List of largest companies in South Africa

This article lists the largest companies in South Africa in terms of their revenue, net profit, total assets and market capitalization according to the American business magazine Forbes.

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 2019. All 14 companies from South Africa in the Forbes 2000 are listed.[1]




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2000 rank		 Name Headquarters Revenue
(billions
US$)		 Profit
(billions
US$)		 Assets
(billions
US$)		 Value
(billions
US$)		 Industry
261 Anglo American Johannesburg* 27.6 3.6 52.2 35.9 Diversified Metals & Mining
415 Standard Bank Johannesburg 9.0 2.1 147.9 22.9 Banking
418 Naspers Cape Town 6.9 13.5 35.8 111.3 Media
445 First Rand Johannesburg 7.6 2.3 110.5 27.2 Banking
530 Sasol Johannesburg 14.8 1.3 32.8 21.0 Oil and Gas
661 Absa Group Limited Johannesburg 9.7 1.1 89.6 9.9 Finance
755 Nedbank Johannesburg 7.7 1.0 72.6 9.4 Banking
782 Old Mutual Sandton 8.2 1.1 60.7 8.3 Finance
818 Sanlam Bellville 5.8 0.9 55.9 12.4 Insurance
936 MTN Group Johannesburg 10.2 0.66 17.0 13.5 Telecommunications
1764 Investec Johannesburg 6.0 0.72 73.2 6.3 Investment Services
1764 RMB Holdings Johannesburg 4.0 0.7 3.6 8.3 Finance
1881 Shoprite Holdings Brackenfell 11.0 0.3 4.7 7.0 Retail
1981 Bidvest Group Johannesburg 9.4 0.3 4.4 7.2 Finance

*Despite the company being South African with Head Offices in South Africa, the company is listed as British by the Forbes 2000 ranking due to the entity's registered address in London.

See also

References
  1. "The World's Largest Public Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
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