US companies continue to dominate the top 100 most valuable listed corporations in the world, but there is one exception in the top ten
The hype about artificial intelligence (AI) has strengthened the position of US corporations on the stock exchanges. Apple is again at the top of the 100 most valuable listed companies in the world with a value of a good 3 trillion dollars as of June 30, according to an evaluation by the auditing and consulting company EY, which is available to the German Press Agency. Microsoft follows in second place with around 2.5 trillion dollars. At least two German companies made it back into the top 100.
The German software group SAP came in 71st place with a stock market value of 159 billion dollars (end of 2022: 106th place), Siemens climbed from 115th place to 91st place with a good 132 billion dollars has its headquarters in Ireland, took 57th place. At the end of last year, Germany was not even among the top 100.
With the exception of the Saudi oil company Saudi Aramco, the ten highest-rated companies are headquartered in the United States, according to EY. These include tech giants such as Google parent company Alphabet, online giant Amazon, chipmaker Nvidia and Facebook group Meta.
“The current AI boom shows it very clearly: Once again, it is primarily US companies that are benefiting from a new megatrend on the stock exchanges and are gaining in importance,” explained Henrik Ahlers, CEO of EY in Germany. US companies account for $24 trillion of the total value of the top 100 corporations of $34.4 trillion.
Source: Stern
