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>Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (the parent company name for Google) together are worth more than most every country in the world (except the
by lbarrow 6y ago
>Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (the parent company name for Google) together are worth more than most every country in the world (except the United States, China, Germany, and Japan).
Did the author just compare market capitalizations with GDP? What? It's hard to take some of this stuff seriously.
- nickpinkston 6y agoI got interested and did a more apples to apples comparison: REVENUES (2019): Apple: $260B Facebook: $70.7B Microsoft: $126B Amazon: $233B Alphabet: $162B TOTAL: $852B _____________________________ GDPs in 1000's (copy paste from Wikipedia): 1 United States 21,439,453 — European Union 18,705,132 2 China 14,140,163 3 Japan 5,154,475 4 Germany 3,863,344 5 India 2,935,570 6 United Kingdom 2,743,586 7 France 2,707,074 8 Italy 1,988,636 9 Brazil 1,847,020 10 Canada 1,730,914 11 Russia 1,637,892 12 Korea, South 1,629,532 13 Spain 1,397,870 14 Australia 1,376,255 15 Mexico 1,274,175 16 Indonesia 1,111,713 17 Netherlands 902,355 18 Saudi Arabia 779,289 19 Turkey 743,708 20 Switzerland 715,360 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
- callmekit 6y agoThe Wikipedia article you linked lists GDP in millions, not in 1000's.
- ImaCake 6y agoBy my rekoning then, there are 17 countries that have larger GDP than the combined tech companies.
- nickpinkston 6y agoYea, by the time I'm reading your comment, it won't let me change. More used to corporate numbers where everything is in 1000's haha.