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The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2,000 public companies in the world by Forbesmagazine. The ranking is based on a mix of four metrics: sales, profit, assetsand market value.^[1] The list has been published since 2003.

The Forbes Global 2000 is a useful indicator of which are the leading public companies in the world, but it is only an interpretation, as only public companies are listed. The results are not definitive; any change to the criteria would produce a different list.

2019 listEdit

In 2019, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:^[2]

Rank	Company	Headquarters	Industry	Sales (billion $)	Profits (billion $)	Assets (billion $)	Market value (billion $)
1	Industrial and Commercial Bank of China	Beijing	Banking, financial services	175.9	45.2	4034.5	305.1
2	JPMorgan Chase	New York	Banking, financial services	132.9	32.7	2737.2	368.5
3	China Construction Bank	Beijing	Banking, financial services	150.3	38.8	3382.4	225
4	Agricultural Bank of China	Beijing	Banking, financial services	137.5	30.9	3293.1	197
5	Bank of America	Charlotte	Banking, financial services	111.9	28.5	2377.2	287.3
6	Apple	Cupertino	Computing	261.7	59.4	373.7	961.3
7	Ping An Insurance Group	Shenzhen	Insurance	151.8	16.3	1038.3	220.2
8	Bank of China	Beijing	Banking, financial services	126.7	27.5	3097.6	143
9	Royal Dutch Shell	The Hague	Oil & Gas	382.6	23.3	399.2	264.9
10	Wells Fargo	San Francisco	Banking, financial services	101.5	23.1	1887.8	214.7

Forbes' ranking of the world's largest public companies in 2019, account for more than $40 trillion in annual revenue and upwards of $186 trillion in global assets

2018 listEdit

In 2018, the ten largest companies as calculated by this method were:^[3]

Rank	Company	Headquarters	Industry	Sales (billion $)	Profits (billion $)	Assets (billion $)	Market value (billion $)
1	Industrial and Commercial Bank of China	Beijing	Banking, financial services	165.3	43.7	4210.9	311
2	China Construction Bank	Beijing	Banking, financial services	143.2	37.1	3631.6	261.2
3	JPMorgan Chase	New York	Banking, financial services	118.2	26.5	2609.8	387.7
4	Berkshire Hathaway	Omaha	Conglomerate	235.2	39.7	702.7	491.9
5	Agricultural Bank of China	Beijing	Banking, financial services	129.3	29.6	3439.3	184.1
6	Bank of America	Charlotte	Banking, financial services	92.2	16.6	2196.8	231.9
7	Wells Fargo	San Francisco	Banking, financial services	103.0	21.7	1915.4	265.3
8	Apple	Cupertino	Computing	247.5	53.3	367.5	926.9
9	Bank of China	Beijing	Banking, financial services	118.2	26.4	3204.2	158.6
10	Ping An Insurance Group	Shenzhen	Insurance	141.6	13.9	1066.4	181.4

As a group, the Forbes Global 2000 in year 2018 accounts for $39.1 trillion in sales, $3.2 trillion in profit, $189 trillion in assets and $56.8 trillion in market value

By countryEdit

Rank	Country	Companies
1	United States(Including Puerto Rico)	535****
2	China (Including Hong Kong)	315***
3	Japan	225**
4	United Kingdom(including BOTS)	95**
5	Germany(Including Liechtenstein)	95**
6	France(Including DOM-TOM)	90**
7	India	75***
8	South Korea	65**
9	Canada(Excluding Québec)	45*
10	Indonesia	40*
11	Saudi Arabia	35*
12	Australia	35**
13	Sweden	20**
14	Italy	20*
15	Russia