Fascinating video to watch.
And some very surprising things that rocket to #1 over time.
The 10 largest public companies in the world had a combined market capitalization of nearly $12 trillion as of July 2022.
But, as Visual Capitalist’s Carmen Ang and Jeff Desjsardins detail below, two decades ago, the players that made up the list of the largest companies by market capitalization were radically different – and as the years ticked by, emerging megatrends and market sentiment have worked to shuffle the deck multiple times.
This racing bar chart by Truman Du shows how the ranking of the top 10 largest public companies has changed from 2000 to 2022.