📊 The largest public companies in Africa and the world
Hope your year is off to a great start, friends.
Here’s a quick look at the largest public companies from each continent as of Week 1, 2026:
🇺🇸 North America: NVIDIA – $4.5T - Designs and manufactures high-performance chips that underpin the AI revolution and next-gen computing worldwide. (CEO: Jensen Huang)
🇹🇼 Asia: TSMC – $1.65T - The world's leading semiconductor manufacturer, producing chips for Apple, Nvidia, and virtually every major tech company. (CEO: C.C. Wei)
🇳🇱 Europe: ASML – $464B - The most critical semiconductor company on Earth — the only company in the world that produces Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems needed to make advanced chips. (CEO: Christophe Fouquet
🇦🇺 Oceania: Commonwealth Bank – $171B - Australia's financial juggernaut and the most valuable bank in the region. (CEO: Matt Comyn)
🇦🇷 South America: Mercado Libre – $111B - The 'Amazon of Latin America' that operates a dominant e-commerce and fintech ecosystem acro…