Apple Inc(AAPL) became the most valuable company in the world this Monday when its market cap exceed $710.0 billion. The next largest firms have market caps of less than $400 billion as the graphic shows below:
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Source: Apple: $710 Billion and Counting, Feb 10, 2015, The Wall Street Journal
I was curious about the size of the large-cap foreign firms trading on the New York Stock Exchange. According to the latest data, drug giant Novartis(NVS) has the highest market cap at over $276 billion. The table below shows the list of foreign firms on the NYSE which have market capitalization of over $50 billion:
Note: ING resumed paying dividends after a break of many years and will pay 12 Euro cents this year.
Just a handful of firms have market caps exceeding $200 billion and most firms have market caps under $100 billion. Many of the oil firms listed here have lost substantial market values in the past few months. Others like Petrobras(PBR) of Brazil do not even appear in this list as it is valued at under $25 billion now.
Disclosure: Long LYG, PBR, ING
