As of June 2018, Japanese vehicle manufacturer Toyota Motors is the world’s biggest automotive business in terms of market capitalization.
Close behind is a trio of Germany-based automobile makers: Volkswagen Group, Dailmer and BMW Group.
This analysis compares those four multinationals plus 21 other automobile makers in terms of their market capitalization, sales and profits based on Forbes 2000 research at June 2018. Also shown is the city where each automotive behemoth has its headquarters.
Top 25 Largest International Manufacturers: Cars and Trucks
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Market Cap
Market capitalization refers the market value of a company’s outstanding shares at a certain point in time. It is a concept typically used to classify companies by their size taking in account equity values which can fluctuate wildly over time, depending on how global stock markets are behaving.
Below, you will find the world’s largest automotive companies by market capitalization at June 2018.
- Toyota Motors: US$200.7 billion (Up 16.8% from 2017)
- Volkswagen Group: $101.4 billion (Up 39.1%)
- Daimler: $85.7 billion (Up 12.6%)
- BMW Group: $72.3 billion (Up 25.3%)
- SAIC Motor: $63.8 billion (Up 46.7%)
- Honda Motor: $58.9 billion (Up 14.6%)
- General Motors: $52 billion (Up 2.4%)
- Tesla: $51.1 billion (Down -11.8%)
- Ford Motor: $44.6 billion (Down -0.2%)
- Nissan Motor: $39.7 billion (Up 3.4%)
- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: $35 billion (Down -2.1%)
- Hyundai Motor: $31.6 billion (Down -7.6%)
- Renault: $30.8 billion (Up 25.2%)
- Suzuki Motor: $27.6 billion (Up 38.7%)
- Geely Automobile Holdings: $26.9 billion (Down -9.1%)
- Porsche Automobil Holding: $25.7 billion (Up 3.1%)
- Subaru: $25.3 billion (Down -7.3%)
- Ferrari: $25 billion (Down -4.6%)
- BYD: $21.4 billion (Up 16.3%)
- Peugeot: $21.4 billion (Up 26.6%)
- Guangzhou Automobile Group: $18.6 billion (Down -3.1%)
- Tata Motors: $16.8 billion (Down -32.5%)
- Mahindra & Mahindra: $16.1 billion (Up 36.4%)
- Great Wall Motor: $13.9 billion (Down -8.6%)
- KIA Motors: $12.7 billion (Up 0.8%)
In terms of their equities-based market cap, the fastest-growing automobile makers from 2017 to June 2018 were China-based SAIC Motor (up 46.7%), Germany’s Volkswagen Group (up 39.1%), Japan’s Suzuki Motor (up 38.7%), India’s Mahindra & Mahindra (up 36.4%) and France’s Peugeot (up 26.6%).
Based in the Indian city of Mumbai, Tata Motors’ market capitalization retreated by almost a third (-32.5%). The other of these leading automotive firms to experience double-digit market cap shrinkage was American electric vehicles specialist Tesla via its -11.8% setback year over year.
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See also Car Exports by Country, Car Imports by Country and Truck Exports by Country
Research Sources:
Forbes Global 2000 individual company profiles, Example of top automobile maker compiled for this study: Volkswagen Group. Accessed on January 7, 2019
Forbes Global 2000 rankings: Auto & Truck Manufacturers, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on January 7, 2019
Investopedia, Market Capitalization Defined. Accessed on January 7, 2019
Wikipedia, Tesla, Inc. (example of company source data for 2017 sales and profit). Accessed on January 7, 2019
Wikipedia, Tesla Inc Market Cap (example of company source data for 2017 revenue, profit, market capitalization). Accessed on January 7, 2019