5 Largest European Companies By Market Cap in 2020

2. Roche

Total market cap as at June 30, 2020 (in billions of dollars): 300

Roche is a Swiss pharmaceutical giant which is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. The company had nearly $70 billion in revenue in 2019 and has nearly 100,000 employees. Roche as founded 124 years ago and has consistently been named among the biggest biotech companies in the world. It is the leading company to provide treatment for cancer and controls American and Japanese biotechnology companies as well. In 1973, the company was found guilty of fixing prices and fined accordingly, though it later had the whistleblower arrested for unauthorized disclosure of information.

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