(BFM Stock Exchange) – The Bestbrokers.com site has established this classification by simply dividing the profits from large groups listed by their global workforce. Tech and finance companies dominate this ranking on the basis of the profits identified in 2024.

Even if it does not always constitute the most relevant financial indicator to assess the good health on a listed company (the generation of cash is sometimes much more critical), net profit has the merit of simplicity.

The Bestbrokers.com site has retained this line of the income statement to establish a classification of the listed groups on the stock market which releases the most important benefits by employee.

This ratio “directly measures individual contributions to the success of the company. It is also a good indicator of the productivity of a company and the efficiency and the rationalization of its operations”, explains Paul Hoffman, market analyst for Bestbrokers.com.

To establish its ranking, the site has screened the 235 largest listed companies in the world by relying on companiesmarketcap.com data (arrested on April 7, 2025), retaining their net profit on the last published financial year and then bringing it to the total workforce of each company, based on their annual report. The site then harmonized the dollar data.

Bestbrokers.com thus arrives in the classification reproduced in this infographic below:

The first 20 world companies with the highest employee benefit, according to the Bestbrokers.com ranking have made a whole dizzying net profit of more than $ 535 billion.

Of the 20 most efficient companies in the Bestbrokers.com ranking, 16 has their headquarters in the United States, China has two companies, while Sweden and Saudi Arabia each count a representative.

Tech in mind

In 2023, the petroleum sector outrained the first places in this ranking with Saudi Aramco as a leader. The Saudi oil major then claimed a profit per employee of $ 1.65 million. This year, it is only third in this ranking despite a net profit of 106 billion euros, certainly down 14% over a year.

While waiting to reveal the name of the first group of this ranking, let’s dwell on the case of the second. The latter is not very well known but its products, yes. It is the American company Altria Group, which holds the tobacco brands Philip Morris, Malboro. This company generated a profit of 11.24 billion dollars in 2024, but the group had at the end of December 2024 only 6,200 employees, hence a very comfortable profit of $ 1.81 million.

Which company sits at the top of this ranking? The hierarchy was indeed somewhat shaken by the development of demand for artificial intelligence solutions. And by its emblematic representative, Nvidia which therefore occupies the first place of the listed groups which give off the most important benefits by employee.

The main manufacturer of fleas dedicated to artificial intelligence, leads the ranking with a net profit of $ 2.024 million per employee.

NVIDIA claims a significantly lower workforce than that of many technology giants, including Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Apple, which allowed it to delight the first place in this classification. At the end of 2024, the company had a total of 36,000 employees, more than six times less than Microsoft, who declared a workforce of 228,000 people during the same period.

“Due to the high demand for its chips that feed generative AI, cloud computing and automatic learning, NVIDIA has recorded extraordinary growth in its profits while retaining a reduced team which enabled it to consolidate its position as undisputed leader in the classification of net profit by employee,” notes Paul Hoffman.

In the year 2024-2025, closed last January, Nvidia gave a profit of almost $ 73 billion, up 130% over a year.

A financial sector that is doing well

Technological companies are well positioned in this classification of net profits by employee, which, according to Bestbrokers.com, proves their ability to generate significant profits with relatively reduced teams. This universe also benefited from the global scope of artificial intelligence platforms and technologies. The 45 technological companies in the ranking declare on average $ 213,515 per person.

The American software group Applovin arrives in fourth row (1.01 million dollars), Meta which was fifteenth last year, leaps in ninth place (841,900 dollars), followed closely by Arista Networks (646,400 dollars), an American group specializing in technological solutions for Data Centers which was located previously. Netflix is ​​in 14th place (622,300 dollars) followed by Apple, 15th, with $ 571,600 profits per employee.

The financial sector is also very well represented. According to Bestbrokers.com, companies in this sector have taken advantage of automation, investment income and priced services to achieve high profitability with reduced staff.

Thus, CME Group, the owner of the largest exchange of derivative products in the world, is sixth with net profit per employee of $ 925,900. The active management giant KKR arrives in twelfth place with 636,400 dollars, followed by the specialist in financial services Visa ($ 624,800) and by another active management player, Blackstone (567,200 dollars). The Swedish investment company Investor AB arrives in 18th place with $ 546,500 … ahead of an alphabet hair and its 546,100 dollars in net profit per employee.

In continental Europe, it is Investor AB who dominates the debates. This Swedish group has participations in many Swedish groups listed, such as the SEB bank, the Defense SAAB Bank, the Electrolux household appliances, the Suédo-British Pharmaceutical Group Astrazeneca or the Tools Group for the Husqvarna Garden and Forest.

The Swedish investment company is followed by Ferrari. The Italian brand with a prancing horse is second in this European classification, generating a profit of $ 1.58 billion in 2024 thanks to the efforts of its 5,435 employees, hence a benefit per person of 291,400 euros. The Americano-Suisse Chubb insurer, side in New York, completes the podium (224,380 dollars).

On the side of French companies, the luxury group Hermès (212,000 dollars) points to fifth place while the total oil group closes the market of the European top 10, with net profit per employee of 152,150 dollars.