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Apple isn't "the most valuable company in history" it just has the highest market cap of a public company in the USA right now.

• ianwalter 8y ago
  What is the most valuable company in history? What company in the world has a higher market value than Apple?
  • afthonos 8y ago
    Saudi Aramco is somewhere in the 1.2-2T area: https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-13/saudi-aramco-may-have-to-settle-for-just-a-trillion-or-so https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-13/saudi-a...
    • ianwalter 8y ago
      Thats not a publicly traded company though right? My point being “it just has the highest market cap of a public company in the USA right now” is misleading.
  • Naga 8y ago
    The hard part is that nominally Apple is the most valuable, because it has the highest market value, but of course that doesn't take into consideration inflation. I think the general consensus is that the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was the most valuable. Excuse the below clickbait article, but it was the first result when I searched: https://dutchreview.com/culture/history/how-rich-was-the-dutch-east-india-company/ https://dutchreview.com/culture/history/how-rich-was-the-dut...
    • ianwalter 8y ago
      But like the parent comment said, thats market cap, not value. Value isn’t market cap because the market is irrational and VOC is a perfect example of that.