There is no doubt that most companies in the world are created for the purpose of making money. This is understandable. Only when some of them reach a certain scale will they consider issues such as social responsibility and free charity.
So are you curious about which companies are the most profitable in the world in 2022? And how many of our Chinese companies are shortlisted? Below, Zhizhi Liangge will take a look at the data released by Fortune magazine this year in the second half of this year.
ranks 11th among the most profitable companies in the world. The Tencent Holdings Co., Ltd. , which is familiar to us, with a profit of up to US$34.854 billion.
Tencent In just over twenty years, this Chinese company has become a giant-level enterprise, with its core businesses covering social communications, game development, new media news clients, and online videos.
So what are Tencent’s most profitable businesses? First, let’s take a look at this data: According to Tencent’s financial report in March this year, Tencent achieved revenue of 560.1 billion yuan in 2021, and the net profit of was 224.82 billion yuan. If calculated based on 365 days a year, Tencent’s average daily net profit exceeded 600 million yuan , and it achieved the 6 small goals mentioned by Sicong’s father in one day. The money-making ability is amazing!
, and everyone with the highest profitability should be able to guess that it is Tencent’s game business. In 2021, Tencent’s total revenue of domestic game business alone will reach 128.8 billion yuan. Among them, the one that contributes the most profit is undoubtedly the mobile game terminal " King of Glory ". The 10th place in the
list is also a Chinese company. The familiar Agricultural Bank of China has a profit of US$37.39 billion.
Agricultural Bank's main business covers investment banking , fund management, financial leasing, life insurance and other fields. The "agricultural" among the four major banks of the Chinese people often hear, refers to the Agricultural Bank of China.
Agricultural Bank of China was established in 1951 and is the first listed bank in China. Among the four major banks, the Agricultural Bank of China has the largest offline outlets, with more than 20,000 in the country, and many outlets have been lower than the county level and below. This gives it its own advantages over the other three banks in serving county economies and rural areas. However, compared with the other three banks, it is still relatively backward in technological innovation and business development products.
Meta Platforms ranked 9th on the list with a profit of US$39.37 billion.
Meta is renamed from some brands of Facebook. As an American company, its social media platform business covers almost the whole world.
, a social application service platform mainly based on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, has more than 2.8 billion active users per day, and the monthly active users of reached an astonishing 3.65 billion, accounting for almost half of the world's population !
Such a large user base naturally makes the advertising business the main revenue of Meta. In the second quarter of this year alone, the company's advertising business revenue reached US$28.152 billion, and the profit amount can be imagined. The eighth place in the
list is the of the four major banks, China Construction Bank , with a profit of US$46.898 billion.
Construction Bank's main business is not essentially different from the other three major banks. Compared with the prominent one, the investment in domestic infrastructure is slightly more than that of the other three major banks. The seventh place in the
list is JPMorgan Chase in the United States, with a profit of US$48.334 billion.
JP Morgan is a major commercial bank in the United States. It is estimated that its total deposit amount is as high as US$1.5 trillion and its total assets are as high as US$2.5 trillion.
The company's main business mainly includes investment banking, financial transaction management, investment management, personal banking business, , etc.
Like before, if Chinese companies want to go overseas, they almost all rely on JPMorgan Chase, because it is the most undisputed and authoritative company in the world in terms of overseas listing, business mergers and acquisitions, bond issuance, etc.The sixth place in the
list is the most profitable company in China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China , with a profit of US$54 billion.
Compared with other banks, ICBC has the highest total assets in the world. In addition, ICBC has extremely strong revenue-generating capabilities, with an average daily profit of nearly 900 million yuan, and the deposit and loan amount is far from comparable to other banks. In addition, ICBC is also responsible for many overseas financing businesses in my country, which also allows ICBC to develop financial services earlier in the world and gain the advantage over other domestic banks. The fifth place on the
list is the world-renowned technology company Microsoft , with a profit of US$61.271 billion.
This technology company, founded by former world richest man Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen (deceased) in the United States in 1975, should be the most familiar American company in China.
Microsoft mainly focuses on technological research and development, manufacturing, authorization and providing a wide range of computer software service businesses.
's Windows operating systems and Office series software (Word, Excel, etc.) are extremely popular all over the world. Almost all companies around the world cannot do without the office software developed by Microsoft in their daily office work. In June last year, Microsoft became the second company in the United States to have a total market value of more than $2 trillion after Apple .
ranked fourth on the list is Alphabet, which is the "umbrella company" after the reorganization of Google , with a profit of 76.033 billion US dollars.
The company's main business includes search, video websites and other network information services.
The company's main revenue comes from Google's advertising business. Alphabet's financial report in the second quarter of this year showed that Google's advertising revenue accounted for 81% of the company's total revenue in the second quarter.
list is Berkshire Hathaway , with a profit of US$89.795 billion.
The company was founded in the United States in 1956 by "Stock God" Buffett . It is a company with its main insurance business and other investments in multiple fields.
branch GEICO is the sixth largest auto insurance company in the United States, and General Re is one of the four largest reinsurance companies in the world.
The company's market value has increased by 36,416 times from 1964 to 2021, and last year the company's main profit came from four major businesses: insurance companies, Apple , BNSF Railway, and heavily held stock BHE.
The company held Apple shares last year to a market value of US$157.5 billion; held Bank of America shares to a market value of US$44.9 billion; held Coca-Cola shares to a market value of US$23.7 billion.
my country's automobile company BYD is the eighth largest holding stock of the company. Since Buffett invested US$230 million to buy 225 million BYD shares in 2008, the stock god has made more than 32 times the profit in BYD's investment. The second place in the
list is the foreign company that the Chinese are most familiar with, Apple, with a profit of US$94.68 billion.
Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs (deceased) and two other partners. In January this year, Apple's market value exceeded US$3 trillion, making it the first company in the world to reach that market value.
Apple's main business is undoubtedly electronic products, covering mobile phones, tablets, computers, watches, wireless headphones, etc. It is the most sought after electronic product technology company in the world at present. Almost every new product is released, it will become the focus of the world. The first place on the
list is the only company with a profit of more than $100 billion. It is Saudi Aramco, which comes from Saudi Arabia , with a profit of $105.369 billion.
Saudi Aramco is a comprehensive international oil company and the world's largest oil production company.
There is no doubt that oil is the main source of the company's revenue. Saudi As the country with the largest oil reserves in the world, Saudi Aramco is equivalent to the "spokesperson" of the country's oil. It covers all oil-related exploration, development, production, refining, transportation and final sales.
In addition, companies we are familiar with are also at the forefront of the list, such as Samsung Electronics in South Korea and Mercedes-Benz in Germany.
