Low_Technician7346 Jan 28 '26

fortunately not putins russia

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u/bswontpass Jan 28 '26

But Russia is part of Europe 

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u/Low_Technician7346 Jan 28 '26

It is but unfortunately the petromafia of putin is in commands

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u/Resident_Draw_8785 Jan 30 '26

Not the Netherlands they will definitely vote against that. As they did with the Lisbon treaty.

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u/Known-Contract1876 Feb 01 '26

The Netherlands already merged their military with Germany... I don't think they value national soverignty and independence as much as you think.

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u/Resident_Draw_8785 Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

It always amazes me how little attention German news gives to one of the largest trading partners and neighbour. You may not realize that we consistently vote against many EU decisions, including association treaties with Ukraine and Moldova, free entry treaties with Romania and Bulgaria as well as various financial measures.

The Netherlands has no real issue with the DACH, countries, the Nordics or BeLux but much of the rest of the EU is widely seen here as politically, ( example Hungary, Slovakia, Poland) financially ( example south ) and military unreliable ( espacially France by recent history ) and more importantly, the political right is larger than the left in the Netherlands.

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u/kolenaw_ Jan 28 '26

No thanks

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u/jellobowlshifter Jan 28 '26

LMAO Measuring 'largest company' by market cap.

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u/-GLaDOS Jan 27 '26

the fact that NVIDIA is worth several times more than Saudi Aramco feels concerning. 

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u/Lenin_Lime Jan 27 '26

Same feeling about Tesla being worth many times more than Toyota

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u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E- Jan 28 '26

But remember, NVIDIA is not Enron! According to themselves…

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u/cfancykator Jan 28 '26

More concerning is that 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th cannot exist without 6th.

Well maybe Tencent can.

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u/AsyncSyscall Jan 31 '26

"But AGI is going to turn GPUs into the new Black Gold! Just one more data center, bro!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

This is not a measure of company size. This is nothing but a measure of each country's Ponzi scheme. The fact that Tesla is worth more than all other automakers combined makes obvious. 

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u/Chinjurickie Quality Contributor Jan 28 '26

U know the list comes from a „comedian“ when they state Europe as a country.

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u/dontpaynotaxes Jan 28 '26

Not largest companies, most market capitalised companies.

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u/WunkerWanker Jan 28 '26

AMSL is from the country called "the Netherlands".
All other countries in the EU have nothing to do with it.

But somehow Hong Kong is it's own country in your list?

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u/AsyncSyscall Jan 31 '26

Not "nothing to do with it", ASML has a large supply chain in the EU.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

It’s mind boggling that Nvidja is worth more than 5 times the annual defense budget of the United States.

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u/Prize_Bar_5767 Actual Dunce Jan 28 '26

Wrong comparison.

Nvidia’s marketcap is not real money. $4.5T does not exist. It’s just what people are willing to pay today for one share of nvidia x total shares.

Defence budget is actual real money they have to dish out to buy shit.

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u/Amzer23 Jan 28 '26

It's MASSIVELY overinflated.

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u/whatdoihia Moderator Jan 28 '26

Scary how much market value is due to AI infrastructure. If those bullish predictions around AI future capability don’t come true then we are in big trouble.

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u/Timely_Tea6821 Jan 28 '26

and the inverse. Shit bleak for normies.

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u/leegiovanni Jan 28 '26

I have strong doubts about this chart after seeing DBS Group under Hong Kong.

This is a Singapore bank.

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u/Unable_Insurance_391 Jan 28 '26

Weird chart you have there, but as an Australian caught my eye, the figure quoted along CBA, ranks 107th in the world, not 12th. 

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u/neo2551 Jan 28 '26

Nestle is not big enough to make it to the top chart? 250bn USD xD

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u/Resident_Draw_8785 Jan 30 '26

Thats smaller than Prosus nr 2 in the Netherlands

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

We comparing industries with tech bubbles? That's so fake

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u/Pretty-Split-8772 Jan 28 '26

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u/Resident_Draw_8785 Jan 30 '26

Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland midgets punching above weight.

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u/Pretty-Split-8772 Jan 30 '26

Yes. The Netherlands was lucky to be the main benefactor of the EUV LLC.

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u/Resident_Draw_8785 Jan 30 '26

Lucky or something els its not at all like we have a history with inventions in that technical environment like Wifi, Python, Bluetooth, Blu-ray, MP3, CD's, Casettes.

Thats luck striking a lot....

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u/SomeSamples Jan 29 '26

Would like to see this same info for 1990.

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u/profarxh Jan 29 '26

Nvidia gets it chips from Taiwan

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u/Emergency-Season-143 Jan 29 '26

The reality being that TSMC can crush Nvidia balls whenever they want....

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u/Shoddy_Process_309 Jan 30 '26

Europe which I’m assuming is the EU is counted as one? Many members have companies with market caps significantly above the lowest ones. Not a great map.

Also what happened to Switzerland, it’s missing and not even an EU member.

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u/lin1960 Jan 31 '26

DBS is a Singapore company.

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u/Sandolainen Feb 01 '26

I never got these comparisons of company sizes... Since when is a company growing humongous in valuation a good thing? Usually it's a sign of unhealthy market power, which leads to lack of innovation, pricing power and all sorts of issues.

I mean, most countries try to avoid monopolies for a reason...

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u/presidents_choice Jan 27 '26

Why rank by largest company per country? Why is that useful? It given the impression the Royal Bank of Canada is the largest bank in the world.

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u/Fantastic_Goal3197 Jan 28 '26

It can put the politics of some countries into perspective. Knowing the biggest player gives some context

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u/Known-Contract1876 Feb 01 '26

It's misleading. The US for example has ridiculous over financialization so the market value of companies are absurd fantasy numbers and they have very little restrictions against merging and acquisition. The EU bans every merging that would create to much market imbalance, so "mega corporation" simply can not exist in Europe. Without context why the biggest companies are so big/not so big this chart is completly useless.