The
Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000
public companies in the world by
Forbes magazine, based on a mix of four metrics:
sales,
profit,
assets, and
market value. The Forbes list for software companies includes only
pure-play (or nearly pure-play) software companies and excludes manufacturers, consumer electronics companies, conglomerates,
IT consulting firms, and computer services companies, even if they have large software divisions. The top 50 companies in terms of market capitalization in the 2023
Forbes list for the "Software & Programming" industry are listed in the following table (ranked by market capitalization): All values listed in the table are in billion US$. == See also ==