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This chart maps the world’s 30 most valuable companies — from Bank of America (founded 1784, Bank of America market cap is $375B) to NVIDIA (founded 1993, Nvidia market cap is $4.32T) — showing how corporate age and market value intersect.
Older institutions like JPMorgan Chase (1799) and Procter & Gamble (1837) remain global heavyweights, but the upper‑right corner is dominated by younger tech titans: Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta. Outliers like Saudi Aramco (1933, $1.49T) prove that energy can still rival tech in scale.
Survorship bias. I guess if you would plot the graph in 1850 the companies on the bottom left from this would be on the top right. In the 1990s oil companies were on the top, now they are on the middle.
And as it 's just the top 30 it's a very small sample. Top 1000 could show some correlation, but I guess it would be just noise