Top 10 Largest Companies by Market Cap (1979-2021)
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- This video will compare the largest companies in the world by market cap from 1979 to 2021.
Market capitalization is the market value of a publicly traded company, calculated by multiplying the share price by the number of total shares. Private companies are not included in this video.
Datasources: Forbes, Fortune500, YCharts, individual company’s annual reports
Music: Carnival Overture by Dvorak
This video will compare the largest companies in the world by market cap from 1979 to 2021. Enjoy!
Awesome keep it up
Note: “We want a video about the countries that have won the most Nobel Prize, and thank you
Excellent, and terrifying, video. Thank you for the musical choice. Orders of magnitude better than what one usually must mute on TH-cam.
Hi RankingCharts, could you share where this data is from?
You forgot Tesla is also a $1T company in 2021
please update :)
Until 2010: Oil and finance
After 2010: Tech
Saudi Aramco is an oil company but yea most of them are Tech
Oil and finance and telecommunications
And drugs and cigars
Shows China not very innovative😸😸😸
Because tech is the future and oil is slowly being replaced by non fossil fuels in many countries
Blown away how long it took for Apple to get to $1T, and then in like a year it was up to $2T
Just mindless zombies are willing to pay anything because they think apple is a status symbol
@Stu Marston I have an OPPO but I get what you're trying to say 😂
Welcome to "transitory" inflation.
@@Jay1787 That just means that they are really good at marketing.
@Stu Marston stick with your $999 mac pro wheels
I see that in 1987 Japanese companies really take off and dominate this list for a short while. I think this was preceeded by an agreement to devalue the dollar relative to other major currencies via the Plaza Accord of 1985. This is also shortly before there was an asset bubble in Japan which resulted in something like stagflation.
Obviously bcz of US policies in there...
the Plaza Accord was a very sinister move by the US that totally killed off the Japanese economy. Even till date its economy is still suffering from the aftermath.
@@riser7795 The same could be said for the US economy as jobs and manufacturing left the US to Japan, Hong Kong, the other Asian "Tiger" economies and most recently, China, throughout the 1990's to now.
@@riser7795 well, US was affected by the previous system and after 1985 as there was no need for usa to subsidize Japan due to cold war ending it was made equal.
@Arieta These figures are a bit dated (2017) but I think they are interesting nonetheless:
JAPAN DEBT VS GDP 236%
US DEBT VS GDP 103%
I'm sure given the recent spending of the past several years, this has changed significantly, especially for the USA. It reminds me of an old saying... "A rising tide does not lift all boats." If this is or is not true I do not know but I would bet a falling tide lowers them all.
Shell making sure the top 10 isnt just American companies for like half the video lol
Go Netherlands!!
@@fireshadowdark5462 British-Dutch
But what about BP?
@@aeroflura british
@@kreuger2027 I'd say that Dutch Royal Shell would be called Dutch-British more, unless you're talking about recent events
1984 was when AT&T was forced to break up their monopoly. Late 80s saw a massive boom in the Japanese economy, hence the sudden explosion of Japanese banks.
Countries that dominated the entire chart atleast once in this video -
1. USA
2. Japan
@Khabib Time yeah
japanese girls : h-hewwo 🥺ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
@@xxxstrawberrymilkxxx5981 Japanese girls are babe
China too
@@sgbuses41 booo
That brief moment in 2009-2011 where Petrobras made it to like #5, I was in Brazil. The economic and social environment was so different than what it was when I returned for a trip in 2019. It’s so insane how quickly and abruptly economic cycles take hold in Latin America. The relative prosperity that one company’s revenues managed to bring to a nation the size of Brazil, in two years, was palpable (the dollar was almost 1/1 against the real, and gas was super-cheap!), to then see that same population slipping into lower HDI and GDP indexes lower than before the 2010s, and gasoline going up to near American prices. Gnarly
Surges like that are generally indicative of shenanigans.
there's a reason why the U.S is such a world power. Americans know how to do business.
Gasoline is cheaper in the US than in Brazil today (March, 19th, 2022). In Brazil, 1 gallon of gas in around US$ 5.64. This is different of the American price of US$ 4.26.
Near American? We pay more for our gas than in the US, if you use the wages in Brazil as comparison. But about the rest, you are basically right, the 2010s were a lost decade and we are still trying to recover from it
@@caiomansourcastilho4614 Really, why do Brazilians pay so much for gas?
A shout-out to any American, Brit or Australian expats who lived in Japan through the 1980s-mid 1990s, in the financial sector. What a wild ride it was. Watching this video brings up more memories, feelings and emotions than any movie.
Nerd
What the fuck happened? I was in finance, and i know the general trend of japanese finance but ive never heard wbat happened in 89 to their financjal sector.
As a computer science major then, I took Japanese assuming it would be invaluable.
NARRATOR: It was not invaluable.
The gdp in Japan has been stagnant for over 30 years.
It's immigrants 😂
Don't have to use a fancy name
The momentum of Japan in the latter half of the 1980s was great. Currently, Toyota and Sony are the only Japanese companies in the top 100.
People really forget how crazy japans economy was back then. Literally was the only country to rival the US gdp in a 100+ years
@@JaKingScomez China rivals the US in GDP now. Though the Chinese are dirt poor on a person to person basis compared to Americans.
@@spartanparty3894 ehh 5-7 trillion off isnt really rival. Japan was less then 2 trillion away from surpassing the Us and people thought they would
And also company called keyence.
@@JaKingScomez Yeah but given inflation, 2 trillions in 1880s is basically 5-7 today
If anyone else was wondering about NTT:
“The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, commonly known as NTT, is a Japanese telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.” - wikipedia
Thank you
How the hell was it worth 250 billion dollars in 1988!!!
Japanese AT&T
@@danielnixon9614 it's mostly speculation because they made cellphones a lot more affordable and easy to use just like apple made smartphones.
NTTは、昔日本の国の会社だったんだよ。
今は民間だけど…
I love these videos. Fascinating.
Microsoft stays winning. Never left the top 10 when they hit it.
That's super impressive.
that’s crazy
They did for a short second
They have a monopoly on computer OS’s.
Even the current MS window is inferior product, but the consumers have no choice.
@@dislikebutton1799 Apple isn’t overpriced anymore though
Microsoft's consistency is amazing. Once they made it to this list, they stayed there.
The business world pretty much runs on Microsoft software.
Microsoft's monopoly is amazing. Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop held software progress back for two decades, and it enabled the disaster known as IE plus lead to the easy spreading of malware.
Bill Gates é reptiliano.
7:03 it’s all *AMERICA*
Well microsoft systems dominate the world
One thing I've learned from this is that USA is really good at producing hugely successful businesses. Amazing.
the reason is, americans live with big debts. they buy buy buy with credit debt and be slaves till life ends. + they are good at advertising pumping their stock. Look at tesla. sells dirt low cars and is worth more the severel biggest car companies world wide combined.
Yaa they make really good products
We just have a business friendly country. All other countries could do the same
@@yoopally4136 LOL yeah and almost no rights for workers.
So be "proud" of living in that country.
Thats more friendly to business than to its population.
@@dieterdietert7232 All countries have to go through a transition phase. The U.S had little workers rights when it was developing. A necessary step to be competative.
1986-93 you can really see the Japanese real estate bubble go full force
It popped in 1991.
I lived in Tokyo 84-88 and again 92-96. It was a wild ride. My rent was a roller coaster (I was paid in US dollars).
@@MyBelch my father also told me about this they used to live in Japan back then now we in us.
@@warzone669I remember in the late 80s they were always in the news and the dollar vs the yen was always compared. When the finance part came on most of all the talk had to do in the Japanese market. This was coming from American media sources.
The past 3-5 years show how overinflated the market really is.
Bubbly right 😣
Mind blowing. I think it will be time for a crash like 2008
@@rs3performance515 that's the thing. typically there was a recession every 7 years. We're overdue for 15 years. Something bad is going to happen big time, when? I don't know. One thing is for sure, western governments printed 40% of all currency in the history of humanity over the last 18-24 months to 'help' people during the grossly mismanaged pandemic. With economies at scale so large, it will take some time before the hyperinflation hits, but once it does, it'll be like the titanic hitting the iceberg.
How so?
@@BeedrillYanyan looks too me like big tops are in across the board. Monetary systems are getting found out
I once saw someone named Carlos Slim, a Mexican, be the richest man in the world in 2015, richer than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, he wasn't into oil so I dug deeper to see how he made his fortune. He owns a telecommunications company that sells pre-paid phone cards to people, he had 90% of Mexico's population using his phone carriers, so tens of millions of Mexicans were buying "talk time" phone cards every day. Now I know how he made his money.
Carlos Slim was also the majority shareholder of the New York Times. That's right, during the Trump Presidency when the left was screeching lies about foreign influence from Russia, one of the Democrat's largest media mouthpieces was essentially owned by a foreign national in Mexico. Now THAT is real foreign influence and the left made sure you knew nothing about it.
In the final moment, I see TSMC in the board. It's amazing and it stands for Taiwan!
Yeah not for so long... The current Taiwan government is busy transferring its production to the USA... I feel bad for the local Taiwanese, who only stand to lose in the long run
@@Madzguy007 you’re worry too much, TSMC just lunch it’s 3 nm mass production chip production lines in southern Taiwan last week, 12000 well trained engineers are working like right now!
That was super cool, thanks for putting it together.
You have a good taste in music
1982 IBM: we have the same market cap as Yugoslavia. 2022 IBM: We almost have the same market cap as Yugoslavia.
Dude really 😂😂😂
'2022 IBM: We almost have the same market cap as Yugoslavia' You mean 0$?
@@brb4903 that's the joke
@@brb4903 probably he knew some will take that joke seriously and that's why he put "almost". But you still showed up 🤣🤣
@@San_Deep2501 What's also funny is that it's still true (if we combine the former member states), despite there now being companies 10x the size.
(IBM's market cap today is $150B, which is about 75% the $200B GDP of Serbia + Croatia + Slovenia + Bosnia Herzegovina + North Macedonia + Montenegro)
Holy crap it was almost all Japanese companies in the 80s
@channelofstuff becoz of giant plaza act 🤡
@Sahil Singh just like us indians 🤡 who never takes criticism
@channelofstuff Yes, Japan just had banks in the top, obviously something wrong would occurs
@Sahil Singh what happen to Japan with the plaza accord is what every developing economy need to learn, lest the US tried to pull the same shit again.
Dont worry, USA know how to make him DOWN
Ahh that brief moment post GFC that Australia made it to no.4 with BHP Billiton due to the mining boom we had. Didn't realise how powerful they became at that time.
And ironically the vast majority of their growth in that period was China's economy accelerating like crazy.
To be fair, BHP is still the largest mining company in the world, and I believe Rio Tinto is still 2nd, so Australia is still a dominant player in mining.
I was half expecting to see game stop hop in for a split second lol
GE had a very good run under Jack Welch. The stock got as high as $180 a share. They did a 3/1 split and the shares were $60 each. By the time I retired in 2009 they were $42.50 (when I gave up and cashed in) and eventually got down to about $7 each.
He did that by chop shopping the company. Neutron Jack Welch destroyed every major company he has touched. Enriched himself in the short term by liquidating the long term assets of companies established by other, better, people.
@@Yaivenov You are so right. I heard that they called him Neutron Jack because he was like a bomb. When he dropped in nothing was left standing but the walls. Oddly enough I met him twice. Once when the annual shareholders meeting was held in our small town and he and his wife came out to the plant, and 2nd when we went to Fairfield Connecticut to present one of the "next best production ideas" to a team of CEOs.
@@CarolinaGirl-it5gl A bomb isn't a bad analogy but neutron radiation is just highly destructive even not as a bomb; it takes stable useful matter (companies) and makes it unstable and unusable.
Neutron Jack welched on his responsibility to the company.
Jack Welch sacrificed long-term growth for short-term profits and made a fortune for himself at the expense of shareholders years later (not to mention the catastrophic environmental damage). He's exactly what is wrong with the modern-day boardroom. No long-term outlook, cut everything and watch the number go up, then parachute away.
And all it cost was environmental pollution, public healthcare catastrophes, and thousands of lost jobs. Love capitalism!
Excellent work!!!
Impressed by the resilience of US economy. Plenty of new kids jumping all around it all the time.
@Naikomi I agree, the stock market valuation is speculative and isn't generally reflective of the real world performance.
Cool visual. Props to the data analyst and programmer who built this 👏
There is no programming lol. All they did was insert stock market data.
@@toddsecor288 Insert stock market data into what?
@@dashphonemail The market cap is simply the value of the companies stock.
I have no clue how the economy works but it’s sure cool seeing which businesses come out of no where!
Japan companies dominated in 80s
Yes but then America back on top 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Fun fact: TSMC is the most significant one on the list. If Taiwan is compromised, electronic devices will come to a halt.
TSMC need to replicate their operation in the USA, Apple should help them.
If TSMC is haulted then the USA, China or really any other economically stable country can just start producing them instead. Samsung already is trying to in the US.
@@thundurr Nobody can produce them which is why they're so valuable. The process is crazy. I'm sure this will change in the next few years tho. But yes luckily they're working with US to start producing them here
Its chinese not taiwan
@@thundurr rn only China can replicate what they do, they hold around 5-10% of the chip manufacturer share globally, TSMC holds the rest
This is so informative, you have done a truly excellent job, bravo!
7:39 hacker joins the chat🤣
Aramco was listed on the Saudi stock market in 2019
Only 4% of the company's value has been allocated
what? is this a joke?
Saudi Aramco is an Oil Company which is owned by the Saudi Government, that's why it is very rich
no one laughed kiddo
@@ziyad2554 I know that, that's why I said hacker joined the chat at they became the richest in a quick amount of time
Good to see Toyota up there. They actually make products at a fair price that people want.
@DigNap15 and all the profits and tax revenue back to Japan ... I am not happy to see that. America first.
@@Redridge07 maybe America shouldn’t make such shit cars then.
@@matthewmammothswine4395 American cars are very good, you are living 25 years in the past wtith the old statement.
@@Redridge07 Is that why Japanese and German cars make up nearly 70% of all cars sold on earth?
@@matthewmammothswine4395 real numbers: top auto producers by country
26M - China
9.2M - US
7.8M - Japan
4.4 M - India
3.4 M - S Korea
Since you logic is that the largest auto maker is the best auto maker .. then we should all be buying Chinese vehicles. Stop using sesame street logic.
I did enjoy! Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
Saudi Arabia just teleports to the finish line
I was thinking like where in the heck did this come from. Like overnight.
In 2019 they started to be traded on the Saudi stock exchange, thus giving it a market cap. That’s why this method isnt really the best for determining how big companies are, because a bigger company could be private and we would never see them on this chart
Came for the charts, stayed for the music
It's interesting how NTT really kicked off the Japanese bubble, it quickly grew to 3.5x the market cap of any stock before it, and then at the peak just as profits started getting pulled and market cap started diminishing, other Japanese stocks started entering the top ranks. It's as if they were pulling their profits and investing in the places pulled profits would go, most notably Japanese banks. Then nearly the whole way down, as NTT market cap was dwindling all these other Japanese stocks were growing at a nearly proportional rate to how fast NTT was shrinking until NTT hit like 70% loss and went under 100 billion then it was a race to the door.
NTT was literally a government owned company before it was made public and entered the stock market.
The reason it ‘shrank’ is because it’s job was to flash money throughout the Japanese economy, so it seems like it shrank but in reality it didn’t.
Lies again? Fox News Medical Certificates
I've been considering buying ETFs/SCHD stocks for retirement, I have set asides $100k but somewhere along the line, I get cold feet maybe because I'm a rookie and have no idea what I'm doing, please I could really use some guideline
You can buy dividend ETFs if you don't want to get into individual stocks. My favorite is SCHD. you can use a coach
@@alexbradbury5967 A coach sounds like a good idea, but how can I get a reliable one considering the nature of the market today?
@@lorihomer1721 VOO is your best reliable friend don't doubt it
Is there a site or tool to create these animation / charts. Got a work assignment and would be super cool to have one in there.
Great visual 👌 I really enjoyed this
1:37 You feel like the whole world economy is Japan's
1980 to 2015: "300 billion is a lot of money!" 2016 to 2022: "Hold my beer we're gonna hit warp speed"
Most informative video on TH-cam
TSMC
I'm proud to be a Taiwanese!
Unfortunately you might be forced to be Chinese in the near future.
笑死
@@erictsai4277 為什麼？我是臺美混血，雙重國籍，有問題嗎？
羨慕還是嫉妒？
@@Jacob.C.9397 他已经死了
@@xuexuejun3210 笑到死嗎？
I’m super liking this video out of the simple recognition of what a nightmare it must have been making it… props
Awesome. i like visualization
This is a great video but it cuts off in 2021. It would be super helpful if you could add a few more decades.
a few more decades? are you some kind of idiot? what other decade do you want?
It would be very helpful even if you just finished the 2020s
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for...
@rachealhubert74 That's actually quite impressive, I could use some Info on your FA, I am looking to make a change on my finances this year as well
@rachealhubert74 I will give this a look, thanks a bunch for sharing.
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Did you vote for Trump?….if not , you will get another chance
@@Amelia-Elizabethits a scam
In 2010s and beyond we say companies like Google/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon prove to us all that they are not just in the game for 1-2 specialized areas and can do it all. That diversification of business allowed them to thrive immensely
"I miss the 80s." -- Japan
ほんまにそれ笑
I'm 16 years old japanese and still feeling nostalgia for those days, good old days
It I don't miss the 80s and I don't think Japan does either but I think what we and Japan miss about the 80s solely lands on the AESTHETIC
これから日本はより衰退していくだろうが、生きている間にまた80年代のように優越感に浸りてぇなぁ
@@カップヘッド-i1n
Stupid Japanese,English please
Japan literally dominated the worlds economy only in 40 years after WW2 which is insane
And to think they lost the war. Japan is truly the most impressive nation IMO.
US became largest economy in the world just 114 years after being created. Thats most impressive@@jisooislove988
@jisooislove988 Nah obviously based on this video, USA is the most impressive nation.
@@jisooislove988Yes, mostly because of US effort to invest in Japanese company and the Cold War which boost Japanese industry. If the Cold War hadn’t exist, Japan would be a developing country even today.
@@보키더록which cold war ? .. south korea is also a product of proxy war between democratic and communist values
*FYI*
This list shown is about the total value of the stock for each company. Market Capitalization = Price of 1 share x Number of shares.
So if a company had 1 Million shares and the stock price for 1 share was $100, then their market capitalization would be $100 Million. Therefore, large companies that are privately and wholly owned aren't on this list. Two examples: Koch Brothers is a privately owned conglomerate that's huge but privately owned. Secondly, Saudi Aramco appeared on this list out of nowhere in 2019. This was because they were government-owned, but they had a stock initial public offering.
Oh, and also I initially screwed up thinking 'why is AT&T still on this list after 1984' - AT&T was broken up in 1984, but their Stock was still around....
Once again, W 🇺🇸
This shows the strength of US businesses in both staying power and comeback after lagging behind other companies. In the 2nd half of the 80s, Japan was dominating, then US companies started a tech renaissance and totally wiped out its electronic and hi tech businesses.
プラザ合意😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Japanese in 1987: TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!
The Japanese in 1992: Spare change, ma'am?
栄枯盛衰…いつかまた日本がバブルまではなくても良い好景気が来ることも願う…
少子化不可避 残念
バブルは弾けなければバブルではない！！
今度は弾けないように注意しようw
どのセクターなら復活の望みがあるかねえ。情報技術は完敗。ヘルスケアで強くなれると良いな。
Unfair agreement was forced to sign
Nah ur america dad will not let that happen again😂
Very remarkable that switzerland had 3 different companies in the top 10 at 3 different, coming from such a small country and market (9mil population only!)
that's what happens when you launder the worlds dirty money
@@finn6492 Explain what money laundering has to do with these companies? Btw, the biggest money launderers are the USA (Delaware, Vegas, South Dakota, etc.)
@@midas1929 What about the Jew money you stole?
Maybe he's suggesting that swiss investment funds who were invest in the swiss companies are full of proceeds from state crime from throughout history... And that's what the swiss economy is built on. @@midas1929
@midas1929 Loool, no dirty money goes to USA. The US Feds will be on you like a Hawk.
0:01 IBM 🇺🇲
0:14 AT&T🇺🇲
0:33 IBM🇺🇲
1:26 NTT🇯🇵
2:22 Altria🇺🇲
2:27 ExxonMobil 🇺🇲
2:38 General Electric 🇺🇲
3:30 Microsoft 🇺🇲
3:49 General Electric 🇺🇲
4:19 Microsoft 🇺🇲
4:22 General Electric 🇺🇲
4:48 ExxonMobil 🇺🇲
5:31 PetroChina 🇨🇳
5:38 ExxonMobil 🇺🇲
5:52 PetroChina 🇨🇳
5:59 ExxonMobil 🇺🇲
6:21 Apple 🇺🇲
7:40 Microsoft 🇺🇲
7:41 Saudi Aramco 🇸🇦
8:01 Apple 🇺🇲
I loved this! Educational and fun!
Hopefully correct as well! ;)
I didn’t know TSMC is this big! Kinda underestimated it
Nice animation. Almost forgot about how IBM dominated for so long.
Once upon a time, Japanese companies almost had occupied the whole list. I see why the US government waged the trade war against Japan at the time.
The US government will once again wage a trade war, against China.
I don't like the Chinese Communist Party, but the US government's approach is not fair.
This chart shows exactly where the bubbles are at a given time. Not some of the companies, but ALL of them, no matter where they’re from.
We are in a big bubble now apparently
That was well done. Thanks
Growth of Microsoft from 1995 is amazing
Even more so that of Apple.
Watched this in my economics class, we were cheering for America like it was a horse race
Why? Does your class earn anything when american companies do good?
@@Hubcool367 Because it's their country lol
@@Hubcool367 it’s called having pride in your country.
I don't like oil companies, but as a latino, I cheered for Brazil when Petrobras entered the top
@@Hubcool367 You have a problem with someone loving their country?
Super interesting to watch. Thx!
Wow! The US market (Dow) is around 40 years ahead of the german market (Dax) in terms of market cap.
Today, only SAP can be considered as big here in Germany.
Your giants are also 40 years old like volkswagen basf bayer imagine general electric exxon and ibm are still top American companies unbelievable. You are old country in every facet!
Too much socialism in Germany. Capitalism is always the best sytem for industry. 🇺🇸🦅
@@farzana6676 Yeah true. Our social market economy here is not formally anchored in our constitution, but elements of it are based on the constitution. So we will never have a free economy. This has advantages but also disadvantages.
Few weird things about this.
Firstly, "Shell Oil" and "Royal Dutch Shell" are shown as two companies. "Royal Dutch Shell" isn't the name of any company, the modern company is simply called Shell (changed in 2021), it formed from the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Logisitics in the early 1900s. It's also not Dutch, it's British - the Dutch part of the company became absorbed by the larger British half. Still, the "Royal Dutch" part doesn't indicate it's nationality - it's simply a legacy.
So are ExxonMobil and Mobil (Mobil merged with Exxon to form ExonMobil, they never existed at the same time).
Correct except for the fact that the Dutch part was the bigger one. Royal Dutch represented 60% and Shell transport and trading 40%
Exxon and Mobil did exist as different brands most of my life.
Altria and Phillip Morris?
1:57 Did you see that? Everything becomes red.
Wish the content creator continued these charts!
1:40 THAT is what I remember and why back then there was so much animosity toward Japanese companies at the time.
Microsoft grew relatively quickly after introducing Windows 10 (2015) then 11. As for Apple, more than enough people with more than enough lucre are more than willing enough to pay more than reasonable prices.
Analysts are predicting thanks to the AI stuff they might be the next 3 trillion dollar company.
@@ToxicCatt-y7caged well, apple has a market cap of 3.5 trillion now
Microsoft too has a market cap of 3 trillion
Apple wasn't even on the radar until 2010 and then came the iPhone. Jobs may not have gotten the Macintosh right, but he sure nailed that one.
Who else watched Apple rise and Microsoft drop like a stone and quoted the legendary, "...and it doesn't even have a keyboard!"
That 1987 stock market crash really hurt... OUCH!
FYI the reason AT&T went down the list was because the Federal government took them to court, won, and they were declared a monopoly. That's where all the Bell companies came from. I think AT&T then would be the same size as T-mobile, Verizon, and AT&T(today) combine
AT&T came back up after getting most of band back together minus Verizon (Bell Atlantic) portion.
The breakup of AT&T was mandated by the DOJ on 1/8/82; their official breakup day was New Year’s Day ‘84. Perfectly graphically illustrated.
Interestingly enough was how SBC acquired AT&T and shed the SBC name.
They would have been even Bigger. The breakup reduced their combined income because they couldn't charge $300/month for a landline anymore.
Ironic considering they let Microsoft just keep on with its literal monopoly.... at&t got screwed on that one.
Great video! Could be improved by adding company logos.
This could almost be used as indicator for macroeconomic shifts. Every time tech or banks show up in mass vs oil or heavy industrials it results in a crisis. Another interesting view would be to use inflation adjusted dollars.
Eh not always some of these such as att falling was due to gov intervention in the 1980s, creating the bell system, and gm fell not really due, and gm fell due to infighting with in the company and various projects being pushed back due to infighting and the billions they lost due to the new for 88 gm10 cars and ford being them to the punch with the taurus. So is can but there are outliers
7 out of 10 companies as of 2020 didn't exist 40 years ago.
Very cool to see this graphically… So well done !
Note to self: Buy NTT stock in 1985 if I ever travel back in time.
or just buy few dollars worth of bitcoin in 2010
Sad fact:Foreigners were barred from buying NTT shares during their rise (a move criticized by the US and UK media at the time).
Wtf top companies in 2021 are rich enough to be in the top 10 richest countries? Cant be possible
Not really. You are trying to compare market cap of companies (wealth) with GDP of countries (income). If you want an apple to apple comparison you should compare annual net income of companies with the annual GDP of countries. In that statistic, these companies are still quite a way off. Remember the wealth of countries far exceeds their GDP.
as one example, Apple's 2021 revenue was $365B, which would put it between the GDP of #31 Israel and #30 Nigeria
Amazing video, very inciteful. Although it also highlights the limited scope of Market Cap in assessing comany. For example black rock that is he control shareholder of 7 out of 10 of the top comoanies in the last few years of this diagram.
black rock isn't actually worth very much as a company thought. THEY don't own those companies, they manage accounts for a shitton of tiny investors who IN AGGREGATE are the biggest shareholder of 7 out of 10 of these companies. They're influential, but as a company they don't make much money for themselves.
Japan??? Wow I had no idea they had so many big companies back in the 80s
I was hoping to see my grandfather’s sweet shop and the list!
😝🙏🏼
It would have been if you didn't eat up all the profits. And you wonder why the scale screams when it sees you approaching it.
80's Japan was crazy
Wow 2020 sure was wild! I wonder if those numbers could be due to the largest transfer of wealth in the history of humanity!
Poor get poorer and the rich get richer… reminds me of a certain age in American history.
@jacobparish216 Yeah, kinda ironic considering Americans like to consider themselves the best country in the world, even though they're just the same as the rest of the world. I mean yeah we've invented a lot of things that revolutionized the world, but we're still not that different.
7:39 Reminds me of the time when I was a kid, and I showed up to a party where there was a squirtgun fight, and I brought my Super Soaker ZX2000 with a backpack tank of water, and all the other kids just had small, basic super soakers.
Sad for Japan
Japanese prefer that nothing stands out
1987-1991 japan dominated
I remember that era very well. They were all in the American news at that time. But in the early 90s the Yen didn’t do so well.
So difficult to believe that just 50 years after 2 atomic bombs were dropped, Japan had 8/10 companies in Top10
😲all America 😥finally …Taiwan's flag show up, TSMC No10 😊
It will be a history when the CHIP bill starts…
@@legendary_highlights 🤔interesting, u mean Samsung or Intel right?🤗
tsmc 7nm~3nm process market share 92%
@@legendary_highlights TSMC will create miracles in the future
@san zhang
yeah 😊
belong China CCP🤗
Huawei Alibaba also 🙄
Samsung is also building a factory in the United States So...Samsung is also proud to be an American compan
TSMC's U.S. 5nm factory production capacity accounts for only 5%
2nm Taiwan factory enters trial production 1nm is building a factory
The Japan factory will be put into operation in 2024
The German government promised to subsidize half of the cost, and the Dresden plant will also start to build next year
China also has two factories
😊😉
Late 80's early 90's
Japanese Companies: hohoh im so rich
Very interesting presentation very unique Very creative
Can you tell me where you took the data from?
7:45 I love how Saudi Aramco just came out of nowhere
Aramco was listed on the Saudi stock market in 2019
Only 4% of the company's value has been allocated
Viewing a changing world.
Japan’s golden time: 1985-1990 😮
2016: USA literally on top😂
Some of the real large company do not go for the IPO therefore there are not on this list
Aramco on top 2018
@@xxuq pretty much all the Saudis produce and still not as high as Microsoft or Apple now
@@sleepnaught no aramco 2 in the world apple number 1 now I have to tell the truth.
@@xxuq Whatever, my point still stands. Aramco is only up temporary because of oil prices being through the roof. When they come down(oil just dropped 12% today) we'll see them fall farther down the list