Financial Times Global 500
Financial Times Global 500 is a quarterly published list of 500 largest companies in the world by market capitalization. It will be published by the British Financial Times.
Overview
The Financial Times Global 500 list published by the British Financial Times. It contains the 500 largest companies in the world by market capitalization. First, the FT Global 500 has been published annually. From 1996 to 1999, the list was published in the month of January with the data from the end of September and from 2000 in the month of May with the data from the end of March. Later, a change of appearance was on four times a year.
According to the observations of the Financial Times only includes companies that have a minimum free float of 15 percent. That is why corporations that are almost entirely owned by the state or are controlled by family holdings are missing. The share price will be converted for better comparability to a common currency. All the numbers in the list are quoted in U.S. dollars at the exchange rate on the same day. The classification of the nationality of a company is based on the founding place of the company and the place of primary listing on the Exchange.
Since 1995, four companies from the USA ( Apple, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Microsoft ), a group from Japan (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ) and a group from China ( PetroChina ) the world 's largest companies. The best placement of a German company reached the German Telekom on 31 March 2000. With a market capitalization of 209.628 billion U.S. dollars, the Group was ranked 10 worldwide and in Europe on Tier 1
There is no globally recognized evaluation standards for the size of a company. Possible sizes are the sales, the market capitalization or the number of employees. Financial Times has decided to market capitalization. FT Global 500 is in competition with the lists Forbes Global 2000 and Fortune Global 500
Top 20 from 1995 and 2012
The first Financial Times Global 500 was published on 25 January 1996 with the data of 30 September 1995. 's List of 1995 were among the top 20 eight companies from Japan. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) was the largest in the world by market capitalization companies. On 31 Dec 2012 NTT was ranked 131 and Toyota was ranked the best placed 28 Group of Japan. Only five companies from the top 20 of 1995 ( General Electric, Royal Dutch Shell, AT & T, Microsoft, IBM) belonged in 2012 to the largest market capitalization of 20 companies in the world.
Seven companies from the top 20 of 1995, in 2012 no longer represented in the Financial Times Global 500 due to mergers: Exxon (1999 merger with Mobil ExxonMobil ), Dai -Ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and Industrial Bank of Japan (2000 merger to Mizuho Financial Group ), Sumitomo Bank (2001 merger with Sakura Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation), Sanwa Bank (2002 merger with Tokai Bank and Toyo Trust and Banking Co. for UFJ Bank) and the Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi ( 2006 merger with UFJ Bank to Bank of Tokyo -Mitsubishi UFJ ). For a company, there was a change of name: Philip Morris is, since 2003, Altria Group.
From Germany no group was able to place in the Top 20. Among the largest 100 companies by market capitalization in the world made it in 1995, however, four German companies: 32 Alliance, 62 Siemens, Daimler- Benz 71 and 76 German bank. 2012 five German companies were represented in the Top 100: 56 Volkswagen 57 SAP, Siemens 63, 74 and 81 BASF Bayer.
Top 5 since 1995
The table shows the five largest companies by market capitalization in billions of U.S. dollars since 1995. Listed is also the country where there is the Group's headquarters.