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Companies in the Dow Jones Global Titans 50

  • MicrosoftBill Gates claimed he had a working BASIC program before he had written any of it.
  • BPBP began in May 1908 when British geologists struck oil in southwestern Persia.
  • PfizerIn 2025, a single Pfizer medicine called Eliquis brought in 7.9 billion dollars. That was 13 percent of the company's revenue for the year. Pfizer is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation, and its headquarters sit at The…
  • JPMorgan ChaseJPMorgan Chase began in 1799 as a water company that never laid pipe. Aaron Burr hid a bank clause in its charter.
  • WalmartWalmart began as one discount store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. By 2026 it was valued at over $1 trillion.
  • AB InBevAB InBev made four offers for rival SABMiller that were all rejected. Its fifth offer was accepted in principle.
  • Alphabet Inc.Alphabet's structure was modeled on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
  • Meta PlatformsMark Zuckerberg announced on October 28, 2021 that Facebook was changing its name to Meta Platforms.
  • Apple Inc.Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen Bus to help start Apple. Steve Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator to fund a circuit board.
  • Amazon (company)Amazon started in a converted garage under the name Cadabra. Jeff Bezos began the online bookstore there in 1994.
  • MastercardMastercard began after Bank of America refused a bank a card license for being too large.
  • General ElectricGeneral Electric's logo has a nickname: the meatball. Arthur L. Rich designed the blue circle in 1899.
  • AmgenThe name AMGen is shorthand for Applied Molecular Genetics, the label the company carried when it was founded in Thousand Oaks, California, in April 1980. The shortened name stuck, even though the original one described a science project…
  • IBMIBM began in 1911 as a merger of four companies, including a meat slicer maker.
  • NvidiaNvidia began in a Denny's diner booth in East San Jose. Three engineers met there in late 1992 to plan it.
  • IntelIntel almost called itself "Moore Noyce," which sounds like "more noise."
  • The Coca-Cola CompanyCoca-Cola began as a pharmacist's attempt to escape morphine addiction.
  • Visa Inc.Visa does not issue credit cards, extend credit, or set your interest rate. Banks build on its payment network.

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