The total market capitalization of US
technology companies has reached $ 9.1 trillion. This is more than the total
market capitalization of all the companies listed on all the stock markets
across Europe. This has been said in a report of Bank of America. According to
the report, in 2007, the European market was four times larger than the US
technology companies.
Bank of America Global Research said
in a report that for the first time, the market cap ($ 9.1 trillion) of
companies in the US technology sector has exceeded Europe's MCAP. The total
market cap of all the companies listed in all the markets of Europe is
currently at $ 8.9 trillion. It also includes markets in the UK and
Switzerland.
FAANG and some other technology
stocks dominate the US markets and indices these days. There has been a lot of
bounce in them recently Five of America's biggest tech companies are called
Fangs for short. These include Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet
(Google's old name). In January, the top five tech stocks Apple, Microsoft,
Google, Amazon and Facebook had a 17.5 per cent stake in the S&P 500.
During the Coronavirus epidemic, the share of these 5 stocks in the index rose
to over 20 per cent as various funds invested in tech companies. In the market
cap of $ 9.1 trillion, Apple's market cap alone is more than $ 2 trillion.
According to the report, due to the
surge in the US market in the last decade, even American tech companies have
outpaced the whole of Europe in terms of valuation. Since the beginning of
2010, the US index S&P 500 has risen nearly 200 per cent since then. In the
same period, Euro Stocks 50 has gained just 13.4 per cent and the UK's FTSE 100
has risen by less than 11 per cent.
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