15 Biggest Public Companies in the World in 2021

6. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)

Market cap of the company as at December 31, 2020 (in billions of dollars): 1,634

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 296.3

Total assets of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 221.2

Total profits of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 10.6

Total employees of the company in 2019: 798,000

Owned by the richest man in the world, Amazon is one of the few companies to end up smelling like roses as we begin 2021, with the e-commerce website increasing sales and hiring hundreds of thousands during the year to keep up with demand. It is interesting to note that Amazon took a long time to become profitable, even when revenue was extremely high as its aim was to initially capture market share and then focus on profits.

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