According to Korea Exchange, a Korean exchange operator, Samsung's market value rose 16% YoY to $ 281.3bn as of February 2. Despite this, Samsung Electronics still did not keep last year's global 15th Ranking, fell by 3. Analysts believe that Samsung's market value decline is mainly due to Samsung's share price decline at the same time, the foreign capital markets to maintain a bull market, foreign listed companies share prices.
Apple ranked the top of the list with a market capitalization of $ 814.4 billion, followed by the U.S. technology giant Google and the U.S. software giant Microsoft with market cap of $ 774.9 billion and $ 706.7 billion respectively.
Data show that China's technology giant Tencent's global rankings jumped from No. 14 last year to No. 6.
For Asian companies alone, the market cap of China's Tencent and Alibaba surpassed the market cap of South Korea's Samsung Electronics, ranking No. 1 and No. 2 respectively, and Samsung Electronics ranked third in Asia.
Chinese e-commerce companies Alibaba and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China also rank among the top 10. Alibaba's market capitalization rose from No. 13 last year to No. 8, while Bank of China rose from No. 16 to No. 9.
Among the top 100 global companies, 51 are American companies, 13 are Chinese companies, 6 are German companies and 5 are French companies.