World's Most Valuable Companies

RD Shell is Anglo-Dutch.

19/26 it's in USA. Lol. USA is not center of the world !!!

Remember its the world's third largest country by population, and largest fully developed country by quite a margin (Japan and being about a third the population and Germany a little over a 4th). A lot of China's industry is state owned, or i'd expect to see far more than two companies on this list. By 2067 though, i'd expect perhaps more China as the People's Republic develops and shifts towards a more market based economy and certainly more India.

It's funny how completely beaten down the rest of the world's self-esteem has been the last 70 years that this is the best they can come up with for a brag. "The entire rest of the world accounts for 20% of the value of this list! Suck it USA!!"

nope, the center of the world is in the core. on a map, it's in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, right off the coast of Africa. it's where the equator and prime meridian meet. (equatorial guinea is very close to this.)

well, switzerland has 3 on the list which is roughly 100 times per capita ;-)

"Not counting state-owned entities" ... okay so that's why Saudi Aramco is not on here. Far and away #1.

Still #1, but maybe no longer "far and away," with Apple now at 1 trillion and Saudi Aramco at 1.2 trillion, according to Wikipedia.

If you include the value of the untapped resources the company controls then it's still far and away. Several trillion dollars in oil still underground.

3 companies from our smaaaall Switzerland :)

Something to yodel about, for sure.

I don't know, Pharley. Since that's all I ever see you do (now cutting and pasting the same irrelevant and spiteful remark in multiple places, none of which make sense) why don't you tell us why you do it?

I'm not carrying around any misguided spite toward joe... the comment was not meant to be an attack against him the way that yours is meant to be against me. And when the comment you are plagiarizing and pasting all over the site was directed at diva, it was because of the spite he was exhibiting in his own comments toward me. It made sense to point it out there. It's hypocritical for you to pretend I'm guilty of the same here, when I'm not, and you are. Additionally, the comment I made is relevant. Yodeling is something they do in Switzerland. The comment is purposeful- its purpose is to make people laugh. Your comment, and the comment I was originally responding to (on a separate quiz ages ago), are neither of those things.

I don't expect that this will stop you. If you were self-aware and perceptive enough for this to work then you wouldn't be repeatedly spamming the site with the same comment in the first place.

Pharley: I thought "Something to yodel about..." regarding a comment bragging about Switzerland was kind of funny, actually, and certainly apropos. I think he was just trying to be clever. Lighten up.

Pharley chill out bro. Kalbahamut is just doing some good old comedy.

Can't Yodel in Switzerland no more. It's a Liverpudlian thing now.

Sad to see no British companies,we invent everything but can't sell it nearly as well as the Americans 😭

That's not entirely fair, though obviously the glory days are long gone. Problem is that many of the things that are invented by Brits don't get UK investment. The Dyson vacuum cleaner springs to mind. Successful British invention but James Dyson could only get initial investment from Japan. Then when production started in the UK it was using an American company I believe. Movies too (though not "inventions" exactly). Plenty of British properties, like Harry Potter, made into hugely successful films with largely British crew and cast, but the finance generally comes from the US so the profits go there.

Wow. Home Depot is way bigger than I thought. Also, though it makes sense now, when I was taking the quiz I could not for the life of me figure out what type of business the "Consumer" sector was.

Georgia country or Georgia state?

So Amazon is now more tech than retail?

I think it's filed under "tech" because it started as a website.