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JP Morgan Chase ranked No. 1 on the Global 2000 in 2024, 2023 and 2022. Corbis via Getty Images For the 22nd consecutive year, Forbes is ranking the world’s largest public companies. We compile our Global 2000 list using data from FactSet to screen for the biggest public companies in four metrics: sales, profits, assets and market value. Our market value calculation is as of April 25, 2025, closing prices and includes all common shares outstanding. All figures are consolidated and in U.S. dollars. We use the latest-12-months’ financial data available to us on April 25, 2025. We rely heavily on the databases for all data, as well as the latest financial period available for our rankings. Many factors play into which financial period of data is available for the companies and used in our rankings: the timeliness of our data collection/screening and company reporting policies, country-specific reporting policies and the lag time between when a company releases its financial data and when the databases capture it for screening/ranking. We quality-check the downloaded financial data to the best of our ability using other data sources and available company financial statements. We first create four separate lists of the 2000 biggest companies in each of the metrics: sales, profits, assets, and market value. Each of the 2000 lists has a minimum cutoff value in order for a company to qualify: sales $5.9 billion, profits of $399 million, assets of $14.1 billion and market value of $7.9 billion. A company needs to qualify for at least one of the lists to be eligible for the final Global 2000 ranking. This year 3,385 companies were needed to fill out the four lists of 2000, each company qualifying for at least one of the lists. Each company receives a separate score for each metric based…

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