It seems like the most valuable companies should be those whose products and services we use on a near - daily basis . And accord to Forbes ’s most recent list , they are : The top five highest - valued stain in the reality areApple , Google , Microsoft , Amazon , and Facebook .
The annual subject area is based on a complex mixture of metric that cover revenue and net income , tax rates , cost - to - net profit ratio , and capital use . Since the data is from 2017 to 2019 , the leaning does n’t mull over how thecoronavirus pandemichas affected the companies in query . That say , it does reflect what many have long assume : that Big Tech is run laps around all the other industries . The top five are all considered engineering society , as are four others in the top 20 ( Samsung , Intel , Cisco , and Oracle ) . Other company are n’t in thetechnologycategory , but they own moneymaking offshoot that are . Disney , in 7th topographic point with an estimated value of $ 61.3 billion , fall under the “ leisure ” umbrella — butDisney+itself would likely be distinguish “ applied science . ” ( Netflixis . )
The tilt is n’t completely devoid of time - test classic that do n’t involve software system or hardware . Coca - Colaedged out Disney by about $ 3 billion to take sixth place;Toyotaplaced 11th with a mark value of $ 41.5 billion ; andMcDonald’sjust cracked the top 10 with $ 46.1 billion . Louis Vuitton , Nike , andWalmartall also made the top 20 .
Just because a brand rate high on this year ’s list does n’t of necessity mean it ’s doing well ( and vice versa ) . Facebook , for example , suffer a 21 - percent decrement in brand note value compared to Forbes ’ 2019 leaning — the largest loss of all 200 companies include in the study . Netflix’sbrand value , on the other hand , jumped a astonishing 72 percent from 2019 to 2020 . With an estimated $ 26.7 billion note value , it still miss the top 20 by six spots .
See Forbes ’s top 20 below , and check out the full listhere .
[ h / tForbes ]
