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The American edition Forbes presented a fresh rating of the 2000 largest public companies in the world. Most of them are in the US and China. There are no Ukrainian companies in the rating.https://www.blogger.com

Total in the list of corporations from 58 countries, the total revenue is more than $ 35 trillion, net profit - $ 2.5 trillion. At the same time, their assets are valued at $ 169.1 trillion and capitalization is $ 48.8 billion. Most of the companies in the rating are from the USA: there are 565 on the list. Another 263 represent China.

In the list - almost entirely banks:

ICBC - China

China Construction Bank - China

Berkshire Hathaway - United States

JPMorgan Chase - United States

Wells Fargo - USA

Agricultural Bank of China - China

Bank of America - USA

Bank of China - China

Apple - United States

Toyota Motor - Japan

The place on the list is determined by four indicators: revenue, net profit, assets, and capitalization. Thanks to this, Chinese banks, whose assets are estimated at trillions of dollars (at the expense of thousands of branches throughout the country), rank higher than Facebook or Amazon.

Of the technological high places are Samsung (15), Microsoft (19), Alphabet (24), IBM (43), Intel (54), Amazon (83) and Facebook (119).

Recall, previously Forbes published a rating of the world's richest people. Bill Gates, who invariably holds the first line for many years, even shared a couple of tips with alumni.

The American edition of the Forbes edition traditionally marks the rating of the richest people on the planet on March 20. And for a year already the first place in it is occupied by the founder of Microsoft, and also the largest philanthropist of the world - Bill Gates. In general, in the first ten, half of the participants earned their money on technology and telecom.

According to the publication, in 2016 the list of the world's richest people, whose fortune exceeds a billion dollars, first grew beyond two thousand people. Now there are 2,043 billionaires in the world, whereas last year there were "only" 1810. And this is in view of the fact that 78 people from the list were dropped. There has never been such a big leap. The general state of billionaires has grown to $ 7.67 trillion. This is also a record. By the way, most of all new billionaires got China - 76 people at once. In the second place, the US - 25 people, whose bank account exceeded the number of 9 zeros.

Despite the active development of modern businesses (like Snapchat), young billionaires are very few - only 56 people to 40 years old. And only four little more than twenty years. All the rest are much older.

The top ten billionaires are as follows:

Bill Gates. The state is $ 86 billion. The main source of wealth is Microsoft.

Warren Buffett. The state is $ 75.6 billion. The main source of wealth is Berkshire Hathaway / investment.

Jeff Bezos. The state is $ 72.5 billion. The main source of wealth is Amazon.

Amancio Ortega. The state is $ 71.6 billion. The main source of wealth is the Inditex Group (many are known for the Zara brand/clothing).

Mark Zuckerberg. The state is $ 56.4 billion. The main source of wealth is Facebook.

Carlos Slim Elu. The state is $ 54.5 billion. The main source of wealth is telecom.

Larry Ellison. The state is $ 52.2 billion. The main source of wealth is Oracle.

Charles Koch. The state is $ 48.3 billion. The main source of wealth is Koch Industries (a conglomerate of companies).

David Koch. The state is $ 48.3 billion. The main source of wealth is Koch Industries.

Michael Bloomberg. The state is $ 47.5 billion. The main source of wealth is Bloomberg / a media company.

Over the past year, billionaires from the top ten have increased their fortunes by more than $ 100 billion: Jeff Bezos + $ 27 billion, Warren Buffett - $ 14.5 billion, and Bill Gates - $ 11 billion.

Earlier, the editorial board of AIN.UA published a selection of books, which, according to Bill Gates, everyone should read. Not the fact that this will help you earn your billion. But the richest man in the world already does not advise a bad year.

American Forbes has prepared its annual rating of the world's 2,000 largest public companies. In its calculations, Forbes equally took into account the four indicators: revenue, profit, asset size, and market capitalization.

The total figures of those who were on the fresh list over the past year have increased noticeably. Together, the rating participants generated $ 32 trillion in revenue ($ 2 trillion in growth), while the total profit was $ 2.4 trillion vs. $ 1.4 trillion a year earlier. The assets of the 2000 largest corporations Forbes estimated at $ 138 trillion, and the total capitalization - at $ 38 trillion.

The largest representation is still in the US, which has been delegated to the list of 536 companies. The American leadership does not cause any questions so far: from the main competitor - Japan - 260 companies were included in the rating. In addition, if in the first hundred American companies took just 28 places, then the Japanese only five. In this case, the largest of them - Nippon Telegraph & Tel - located only in 48th place. The United States and Japan are followed by China (121 companies), Canada (67 companies) and South Korea (61 companies).

Dominant in the rating are representatives of the financial sector (480 companies). Huge assets, of course, their main trump card. The oil and gas companies are lagging behind - they ranked 127. In terms of profit growth, insurance companies rank first (624%), semiconductor producers (45%), revenue growth (57%) in terms of capitalization growth.

On the first line of the rating for the second year in a row is the bank, JPMorgan Chase. For the year, JPMorgan slightly improved its results: revenue was $ 115.48 billion ($ 115.63 billion - last year), profit of $ 17.37 billion ($ 11.65 billion), assets $ 2117 billion ($ 2031 billion), capitalization $ 182.21 billion ($ 166.19 billion a year ago). At the same time, these indicators cannot be called outstanding - these are not the only ones that JPMorgan gets even in the top 10.

The second place is now occupied by HSBC. To rise from the eighth line to the British bank was helped by the rapid growth of profits: from $ 5.83 billion to $ 13.3 billion. The United States corporation, General Electric, is once again the unconditional leader. GE's revenue for the year declined from $ 156.78 billion to $ 150.21 billion, and the value of assets from $ 781 billion to $ 751 billion.

Then follows three oil companies: ExxonMobil (the world leader in capitalization - $ 407.2 billion), the Dutch Shell and the Chinese PetroChina. ICBC, the largest Chinese bank, takes the 7th place: with revenue of $ 69.19 billion, ICBC's profit was $ 18.84 billion. The top ten is the Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway investment fund, the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil and the Citigroup bank.

The number of Russian companies on the list decreased by two - to 26. The first hundred managed to break through three: Gazprom (15th), Lukoil (71st) and Rosneft (77th). Gazprom, in addition, was the third company in terms of profit - $ 25.72 billion. More than the Russian gas giant earned only ExxonMobil ($ 30.46 billion) and Nestle ($ 36.65 billion).