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Lessons learned

A trawl through 30 years of data traces the evolution of superstar firms, a difficult-to-tame species.
The world’s biggest businesses were doing fine until Covid-19 arrived. Now they’re doing even better.
The top 50 companies by value added $4.5 trillion of stock market capitalization in 2020, taking their combined worth to about 28% of global gross domestic product. Three decades ago the equivalent figure was less than 5%.
In 1990, there were no Chinese businesses among the top 50 exchange-traded companies; last year there were 8. China’s gains have come largely at the expense of European enterprises, whose presence on the list has shrunk from 15 to 7 over the period,
Technology dominates the top of the list, and fossil fuel companies—with the exception of Saudi Arabia’s flagship Aramco—have dropped off.
The extraordinary growth of tech companies in particular is what’s spurring government action. They’re in the crosshairs of politicians and regulators almost everywhere.
With fat profits, light tax bills, and limited need for capital or even workers, the new generation of megafirms poses challenges for monetary and fiscal policy, too.
In each of the last three decades, about half of the top 50 spots in the corporate rankings have turned over.

Alert

The biggest companies generally post fatter margins and pay less in taxes than they did in decades past, the Bloomberg Economics study shows.

Warning

The advantages superstar firms enjoy became all the more glaring during the pandemic, which is one reason why the issue of how to tame them has vaulted up the political agenda in so many countries.
Government rescues worked best for the biggest companies, which benefited from central bank backstops that kept borrowing costs low and stock prices high. In contrast, patchwork relief efforts for small businesses left many struggling to pay their bills.

Opportunity

Market dynamism is still at work and getting to the top is no guarantee of staying there.

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A trawl through 30 years of data traces the evolution of superstar firms, a difficult-to-tame species.
The world’s biggest businesses were doing fine until Covid-19 arrived. Now they’re doing even better.
The top 50 companies by value added $4.5 trillion of stock market capitalization in 2020, taking their combined worth to about 28% of global gross domestic product. Three decades ago the equivalent figure was less than 5%.
In 1990, there were no Chinese businesses among the top 50 exchange-traded companies; last year there were 8. China’s gains have come largely at the expense of European enterprises, whose presence on the list has shrunk from 15 to 7 over the period,
Technology dominates the top of the list, and fossil fuel companies—with the exception of Saudi Arabia’s flagship Aramco—have dropped off.
The extraordinary growth of tech companies in particular is what’s spurring government action. They’re in the crosshairs of politicians and regulators almost everywhere.
With fat profits, light tax bills, and limited need for capital or even workers, the new generation of megafirms poses challenges for monetary and fiscal policy, too.
In each of the last three decades, about half of the top 50 spots in the corporate rankings have turned over.

The biggest companies generally post fatter margins and pay less in taxes than they did in decades past, the Bloomberg Economics study shows.

The advantages superstar firms enjoy became all the more glaring during the pandemic, which is one reason why the issue of how to tame them has vaulted up the political agenda in so many countries.
Government rescues worked best for the biggest companies, which benefited from central bank backstops that kept borrowing costs low and stock prices high. In contrast, patchwork relief efforts for small businesses left many struggling to pay their bills.

Market dynamism is still at work and getting to the top is no guarantee of staying there.

Category 2: The Big Picture of the Digital Age

[genioux fact deduced or extracted from Bloomberg Businessweek]

Lessons learned

A trawl through 30 years of data traces the evolution of superstar firms, a difficult-to-tame species.
The world’s biggest businesses were doing fine until Covid-19 arrived. Now they’re doing even better.
The top 50 companies by value added $4.5 trillion of stock market capitalization in 2020, taking their combined worth to about 28% of global gross domestic product. Three decades ago the equivalent figure was less than 5%.
In 1990, there were no Chinese businesses among the top 50 exchange-traded companies; last year there were 8. China’s gains have come largely at the expense of European enterprises, whose presence on the list has shrunk from 15 to 7 over the period,
Technology dominates the top of the list, and fossil fuel companies—with the exception of Saudi Arabia’s flagship Aramco—have dropped off.
The extraordinary growth of tech companies in particular is what’s spurring government action. They’re in the crosshairs of politicians and regulators almost everywhere.
With fat profits, light tax bills, and limited need for capital or even workers, the new generation of megafirms poses challenges for monetary and fiscal policy, too.
In each of the last three decades, about half of the top 50 spots in the corporate rankings have turned over.

Alert

The biggest companies generally post fatter margins and pay less in taxes than they did in decades past, the Bloomberg Economics study shows.

Warning

The advantages superstar firms enjoy became all the more glaring during the pandemic, which is one reason why the issue of how to tame them has vaulted up the political agenda in so many countries.
Government rescues worked best for the biggest companies, which benefited from central bank backstops that kept borrowing costs low and stock prices high. In contrast, patchwork relief efforts for small businesses left many struggling to pay their bills.

Opportunity