List of largest companies in Singapore
This article lists the largest companies in Singapore in terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes.
2019 Fortune list
This list displays all 3 Singaporean companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2018.[1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
| Rank | Fortune 500 rank |
Name | Industry | Revenue (USD millions) |
Profits (USD millions) |
Employees | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | Trafigura | Commodity | 180,744 | 849 | 4,316 | Singapore |
| 2 | 258 | Wilmar International | Food production | 44,497 | 1,128 | 90,000 | Singapore |
| 3 | 474 | Flex | Electronics | 26,210 | 93 | 200,000 | Singapore |
2019 Forbes list
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies. The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking. The table below also lists the headquarters location and industry sector of each company. The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2018. All 13 companies from Singapore are listed.[2]
| Rank | Forbes 2000 rank |
Name | Headquarters | Revenue (billions US$) |
Profit (billions US$) |
Assets (billions US$) |
Value (billions US$) |
Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 213 | DBS Bank | Singapore | 13.6 | 4.1 | 404.2 | 51.6 | Banking |
| 2 | 286 | Oversea-Chinese Banking | Singapore | 11.0 | 3.3 | 343.1 | 36.9 | Banking |
| 3 | 307 | United Overseas Bank | Singapore | 10.7 | 3.0 | 284.7 | 32.9 | Banking |
| 4 | 409 | Singtel | Singapore | 12.9 | 2.3 | 35.7 | 37.8 | Telecommunication |
| 5 | 425 | Wilmar International | Singapore | 44.7 | 1.1 | 45.7 | 17.0 | Food production |
| 6 | 890 | CapitaLand | Singapore | 4.4 | 1.3 | 47.4 | 11.2 | Real estate |
| 7 | 1078 | Singapore Airlines | Singapore | 12.1 | 0.5 | 20.2 | 8.6 | Airline |
| 8 | 1353 | Keppel Corporation | Singapore | 4.4 | 0.7 | 19.5 | 9.0 | Conglomerate |
| 9 | 1373 | Olam International | Singapore | 22.6 | 0.2 | 17.2 | 4.5 | Agriculture |
| 10 | 1442 | Flex | Singapore | 26.5 | 0.1 | 14.0 | 5.8 | Electronics |
| 11 | 1663 | Frasers Property | Singapore | 3.5 | 0.6 | 24.1 | 4.0 | Real estate |
| 12 | 1695 | China Aviation Oil | Singapore | 20.6 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 0.9 | Commodity |
| 13 | 1781 | Sembcorp Industries | Singapore | 8.7 | 0.2 | 17.1 | 3.6 | Utilities |
References
- "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- "The World's Largest Public Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 25 July 2019.