The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world features in Forbes magazine. The ranking is based on four criteria namely Sales, Profit, Assets and Market value.
The ranking was first published in 2003 and it is a useful indicator for leading public companies in the world. In 2013, the top 2 position, are dominated by companies from China where previously hold by companies from United States.
For the 2013 ranking, there are 20 Malaysian companies listed up from 18 in 2012. The newly listed companies are DRB-Hicom & Telekom Malaysia.
The table below is top 20 of 2013 Forbes Global 2000 and all the position of Malaysian companies in the list.
| Rank | Company | Country | Industry | Sales | Profits | Assets | Market Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ’12 | ’11 | $ bil | $ bil | $ bil | $ bil | |||
| 1 | 5 | ICBC | China | Banking | 134.8 | 37.8 | 2813.5 | 237.3 |
| 2 | 13 | China Construction Bank | China | Banking | 113.1 | 30.6 | 2241.0 | 202.0 |
| 3 | 2 | JPMorgan Chase | United States | Banking | 108.2 | 21.3 | 2359.1 | 191.4 |
| 4 | 3 | General Electric | United States | Conglo merate | 147.4 | 13.6 | 685.3 | 243.7 |
| 5 | 1 | Exxon Mobil | United States | Oil & Gas | 420.7 | 44.9 | 333.8 | 400.4 |
| 6 | 6 | HSBC Holdings | United Kingdom | Banking | 104.9 | 14.3 | 2684.1 | 201.3 |
| 7 | 4 | Royal Dutch Shell | Netherlands | Oil & Gas | 467.2 | 26.6 | 360.3 | 213.1 |
| 8 | 19 | Agricultural Bank of China | China | Banking | 103.0 | 23.0 | 2124.2 | 150.8 |
| 9 | 8 | Berkshire Hathaway | United States | Conglo merate | 162.5 | 14.8 | 427.5 | 252.8 |
| 9 | 7 | PetroChina | China | Oil & Gas | 308.9 | 18.3 | 347.8 | 261.2 |
| 11 | Bank of China | China | Banking | 98.1 | 22.1 | 2033.8 | 131.7 | |
| 12 | 9 | Wells Fargo | United States | Banking | 91.2 | 18.9 | 1423.0 | 201.3 |
| 13 | 12 | Chevron | United States | Oil & Gas | 222.6 | 26.2 | 233.0 | 232.5 |
| 14 | 17 | Volkswagen Group | Germany | Automotive | 254.0 | 28.6 | 408.2 | 94.4 |
| 15 | 22 | Apple | United States | Computer Hardware | 164.7 | 41.7 | 196.1 | 416.6 |
| 15 | 16 | Wal-Mart Stores | United States | Retailing | 469.2 | 17.0 | 203.1 | 242.5 |
| 17 | 15 | Gazprom | Russia | Oil & Gas | 144.0 | 40.6 | 339.3 | 111.4 |
| 18 | 11 | BP | United Kingdom | Oil & Gas | 370.9 | 11.6 | 301.0 | 130.4 |
| 19 | 14 | Citigroup | United States | Banking | 90.7 | 7.5 | 1864.7 | 143.6 |
| 20 | 10 | Petrobras | Brazil | Oil & Gas | 144.1 | 11.0 | 331.6 | 120.7 |
| 332 | 366 | Maybank | Malaysia | Banking | 9.1 | 1.9 | 161.4 | 24.3 |
| 467 | 493 | CIMB Group Holdings | Malaysia | Banking | 6.3 | 1.4 | 110.2 | 16.8 |
| 516 | 905 | Tenaga Nasional | Malaysia | Electric Utilities | 11.5 | 1.3 | 28.3 | 12.6 |
| 542 | 530 | Sime Darby | Malaysia | Conglo merate | 15.0 | 1.3 | 14.9 | 17.3 |
| 594 | 651 | Public Bank | Malaysia | Banking | 4.2 | 1.3 | 89.8 | 18.0 |
| 725 | 739 | Genting | Malaysia | Casinos & Gaming | 5.6 | 1.4 | 21.5 | 11.6 |
| 807 | 896 | Axiata Group | Malaysia | Telecom munications | 5.8 | 0.8 | 14.0 | 17.2 |
| 941 | 916 | Petronas Chemicals | Malaysia | Chemicals | 5.4 | 1.2 | 8.3 | 16.3 |
| 973 | 1119 | RHB Capital | Malaysia | Banking | 2.0 | 0.6 | 61.8 | 6.8 |
| 1125 | 1174 | AmBank Group | Malaysia | Banking | 2.1 | 0.5 | 36.4 | 6.1 |
| 1260 | 1218 | Maxis | Malaysia | Telecom munications | 2.9 | 0.6 | 5.8 | 15.6 |
| 1261 | 1253 | YTL | Malaysia | Diversified Utilities | 6.4 | 0.4 | 16.3 | 5.6 |
| 1302 | 1238 | Hong Leong Financial | Malaysia | Banking | 2.3 | 0.4 | 53.6 | 4.8 |
| 1317 | 1119 | IOI Group | Malaysia | Food Processing | 4.9 | 0.6 | 7.2 | 9.6 |
| 1450 | 1484 | Petronas Gas | Malaysia | Oil & Gas | 1.2 | 0.5 | 4.4 | 11.8 |
| 1496 | 1594 | Petronas Dagangan | Malaysia | Oil & Gas | 9.6 | 0.3 | 3.2 | 7.4 |
| 1823 | New | DRB-Hicom | Malaysia | Conglo merate | 2.2 | 0.4 | 12.9 | 1.5 |
| 1842 | 1245 | MISC | Malaysia | Transport ation | 3.1 | 0.2 | 12.2 | 7.4 |
| 1858 | 1559 | Kuala Lumpur Kepong | Malaysia | Food Processing | 3.3 | 0.4 | 3.7 | 6.9 |
| 1961 | New | Telekom Malaysia | Malaysia | Telecom munications | 3.2 | 0.4 | 7.3 | 6.1 |