The $124 Trillion Global Stock Market by Sector 🌎

Key Takeaways

• Information technology, financials, and industrials—the world’s three largest sectors by market cap—together make up 50% of global stock market value.
• With a $25.7 trillion market capitalization, the information technology sector spans across 6,198 publicly-listed firms.
• Data is from Aswath Damodaran at NYU Stern.

Tech Commands a Large Global Presence

In 2025, tech companies make up six of the top 10 most valuable firms in America as of February 10, 2025.

Meanwhile, Tencent and Alibaba rank among the 10 largest firms by market cap in China.

A similar trend is seen in Europe, where business software firm, SAP closes off the top three with a $333 billion market cap and semiconductor firm ASML ranks in fifth.