Largest Tech Companies (2026)

Apple designs and sells the iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch and AirPods, and earns a growing share of its income from services such as iCloud, AppleCare, the App Store and Apple TV. It reports results by geography (Americas, Europe, Greater China, Japan and Rest of Asia Pacific) rather than by product line, with India, the Middle East and Africa included in its Europe segment. Apple's fiscal year ends in late September: for the year to 27 September 2025 it reported revenue of US$416bn, lower than the trailing figure Forbes used, which includes later quarters. It is the largest technology company by sales in the 2026 dataset and the third most valuable.

Alphabet is the holding company formed in 2015 above Google. Its Google Services segment covers Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Google Maps, Google Play and devices; Google Cloud sells infrastructure, data and AI platform services and collaboration tools to enterprises; and Other Bets groups longer-range ventures. Alphabet recorded the highest profit of any company in this ranking in the Forbes data, ahead of Microsoft, Apple and NVIDIA, and the second-highest market value after NVIDIA. Forbes classifies it under IT software and services rather than media, although most of its revenue comes from advertising.

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, business applications, cloud services and gaming products. It reports three segments: Productivity and Business Processes (Office, LinkedIn and Dynamics), Intelligent Cloud (public, private and hybrid server products and cloud services) and More Personal Computing (Windows, devices, gaming and search advertising). Its fiscal year ends on 30 June, so the figure Forbes compiled in spring 2026 includes quarters from fiscal 2026. Microsoft is the largest pure software company in the ranking by sales, and its net margin of about 39% in the Forbes data is among the highest in the list.

Hon Hai Precision Industry, which trades internationally as Foxconn, is the largest electronics contract manufacturer in the ranking. It assembles smartphones, televisions and game consoles, builds servers and networking equipment, makes computers and tablets, and supplies connectors and mechanical parts; it has also added electric-vehicle and semiconductor segments. Because it books the full value of the devices it assembles, its sales are very large relative to its profit: its net margin in the Forbes data is about 2%, against roughly 39% for Microsoft. Sales rose about 30% between the two Forbes datasets. Forbes did not publish an employee count for the company.

Samsung Electronics is the largest affiliate of South Korea's Samsung group and the only company in this list that is a leading producer both of memory chips and of finished consumer devices. Its Device Experience division makes smartphones, televisions, monitors, appliances and network systems; Device Solutions makes DRAM, NAND flash and mobile processors; Samsung Display supplies OLED panels; and Harman makes car audio and digital cockpit systems. Forbes gives 13 January 1969 as the electronics company's founding date and Suwon as its headquarters. Its profit more than doubled between the two Forbes datasets, to US$58.5bn.

NVIDIA designs graphics processing units and the data-centre accelerators, systems, networking and software used to train and run AI models. For its fiscal year ended 25 January 2026 it reported revenue of US$215.9bn, up 65%, of which US$193.7bn came from its Data Center business. That made it the fastest-growing company in the top ten of this ranking. At the 15 May 2026 share prices Forbes used, it was the most valuable company in the entire Global 2000 dataset, at about US$5.5 trillion. Its net margin of about 56% is the highest among the 25 companies except SK Hynix.

Meta Platforms operates Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp through its Family of Apps segment, which earns almost all of the group's revenue from advertising. Its Reality Labs segment develops augmented-, mixed- and virtual-reality hardware, software and content. Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the company with four co-founders in February 2004, remains chief executive. Like Alphabet, Meta is classified by Forbes under IT software and services rather than media. Its sales rose about 31% between the two datasets, faster than either Apple or Alphabet.

TSMC manufactures integrated circuits and wafers for other companies' chip designs, which are used in PCs, communications equipment, automotive and industrial products and consumer electronics such as smartphones and game consoles. Forbes lists its founding on 21 February 1987 and its headquarters in Hsinchu. Because it sells manufacturing capacity rather than branded chips, it competes with Samsung's and Intel's foundry operations rather than with fabless chip designers, which are its customers. Its net margin in the Forbes data is about 47%, and its sales rose about 37% between the two datasets.

Dell Technologies sells servers, storage and networking equipment through its Infrastructure Solutions Group, and desktops, notebooks, workstations and thin clients through its Client Solutions Group. Its sales rose about 19% between the two Forbes datasets, one of the larger increases among the PC and server makers. Michael Dell, who founded the company in 1984, is chief executive. Its net margin of about 5% is typical of hardware companies that resell third-party components such as processors and memory.

Tencent develops and operates digital platforms in China and abroad, including messaging and social services and online and mobile games. It reports four segments: Value-Added Services (games and social network services), FinTech and Business Services (payments, wealth management and cloud), Marketing Services (performance and display advertising) and Others. It is the largest company in this ranking headquartered in mainland China. Alibaba Group, which has larger sales (US$144.2bn in the same dataset), is classified by Forbes as a retailer and therefore falls outside the list.

SK Hynix makes DRAM, NAND flash and CMOS image-sensor chips and is headquartered in Icheon, South Korea. Its sales rose about 81% between the two Forbes datasets, the third-largest increase in the ranking after Wistron and Micron, and its profit almost tripled to US$52.7bn. That profit is close to the US$58.5bn earned by the whole of Samsung Electronics on sales roughly three times as large, giving SK Hynix a net margin of about 57%, the highest in the list.

Wistron is a Taiwanese contract designer and manufacturer of notebooks, desktops, servers, network storage, displays, handheld devices and related products, and also offers after-sales and recycling services. Its sales rose from about US$32.7bn to US$87.0bn between the two Forbes datasets, which moved it from outside the top 25 into twelfth place, the largest increase in the ranking. Its net margin is close to 1%, the lowest among the profitable companies in the list apart from Ingram Micro. Forbes gives 30 May 2001 as its founding date.

Sony Group combines the PlayStation games and network services business, music and film studios, consumer electronics and the image sensors used in many smartphones and cameras. Forbes lists segments for Game and Network Services, Music, Pictures, Entertainment Technology and Services, Imaging and Sensing Solutions and Financial Services. Sony's sales in the Forbes data fell by about 9% and it recorded a net loss of about US$2.2bn, making it one of only two companies in the ranking with a loss; its revenue mix is the most entertainment-heavy of the hardware groups listed.

Quanta Computer is a Taiwanese original design manufacturer that began as a notebook computer maker and now also builds cloud servers, communications products, smart-home, automotive and healthcare electronics and AIoT devices. Its sales rose about 81% between the two Forbes datasets, taking it past Lenovo, Accenture, IBM and Oracle, while its profit rose about 34%. Together with Hon Hai and Wistron it is one of three Taiwanese contract manufacturers in the top 15. Forbes did not publish an employee count for Quanta.

Lenovo develops, manufactures and markets PCs, workstations, servers, storage, smart televisions, smartphones and tablets. Its Intelligent Devices Group covers PCs and mobile devices, its Infrastructure Solutions Group covers servers and storage, and its Solutions and Services Group sells IT services. It is the only company in the ranking that Forbes lists under Hong Kong, where it is headquartered; Forbes gives 1984 as its founding year. Its sales rose about 19% between the two datasets, while its net margin remained under 2%.

Accenture is the largest IT services and consulting company in the ranking. Its services cover strategy and consulting, technology implementation, managed operations, Industry X engineering and manufacturing services, and the Song marketing and customer-experience business, organised into North America, EMEA and Growth Markets segments. It is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Its workforce of about 779,000 is the largest of any company in this list in the Forbes data, more than two and a half times IBM's, reflecting a business that sells skilled labour rather than products.

IBM, founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, is the oldest company in the ranking. It now reports four main segments: Software (hybrid cloud platform, automation, data and security software), Consulting, Infrastructure (hybrid cloud and mainframe systems) and Financing. Its sales in the Forbes data were about 10% higher than a year earlier, and it had about 286,800 employees, the second-largest workforce in the list after Accenture.

Broadcom designs and supplies semiconductors for networking, broadband, wireless and storage, and sells infrastructure software covering mainframe, distributed computing, cybersecurity and storage networking. Its two reporting segments are Semiconductor Solutions and Infrastructure Software. Sales rose about 25% between the two Forbes datasets, and its market value of about US$2.0 trillion was the fifth largest in this list. Hock Tan is chief executive and the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Oracle sells databases, enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure through cloud and on-premise models, together with engineered systems, servers and storage hardware and related services. It reports Cloud and License, Hardware and Services segments. Forbes lists the company's headquarters in Austin, Texas, and Clay Magouyrk as chief executive. Its sales rose about 15% between the two datasets. Oracle's sales are less than a fifth of Microsoft's, but its market value, about US$555bn in the Forbes data, places it eleventh in this list.

Xiaomi, founded in Beijing on 3 March 2010, designs and sells smartphones, consumer hardware and software products and internet services. Forbes describes three segments: hardware, e-commerce and new retail, and internet services, with a product range that extends from phones and audio devices to cameras, scooters and home appliances. Its sales rose about 25% between the two datasets, among the faster growth rates of the device makers in the list, and its net margin of about 9% is higher than that of most hardware assemblers.

Cisco Systems designs, manufactures and sells internet-protocol networking products and related services. Its product categories include secure and agile networks, internet infrastructure, collaboration, end-to-end security and optimised application experiences, and it reports by geography (Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Japan and China). Forbes' profile states that it was founded by Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Its sales rose about 12% between the two datasets.

Micron Technology produces DRAM, NAND flash and solid-state drives for client PCs, cloud servers, smartphones, vehicles and industrial equipment, organised into compute and networking, mobile, embedded and storage business units. Its sales rose about 86% between the two Forbes datasets and its profit rose about fivefold, from US$4.7bn to US$24.1bn, the second-fastest growth in the ranking after Wistron. Micron is headquartered in Boise, Idaho, and was founded in 1978.

HP Inc. sells personal computers, workstations, displays and retail point-of-sale systems through its Personal Systems segment, and consumer and commercial printers and supplies through its Printing segment. It is the PC and printing company that remained after the original Hewlett-Packard separated its enterprise business, which now trades as Hewlett Packard Enterprise and had sales of US$35.8bn in the same dataset, too small for this top 25. HP's sales rose about 5% between the two datasets.

Ingram Micro distributes IT hardware, software and cloud services to resellers and service providers, and reports North America, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Latin America segments. It is headquartered in Irvine, California, and Forbes gives 1979 as its founding year. Distribution margins are thin, so it has the lowest profit among the profitable companies (about US$358m) and the lowest market value (about US$5.9bn) of any company in the ranking despite sales of more than US$54bn; its overall Global 2000 position was 1,341st.

Intel designs and manufactures processors and platforms for PCs, servers, networking and communications, and is building a contract chip-manufacturing business. Its segments are Client Computing Group, Data Center and AI, Intel Foundry and All Other. Its sales were roughly flat between the two Forbes datasets and it recorded a net loss of about US$3.2bn, one of two loss-making companies in the ranking with Sony. Forbes lists Lip-Bu Tan as chief executive.