Global top companies by market value

These ranking were issued by Financial Times for third quarter of 2007. The data of prices and market capitalization for these ranking have been taken on 28 September 2007. FT publishes a list of top 500 global companies every quarter. The entire list can be accessed at the source link given at the end of this post.

Global 500 rank Sep 2007	Global 500 rank Jun 2007	Company	Country
1	1	Exxon Mobil	US
2	2	General Electric	US
3	12	China Mobile	Hong Kong
4	13	Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	China
5	3	Microsoft	US
6	4	Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands
7	7	Gazprom	Russia
8	5	AT&T	US
9	6	Citigroup	US
10	10	Bank of America	US
11	8	BP	UK
12	17	Procter & Gamble	US
13	11	HSBC	UK
14	30	China Construction Bank	China
15	37	China Life Insurance	China
16	26	BHP Billiton	Australia/UK
17	9	Toyota Motor	Japan
18	23	Cisco Systems	US
19	19	Chevron	US
20	36	Sinopec	China
21	16	Total	France
22	15	EDF	France
23	22	Vodafone Group	UK
24	21	Johnson & Johnson	US
25	24	Berkshire Hathaway	US
26	29	Bank of China	China
27	14	Wal-Mart Stores	US
28	31	Nestle	Switzerland
29	18	American International Group	US
30	20	Pfizer	US

With the IPO of PetroChina in October, and its market value crossing a trillion dollars, the highest ever by any company, the rankings have changed with PetroChina coming right at the top.

Source: FT