| rank |
corporation |
market value (billion US$) |
| 2004-02-13 |
2005-02-28 |
2006-02-28 |
| 1. |
Exxon Mobil Corporation (USA)
|
277.02 |
405.25 |
362.53 |
| 2. |
General Electric (USA)
|
328.54 |
372.14 |
348.45 |
| 3. |
Microsoft (USA)
|
287.02 |
273.75 |
279.02 |
| 4. |
Citigroup (USA)
|
255.30 |
247.66 |
230.93 |
| 5. |
BP (UK)
|
173.54 |
231.88 |
225.93 |
| 6. |
Royal Dutch Shell plc (UK)
|
163.45 |
221.49 |
203.52 |
| 7. |
Procter & Gamble (USA)
|
131.89 |
133.92 |
197.12 |
| 8. |
HSBC Group (UK)
|
177.96 |
186.74 |
193.32 |
| 9. |
Pfizer (USA)
|
285.27 |
197.99 |
192.05 |
| 10. |
Wal-Mart Stores (USA)
|
243.74 |
218.56 |
188.86 |
| 11. |
Saudi Basic Industries (Saudi Arabia)
|
- |
- |
184.73 |
| 12. |
Gazprom (Russia)
|
- |
- |
184.37 |
| 13. |
Bank of America (USA)
|
117.55 |
188.77 |
184.17 |
| 14. |
Toyota Motor (Japan)
|
115.40 |
140.89 |
175.54 |
| 15. |
American International Group (USA)
|
194.87 |
173.99 |
172.24 |
| 16. |
PetroChina (China)
|
- |
- |
172.23 |
| 17. |
Johnson & Johnson (USA)
|
160.96 |
194.68 |
171.51 |
| 18. |
Total S.A. (France)
|
116.64 |
151.13 |
154.74 |
| 19. |
Altria Group (USA)
|
111.02 |
134.75 |
149.57 |
| 20. |
GlaxoSmithKline (UK)
|
124.79 |
140.39 |
147.42 |
| 21. |
JPMorgan Chase (USA)
|
81.94 |
129.98 |
144.13 |
| 22. |
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (Japan)
|
- |
- |
143.01 |
| 23. |
Berkshire Hathaway (USA)
|
- |
- |
133.67 |
| 24. |
Roche Group (Switzerland)
|
95.38 |
107.99 |
127.51 |
| 25. |
Chevron Corporation (USA)
|
92.49 |
131.52 |
126.80 |
| 26. |
International Business Machines (IBM) (USA)
|
171.54 |
152.76 |
126.74 |
| 27. |
Novartis (Switzerland)
|
116.43 |
122.07 |
125.73 |
| 28. |
Cisco Systems (USA)
|
166.09 |
112.60 |
124.52 |
| 29. |
Intel (USA)
|
196.87 |
149.39 |
121.19 |
| 30. |
Sanofi-aventis (France)
|
114.86 |
113.15 |
119.37 |
| 31. |
Vodafone Group (UK)
|
174.61 |
170.29 |
115.44 |
| 32. |
ENI (Italy)
|
76.13 |
104.71 |
114.42 |
| 33. |
Nestlé (Switzerland)
|
106.55 |
108.04 |
113.92 |
| 34. |
BHP Billiton (Australia/UK)
|
57.43 |
91.94 |
109.13 |
| 35. |
Wells Fargo (USA)
|
97.53 |
100.46 |
107.80 |
| 36. |
Google (USA)
|
- |
- |
107.17 |
| 37. |
AT&T (USA)
|
- |
- |
107.04 |
| 38. |
Royal Bank of Scotland Group (UK)
|
90.21 |
108.95 |
106.41 |
| 39. |
UBS (Switzerland)
|
85.07 |
89.16 |
105.69 |
| 40. |
China Construction Bk (China)
|
- |
- |
104.98 |
| 41. |
Samsung Electronics (South Korea)
|
72.72 |
77.13 |
104.22 |
| 42. |
Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil (Brazil)
|
- |
- |
99.82 |
| 43. |
Coca-Cola (USA)
|
125.37 |
103.12 |
99.78 |
| 44. |
Pepsico (USA)
|
86.73 |
90.43 |
97.89 |
| 45. |
China Mobile (Hong Kong) (China)
|
- |
- |
96.89 |
| 46. |
Electricité de France (France)
|
- |
- |
94.94 |
| 47. |
Mizuho Financial Groep (Japan)
|
- |
- |
93.81 |
| 48. |
Al Rajhi Bank (Saudi Arabia)
|
- |
- |
93.64 |
| 49. |
Verizon Communications (USA)
|
103.97 |
99.64 |
93.18 |
| 50. |
Amgen (USA)
|
83.02 |
78.25 |
93.14 |
source: "Forbes2000", Forbes.com.
note: a billion translates to: 1,000,000,000.
note: Altria Group used to be Philip Morris; AT&T is a merger of the old AT&T with SBC.
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