How much was the Dutch East India Company Worth?

That would place its modern-day valuation in the $7.4 trillion range, making the Dutch East India Company the largest company in history. Sources: Sources: Barry Ritholtz, Marc Faber, Richard Dale, Bloomberg, Clem Chambers, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Finance, and Sheridan Titman. Adjusted for inflation.Aug 22, 2012 read more

Over four centuries ago, the Dutch East India Company made history as the world’s first IPO. Known as VOC in the Netherlands, the company was one of the most successful ventures in the last several hundred years. When adjusted for inflation, its highest market capitalization would be worth over $7 TRILLION today (i.e. ten times the size of Apple). read more

The Dutch East India Company, was, for all intents and purposes, its own country – a country whose sole purpose was to make the Dutch government, and private investors, richer. The Dutch East India Company and the British trading companies eventually banded together in 1620, but by 1623, everything had fallen apart. read more

When calculating for inflation, if the Dutch East India Company were around today they would be worth an insane $7.5 trillion dollars. To give you some perspective, Apple has a market capital of $736 billion dollars, while that’s very high it doesn’t even come close to the Dutch East India Company. read more