Forbes' 2025 Global 2000 List: United States - The World’s Largest Companies Ranked

Despite media reports with alarming reports of a country divided politically and socio-economically, The United States remains the land of opportunity. Globalization has lifted up the rest of the world for decades, but American dominance on Forbes’ annual Global 2000 list remains unchallenged. There are 612 U.S.-based companies on the list ranking the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, far more than the closest rival in China, which has 317 firms represented.

JPMorgan is ranked as the largest company on the global list for the third year in a row, with 12-month sales ($285 billion), profits ($59 billion), assets ($4.4 trillion) and market capitalization ($678 billion) all growing to new all-time highs since last year.

The U.S. is home to six of the top 10 companies on the Global 2000—Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, Bank of America, Microsoft and Alphabet all join JPMorgan for the second straight year—and 15 of the top 25 overall. Much of that concentration at the top is a credit to its thriving stock market, even as many international markets are reversing a long run of underperformance this year. Seven of the world’s eight trillion-dollar companies are still based in the U.S. (energy giant Saudi Aramco is the only international one). The 612 American companies on the list are worth a total of $50 trillion in market value, the majority of the $91 trillion all 2,000 companies account for despite making up less than one-third of the list.

The Global 2000 ranks the largest companies in the world using four metrics: sales, profits, asset and market value. As a group, the 612 companies from the United States account for $19.5 trillion in sales, $2 trillion in profits, $61.1 trillion in assets and $50.2 trillion in market value. We used the latest 12 months of financial data available to us as of April 25, 2015 to calculate the factors used in our rankings.