Top 10 Most Expensive Stocks In The World 2021【Deric Business Class】 - YouTube

Hey guys, welcome to Deric Business class.  In this video, I’m gonna introduce to you,  

the top 10 most expensive stocks in the world  in 2021. For your information, all the stock  

prices used in this video were quoted as on  10th of February 2021. Alright, let’s start.

Number ten, Chipotle Mexican  Grill, $1,543 per share.  

Chipotle Mexican Grill, also known simply as  Chipotle, is a restaurant chain in the U.S., U.K.,  

Canada, Germany and France, that prepares Mexican  food, mainly burritos and tacos. Chipotle is also  

one of the first chains of restaurants of the  Fast Casual concept, which implies the speed,  

and convenience of service as in fast food  restaurants, but at the same time, it focuses  

on the absence of artificial and semi-finished  products, incorporates a calmer design and  

reusable tableware. The company was founded  in 1993 by Steve Ells, and is headquartered in  

Newport Beach, California. Today, there are more  than 2,500 Chipotle restaurants in the U.S. alone,  

and the company’s annual gross profit for year  2020 is, $1.04B, a 8.88% decline from year 2019.

Number nine, Cable One Inc, $2,086 per  share. Cable One Inc. is a US-based  

cable services provider, and a former  subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company.  

The company’s name and line of activity date back  to 1997; prior to that time, the company was known  

as, Post-Newsweek Cable. Cable One is the 7th  largest provider of cable services in the U.S.,  

servicing more than 800,000  customers in 21 states.  

Its primary range of services includes, high-speed  Internet, cable television, and telephone service.  

In 2019, the company rebranded its business as  Sparklight, which include four primary product  

lines: Residential data, Residential video,  Residential voice, and Business services. It  

is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, even though  they do not provide services in the Phoenix area.  

Cable One’s gross profit for year 2020 is,  $0.89B, a 19.17% increase from year 2019.

Number eight, Alphabet Inc, $2,095 per share. The  internationally famous Internet company, Google  

recently changed its official name to Alphabet.  Alphabet Inc. is engaged in technology business.  

The Company provides web-based  search, advertisements, maps,  

software applications, mobile operating systems,  consumer content, enterprise solutions, commerce,  

and hardware products through its subsidiaries.  Google was founded in 1998, by Sergey Brin  

and Larry Page, Alphabet was only founded in  2015, and subsequently made the parent company  

of Google and other related products. Alphabet is  headquartered in Mountain View, California. The  

company’s annual gross profit for year 2020 is,  $97.80B, which is 8.71% increase from year 2019.

Number seven, Booking Holdings, $2,142 per  share. Booking Holdings, previously known as The  

Priceline Group Inc, is the world's largest travel  service provider, based in Norwalk, Connecticut.  

The list of company services includes, car  rental, ticket sales, reservation of offices  

and hotel rooms, and more. The history of the  corporation began in 1997, when entrepreneur,  

Jay Walker, founded The Priceline Group Inc.  In February 2018, the name of the company was  

changed from The Priceline Group Inc., to Booking  Holdings. As the founders wanted to emphasize  

the importance of the corporation's most popular  brand – Booking.com. The company operates websites  

in about 40 languages and 200 countries. However,  due to COVID 19 pandemic, Booking Holdings’ gross  

profit for year 2020 has dropped to $8.90B,  which is a 40.45% decline from year 2019.

Number six, Seaboard Corporation, $3,212 per  share. Seaboard Corporation is a diversified  

conglomerate, that operates in agriculture and  maritime transportation, in several industries  

around the world. In the United States, the  company is mainly engaged in pork production and  

ocean transportation. Internationally, Seaboard  is also involved in commodity merchandising,  

grain processing, sugar production, and  electrical power generation. The company  

was founded by Otto Bresky. The parent company,  Seaboard Corporation is based in the Kansas City,  

suburb of Merriam. The gross profit  of the company in 2019 is, $491m.

Number five, Amazon Inc, $3,287 per share. Amazon  is a well-known American retail company, selling  

and delivering various products over the Internet.  Its headquarter is in Seattle, Washington. The  

company was established in 1994 by Jeff Bezos.  Amazon sells a range of products including,  

electronics, video games, jewelleries, toys,  furniture, food, software, apparel, and more.  

Also, it makes and sells consumer electronics  items, such as Kindle e-book readers and Fire  

tablets. Amazon is also the leading player  in the cloud infrastructure services market.  

The popularity of Amazon service  soared, thanks to high-quality goods,  

low prices, prompt delivery, and a wide  assortment. This made Amazon’s annual gross  

profit for 2020 achieved $152.76B,  which is 32.85% increase from 2019.

Number four, N-V-R Inc, $4,702 per share. This  company was first founded as Ryan Homes in 1940.  

It changed its name to N-V-R Inc in 1980.  N-V-R Inc.’s main business is home building.  

It operates a mortgage banking and title services  business. They construct and sell buildings and  

homes under the brand names, Heartland Homes,  NV Homes, Rymarc, and Ryan Homes. The company  

primarily operates on the East Coast of the  United States. Up to date, there are over  

450,000 homeowners have trusted NVR for their  families and their future. During year 2020, this  

made the company’s annual gross profit for 2020  achieved $1.6B, which is 3.95% increase from 2019.

Number three, Next Plc, $10,653 per share. Next  Plc stock is listed on London Stock Exchange,  

and it is the most expensive stock in the UK, with  a price of around £7,662 for one stock. Next Plc  

is a British multinational footwear, clothing,  and home products retailer, founded by Joseph  

Hepworth in Leeds in 1864, as a tailor  under the name of Joseph Hepworth & Son. The  

headquarter is based in Enderby, Leicestershire.  Nowadays, Next Plc operates around 700 stores,  

with 500 in the UK and Ireland, and about 200 in  continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Next  

Plc is the largest clothing retailer by sales  in the UK, overtaking Marks & Spencer in 2012.  

Its other ventures include, Next Sourcing, for  its own brand products; and Lipsy, which designs  

and markets its own branded fashion products for  women via online, wholesale, and retail channels.

Number two, Lindt & Sprüngli AG, $95,286 per  share. Lindt is listed on Swiss Stock Exchange,  

and it is the most expensive stock in Switzerland,  with a price of around 84,900 Swiss Franc for  

one stock. Lindt & Sprüngli AG, popularly  known as Lindt, is a Swiss confectionary  

and chocolatier company founded in 1845. It  is renowned for chocolate bars and truffles,  

among other sweets. The company began way back  in 1836, when David Sprüngli-Schwarz and his son,  

Rudolf Sprüngli-Ammann purchased a small  confectionery shop in Zürich. In 1994,  

Lindt bought the Austrian chocolatier Hofbauer  Österreich, then in 1997, it acquired the Italian  

chocolatier Caffarel, and in 1998, the  American chocolatier Ghirardelli. Lindt  

operates six factories in Europe and the UK, and  eight chocolate cafés in Australia. Along with  

the chocolate bars and sweets, the company also  produces ice cream and is famous for its season  

chocolate figures: Easter bunnies, Christmas deers  and bears, figures of Santa, snowmen, and so on.

Number one, Berkshire Hathaway, $361,290 per  share. Yes, you are right, its class A shares  

traded at $361,290 per share on the NYSE, which  makes it the most expensive stock in the world.  

The company is known for its permanent owner,  an American investor, and an entrepreneur,  

Warren Buffett. It is headquartered in Omaha,  Nebraska. The company was originally founded in  

1839 as a textile manufacturing company, before  Warren Buffett bought majority stake in 1964.  

Berkshire Hathaway is a multinational  conglomerate, that wholly owns the companies,  

FlightSafety International, NetJets, Fruit of the  Loom, GEICO, Helzberg Diamonds, Lubrizol, Dairy  

Queen, and BNSF. The company also has significant  minority holdings in blue chip companies such as,  

Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, and  Wells Fargo. Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO,  

Warren Buffett, is known as the “Oracle of  Omaha”, for his shrewd investing acumen.  

Alright, that’s all for this video. Thanks  for watching! See you in the next one. Bye~