Defining an “ecommerce” firm is subjective. Yahoo Finance’s listing of publicly-traded ecommerce shares is a mishmash of companies in a number of industries and verticals — retailers, marketplaces, and platforms. It contains Etsy, for instance, however not Shopify. Walmart is included, however not House Depot.

Different knowledge suppliers have separate groupings. CompaniesMarketCap.com lists 89 shares in its “e-commerce” class. Shopify is on that listing, as is Copart (auto auctions) and plenty of others.

My very own listing of high publicly-traded ecommerce corporations is a mixture of these sources and extra. It’s dominated by U.S. and Chinese language corporations.

Amazon ranks first in market capitalization at an enormous $1.287 trillion, dwarfing its rivals. (Market capitalization is the variety of excellent shares instances the share worth. It’s a tough indicator of an organization’s dimension or relevance.)

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When it comes to quarterly income, Walmart ranked first at $152.3 billion, which incorporates physical-store gross sales. Amazon got here in second with $127.4 billion, adopted by China-based retailer JD.com with $35 billion.

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Amazon topped the listing when it comes to internet earnings throughout the quarter ended March 2023, coming in at $3.2 billion, simply edging out the Chinese language multinational ecommerce firm Alibaba.

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SimilarWeb, the analytics and knowledge agency, estimates the visitors of internet sites worldwide. With 2.3 billion web site visits in Could 2023 alone, Amazon was by far the preferred ecommerce website per SimilarWeb. eBay was second.