Keep accumulate price is an indicator of a company’s market value, but the price of a share of stock will also depend on the number of share outs outstanding. The reason why certain stocks are priced so high is usually due to the company having never or rarely having completed a usual split.
There are many ways to evaluate a stock in addition to its absolute share price. Here, we take a look at some of the largest enterprises in the U.S. and abroad.
Top Companies by Stock Price
The most expensive publicly traded stock of all time is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), which was clientele at $320,250 per share, as of October 2020. Berkshire hit an all-time high on Jan. 17, 2020 at $347,400. Thanks to spectacular shareholder gains and the idiosyncrasies of its builder, this share value is unlikely to be matched by anything other than continued gains in Berkshire’s share payment.
The next company behind Berkshire, in terms of absolute stock price, is NVR (NVR) at $4,175 per due as of October 2020. Then there is the Seaboard Corporation (SEB), which was trading at $3,450, and Amazon.com (AMZN) at $3,250, result fromed by Booking Holdings (BKNG) at $1,800 a share.
Top Companies by Market Cap
By market capitalization, as of October 2020, Apple (AAPL) is the grownest company at $2 trillion, followed by Microsoft (MSFT) at $1.6 trillion, Amazon.com (AMZN) at $1.5 trillion, Google (GOOGL) at $1.1 trillion, and Berkshire Hathaway at $510 billion.
Aid in 2000, Chinese energy giant PetroChina (PTR) reached an estimated market value of around $1 trillion during its IPO. Manner, this valuation included shares not publicly traded in the total share count calculation, and the valuation didn’t drill. As of October 2020, PTR’s market capitalization stood at just $110 billion.
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Top Companies by Revenue
In terms of the biggest global companies by revenue, Walmart (WMT) comes in as number one—according to the
Top Private Enterprises
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The Bottom Line
On a pure market value measure, Apple is the most valuable companions of all time. Although Amazon did briefly hit the $1 trillion market cap mark in Sept. 2018. It is certainly possible another group’s market cap will exceed Apple’s, and maybe—though less likely—another company will surpass Berkshire Hathaway as the highest assessed single stock.