Apple is as soon as once more the world’s most dear model. Model Finance, the world’s main model valuation consultancy, values Apple’s model at $574.5 billion for 2025, retaining it forward of its closest rival, Microsoft, valued at $461 billion. Aside from 2023, when Apple briefly trailed Amazon by a margin of simply 1%, it has held the highest spot because the world’s most dear model since 2021.
In response to Model Finance’s World 500 2025 analysis, three out of the 5 most dear manufacturers on the earth are know-how manufacturers:
1. Apple: model worth of USD574.5 billion, up 11% from 2024
2. Microsoft: model worth of USD461.1 billion, up 35%
3. Google: model worth of USD413.0 billion, up 24%
4. Amazon: model worth of USD356.4 billion, up 15%
5. Walmart: model worth of USD137.2 billion, up 42%
This announcement got here throughout a session hosted by the UAE Pavilion as a part of its agenda of occasions held along side the Annual Assembly 2025 of The World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, from January 20 to 24.
In response to the analysis, the United Arab Emirates continues to claim its international management via the excellent efficiency of its firms within the World 500 2025 analysis, an annual report highlighting the world’s most dear and strongest manufacturers.
e& achieved distinctive new development in its model worth, incomes the title of the “fastest-growing model on the earth.” This rating displays a major eightfold improve within the Group’s model worth in comparison with final yr, with its model portfolio and funding worth exceeding $20 billion in 2025. Moreover, e& secured a place among the many prime 10 most dear telecommunications manufacturers globally.
ADNOC maintained its place as essentially the most precious model within the UAE for the seventh consecutive yr. Remarkably, ADNOC’s model worth elevated by 25% in comparison with the earlier yr, reaching $18.9 billion in 2025. This represents a development of over 300% since 2017, making it the second most dear model within the Center East.
Emirates maintained its regional and international management in model worth throughout the worldwide aviation sector for 2025. The model worth of the UAE provider elevated by 26.5%, reaching $8.365 billion.
Model Finance additionally analysed what manufacturers have grown essentially the most since 2020. Whereas know-how is clearly a high-growth sector over the long run, the depth of Model Finance knowledge and analysis supplies a revealing and nuanced view. The evaluation consists of TikTok – though Model Finance started valuing the model in 2022, its 79% development in 4 years places it in the identical league as the opposite high-growth manufacturers.
1. TikTok/Douyin: model worth of USD105.8 billion, up from USD59.0 billion (in 2022)
2. DraftKings: model worth of USD5.1 billion, up from USD18 million in 2020
3. Fanduel: model worth of USD7.0 billion, up from USD56 million in 2020
4. NVIDIA: model worth of USD87.9 billion, up from USD4.7 billion in 2020
5. AMD: model worth of USD11.0 billion, up from USD1.4 billion in 2020
6. Pinduoduo: model worth of USD13.0 billion, up from USD2.5 billion in 2020
7. BYD: model worth of USD14.0 billion, up from USD3.1 billion in 2020
8. Apple: model worth of USD574.5 billion, up from USD140.5 billion in 2020
9. TSMC: model worth of USD34.2 billion, up from US8.6 billion in 2020
10. Microsoft: model worth of USD461.1 billion, up from USD117.1 billion in 2020
11. Lilly: model worth of USD8.0 billion, up from USD2.1 billion in 2020
American playing manufacturers DraftKings and Fanduel are cashing in as US legislators and courts legalise on-line playing and overturn previous legal guidelines stopping betting. Semiconductor manufacturers NVIDIA, AMD, and TSMC advance new applied sciences, whereas tech giants Apple and Microsoft lead from the entrance, persevering with to innovate from their dominant positions in an evolving and rising market. E-Commerce model Pinduoduo is following in Apple and Microsoft’s footsteps, investing in an ecosystem that merges social networking with on-line purchasing. Electrical automobile maker BYD and pharmaceutical model Lilly are assembly the fashionable calls for of evolving shoppers.
David Haigh, Chairman and CEO of Model Finance, commented:
“Our evaluation of what manufacturers have grown essentially the most since 2020 reveals that know-how firms shouldn’t have a monopoly on sustained model development. This longer-term view additionally reinforces one other vital international development: how Chinese language manufacturers like TikTok, Pinduoduo, and BYD are main the cost by creating worth, and difficult established model leaders. As China continues to refine its brand-building methods and give attention to high quality, we anticipate to see extra Chinese language firms enter the worldwide market in 2025.”
Though these manufacturers grew in several methods, typically talking, their paths over the previous 5 years have been natural and linear. Not one of the ten manufacturers with the most important worth development belong to the sector that has added essentially the most worth since 2020: Media, up 125%, encapsulating the transformation of media manufacturers from information supply to indispensable instruments used every day around the globe.
Google, the world’s third most dear model, noticed its model worth improve by 24% to USD413 billion. Ongoing investments in AI have enhanced Google’s popularity for innovation whereas strengthening its client attraction and belief.
Amazon, with a 15% improve in model worth to USD356.4 billion, continues to combine AI throughout its operations, from personalised suggestions to superior logistics. These efforts have solidified its popularity as a customer-focused model, driving sustained development.
For the second consecutive yr, WeChat is the world’s strongest model, with a Model Power Index (BSI) rating of 95.2 out of 100 and an AAA+ model energy score. WeChat’s complete ecosystem and seamless integration functionality proceed to propel the Chinese language model as a world chief.
e& is the quickest rising model worth on the earth this yr, posting an eight-fold improve in model worth to $15.3 billion. That is the ultimate stage of a 3-year group rebrand, staged to transition model fairness from Etisalat to e& as a platform for worldwide development. The like for like model worth development is 13% versus the mixed worth of the manufacturers in 2024. Nvidia has the very best natural development – 98% – and is the second quickest rising model worth for 2025.
World financial development is anticipated to stay stagnant at 2.8% in 2025, mirroring 2024 and falling in need of the three.2% pre-pandemic common, in response to United Nations forecasts. In distinction, the world’s 500 most dear manufacturers are thriving, with their complete worth rising 10% year-on-year, from USD8.6 trillion in 2024 to just about USD9.5 trillion in 2025, in response to Model Finance knowledge.
Apple leads the best way amongst 193 American manufacturers featured within the rating, collectively contributing over half of the overall. China and Germany observe because the second and third most dear international locations, with 69 and 27 manufacturers respectively, accounting for 15% and 6% of the overall model worth. Throughout sectors, banking leads with 79 manufacturers contributing 13%, adopted by retail with 45 manufacturers at 11%. Media ranks third, with 23 manufacturers representing 10%.
Model Finance is launching the World 500 at Davos on the twenty first of January 2025 in partnership with Infosys, the quickest rising IT Companies model during the last 5 years.
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