Ranked: The 20 Biggest Tech Companies by Market Cap

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Ranked: The 20 Biggest Tech Companies by Market Cap

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The world’s 20 biggest tech companies are worth over $20 trillion in total. To put this in perspective, this is nearly 18% of the stock market value globally.

This graphic shows which companies top the ranks, using data from Companiesmarketcap.com.

A Closer Look at The Top 20

Market capitalization (market cap) measures what a company is worth by taking the current share price and multiplying it by the number of shares outstanding. Here are the biggest tech companies according to their market cap on June 13, 2024.

RankCompanyCountry/RegionMarket Cap 1AppleU.S.$3.3T 2MicrosoftU.S.$3.3T 3NvidiaU.S.$3.2T 4AlphabetU.S.$2.2T 5AmazonU.S.$1.9T 6MetaU.S.$1.3T 7TSMCTaiwan$897B 8BroadcomU.S.$778B 9TeslaU.S.$582B 10TencentChina$453B 11ASMLNetherlands$415B 12OracleU.S.$384B 13SamsungSouth Korea$379B 14NetflixU.S.$281B 15AMDU.S.$258B 16QualcommU.S.$243B 17SAPGermany$225B 18SalesforceU.S.$222B 19PDD Holdings (owns Pinduoduo)China$212B 20AdobeU.S.$206B

Note: PDD Holdings says its headquarters remain in Shanghai, China, and Ireland is used for legal registration for its overseas business.

Apple is the largest tech company at the moment, having competed with Microsoft for the top of the leaderboard for many years. The company saw its market cap soar after announcing its generative AI, Apple Intelligence. Analysts believe people will upgrade their devices over the next few years, since the new features are only available on the iPhone 15 Pro or newer.

Microsoft is in second place in the rankings, partly thanks to enthusiasm for its AI software which is already generating revenue. Rising profits also contributed to the company’s value. For the quarter ended March 31, 2024, Microsoft increased its net income by 20% compared to the same quarter last year.

Nvidia follows closely behind with the third-highest market cap, rising more than eight times higher compared to its value at the start of 2023. The company has recently announced higher profits, introduced

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