World Largest Company

Recently Forbes Global has announced the largest company in the world for the year 2009.
Below is the top 20 list of the largest companies.

Rank	Company	Country	Industry	Sales ($bil)	Profits ($bil)	Assets ($bil)	Market Value ($bil)
1	General Electric	United States	Conglomerates	182.52	17.41	797.77	89.87
2	Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands	Oil & Gas Operations	458.36	26.28	278.44	135.10
3	Toyota Motor	Japan	Consumer Durables	263.42	17.21	324.98	102.35
4	ExxonMobil	United States	Oil & Gas Operations	425.70	45.22	228.05	335.54
5	BP	United Kingdom	Oil & Gas Operations	361.14	21.16	228.24	119.70
6	HSBC Holdings	United Kingdom	Banking	142.05	5.73	2,520.45	85.04
7	AT&T	United States	Telecommunications Services	124.03	12.87	265.25	140.08
8	Wal-Mart Stores	United States	Retailing	405.61	13.40	163.43	193.15
9	Banco Santander	Spain	Banking	96.23	13.25	1,318.86	49.75
9	Chevron	United States	Oil & Gas Operations	255.11	23.93	161.17	121.70
11	Total	France	Oil & Gas Operations	223.15	14.74	164.66	112.90
12	ICBC	China	Banking	53.60	11.16	1,188.08	170.83
13	Gazprom	Russia	Oil & Gas Operations	97.29	26.78	276.81	74.55
14	PetroChina	China	Oil & Gas Operations	114.32	19.94	145.14	270.56
15	Volkswagen Group	Germany	Consumer Durables	158.40	6.52	244.05	75.18
16	JPMorgan Chase	United States	Banking	101.49	3.70	2,175.05	85.87
17	GDF Suez	France	Utilities	115.59	9.05	232.71	70.46
18	ENI	Italy	Oil & Gas Operations	158.32	12.91	139.80	80.68
19	Berkshire Hathaway	United States	Diversified Financials	107.79	4.99	267.40	122.11
20	Vodafone	United Kingdom	Telecommunications Services	70.39	13.30	252.08	93.66

It is obvious that oil and gas dominates the top 20. No wonder the oil and gas always earn more in-terms of salaries and bonuses. So, fresh grads who are looking for a good lifetime job, I might highly recommend this industries for the time being (Nobody can clearly predict the future, btw).

You can get more details here for full list.

If we narrow down the scope to Malaysia, some of the companies might have been performing well this year. Perhaps the global recession is the opportunity for the local companies to get their butt on the list and get notice around the world.

Rank	Company	Country	Industry	Sales ($bil)	Profits ($bil)	Assets ($bil)	Market Value ($bil)
534	Maybank	Malaysia	Banking	4.71	0.90	81.98	6.71
569	Sime Darby	Malaysia	Conglomerates	10.41	1.07	10.79	9.16
575	Tenaga Nasional	Malaysia	Utilities	7.58	0.76	20.58	7.54
685	Public Bank	Malaysia	Banking	3.02	0.76	56.55	8.62
705	Bumiputra-Commerce	Malaysia	Banking	3.68	0.57	59.60	6.66
875	MISC	Malaysia	Transportation	4.05	0.76	9.08	8.58
1051	IOI Group	Malaysia	Food, Drink & Tobacco	4.49	0.68	5.27	6.14
1290	RHB Capital	Malaysia	Banking	1.74	0.31	30.13	2.17
1467	Petronas Gas	Malaysia	Oil & Gas Operations	0.98	0.34	3.06	5.20
1540	YTL	Malaysia	Utilities	2.00	0.24	11.77	3.11
1612	PLUS Expressways	Malaysia	Transportation	0.87	0.32	4.92	3.96
1684	PPB Group	Malaysia	Food, Drink & Tobacco	1.02	0.38	3.82	3.10
1692	AMMB Holdings	Malaysia	Banking	1.72	0.21	25.82	1.82
1734	TM International	Malaysia	Telecommunications Services	3.33	0.15	10.75	3.06
1805	Hong Leong Financial Group	Malaysia	Banking	1.20	0.17	25.53	1.30
1823	Genting	Malaysia	Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure	2.66	0.17	8.78	3.46
1938	Petronas Dagangan	Malaysia	Oil & Gas Operations	6.97	0.21	2.69	1.98
1941	Kuala Lumpur Kepong	Malaysia	Food, Drink & Tobacco	2.28	0.30	2.47	2.87
1976	Telekom Malaysia	Malaysia	Telecommunications Services	2.54	0.23	6.51	3.21

These are the giants companies in Malaysia. Malaysian Maybank leads the way at rank 534, but only Sime Darby managed to earn a billion of profit (in USD). I have no idea how the decide the rank.

So, aren't you wanting to have a part of the cake and receive some portion of their profits in term of dividend?