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CompaniesMarketCap — Largest Banks by Market Cap vs Data.gov — Banking Datasets Catalog
Which distributors data provider data fits your job: CompaniesMarketCap — Largest Banks by Market Cap, or Data.gov — Banking Datasets Catalog. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
CompaniesMarketCap — Largest Banks by Market Cap
Data.gov — Banking Datasets Catalog
Where the fields line up
No shared field names. These two answer different questions.
| Field | CompaniesMarketCap — Largest Banks by Market Cap | Data.gov — Banking Datasets Catalog |
|---|---|---|
Rank | Position in the descending market-capitalization ranking. | not in this set |
Name | Bank or bank holding company name as displayed on the ranking, including logo-attributed legal branding. | not in this set |
Symbol | Ticker symbol, suffixed with an exchange code for non-US listings such as 601939.SS for the Shanghai line of China Construction Bank. | not in this set |
marketcap | Market capitalization in US dollars at full precision with no scaling applied - divide by 1e9 for billions in presentation layers. | not in this set |
price (USD) | Latest available share price converted to US dollars; carries an end-of-day character because quotes settle behind live trading rather than tracking it. | not in this set |
country | Country of the listing or headquarters shown for each institution - the grouping key behind any geographic cut of the table. | not in this set |
title | not in this set | Dataset title as registered in the catalog. |
organization | not in this set | Publishing organization responsible for the dataset. |
description | not in this set | Short abstract of the dataset shown on the result card. |
Dataset Last Updated | not in this set | Timestamp of the most recent update recorded for the dataset. |
resource formats | not in this set | Format badges for available resources: csv, html, json, xml, zip, kml. |
Search relevance / Views last month / Catalog Last Checked | not in this set | Catalog metrics displayed per result: relevance score, prior-month views, and when the catalog link was last verified. |
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| CompaniesMarketCap — Largest Banks by Market Cap | Data.gov — Banking Datasets Catalog | |
|---|---|---|
| Entity identifier | `Name` + `Symbol` (JPMorgan Chase, JPM; exchange-suffixed abroad, e.g. 601939.SS) | `title` + `organization` (Bank Failures and Assistance Data; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) |
| Ordering key | `Rank`, fixed 1 through 695 | `Search relevance` score (114.81 observed) plus `Views last month` counts |
| Measured value | `marketcap` in raw dollars (934173016064) and `price (USD)` (351.432) | None - catalog cards describe records rather than measure companies |
| Place attribution | `country` of listing (United States, China, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates) | Agency tier implied by `organization` (federal, state, county, city publishers) |
| Recency stamp | None among the six columns; history lives on per-company pages | `Dataset Last Updated` timestamp plus a separate catalog verification date per card |
| Descriptor text | None - rows carry numbers and labels only | `description` abstract on every result card |
| Format declaration | None stated - one fixed tabular shape | `resource formats` badges (csv, html, json, xml, zip, kml) |
What each does better
CompaniesMarketCap — Largest Banks by Market Cap
Nobody assembles a global league table from this record; they receive one.
A global cast. Coverage is banks listed on exchanges worldwide: China Construction Bank sits third at $410,535,465,739 and HSBC fourth at $355,755,687,936, with symbols suffixed by exchange (601939.SS, AJMANBANK.AE). Currency-switched variants cover EUR, GBP, INR, CAD, AUD, NZD, HKD and SGD. Any single-country alternative stops at the border this record crosses.
Data.gov — Banking Datasets Catalog
Regulatory depth. The top banking results are dominated by the FDIC: Bank Failures and Assistance Data, a complete record of failure and assistance transactions of FDIC-insured institutions from 1934 to present; FDIC Bank Locations; Historical Bank Data; and the Uniform Bank Performance Report. CompaniesMarketCap records valuations, not supervision.
Multi-agency breadth. About 3,936 datasets match 'bank', published not only by the FDIC but by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (bank holding company applications), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Bank Participation Reports) and state, county and city agencies - all drawn from 552,271 indexed datasets.
Catalog hygiene. Every result card shows a search relevance score, prior-month views, a verification stamp for when the catalog last checked the entry, and per-resource format badges, so an evaluator sees quality signals before choosing which record to pursue.
Wider persona reach. The record tags regional banks as a secondary industry alongside Distributors, pulling compliance and policy researchers into scope - personas a valuation league table never addresses.
The verdict
Verdict: sample both, pick by fit. Let the unit of analysis decide. If the question sizes companies - the largest banks on earth, a peer group for a valuation screen, a country mix for an expansion deck - CompaniesMarketCap — Largest Banks by Market Cap is shaped for it. If the question audits institutions - failure history since 1934, branch footprints, Uniform Bank Performance Report ratios for credit work - Data.gov — Banking Datasets Catalog holds records CompaniesMarketCap does not attempt.
Three quick tests settle most cases. Need a non-US bank? Only CompaniesMarketCap travels. Need a defunct or unlisted institution? Only Data.gov's catalog reaches it. Need the market view and the supervisory record in one deliverable? That is the both-of-them case, and it comes up constantly.
Sample both, pick by fit. See CompaniesMarketCap — Largest Banks by Market Cap · See Data.gov — Banking Datasets Catalog
Fair questions
Is CompaniesMarketCap — Largest Banks by Market Cap better than Data.gov — Banking Datasets Catalog?
Different instruments, tied on craft - both score 7 out of 10. Data.gov wins when the question is supervision: FDIC failure history from 1934, bank locations and performance reports across about 3,936 cataloged datasets. Many desks keep both.
Which dataset covers more banking entities?
It depends on the count you mean. CompaniesMarketCap holds 695 listed banks worldwide worth $15.104 T combined - a company roster. Data.gov indexes about 3,936 US government datasets matching 'bank', including unlisted, merged and long-defunct institutions - a wider net, but an index of records rather than a list of companies.
Do the two datasets overlap anywhere?
On US listed banks only. JPMorgan Chase, ranked first at $934,173,016,064, and Bank of America, second at $432,396,599,296, have counterparts in Data.gov's FDIC and Federal Reserve records. China Construction Bank and HSBC exist solely on the CompaniesMarketCap side, because FDIC coverage stops at insured US institutions.
Which one reaches further back in time?
Data.gov, decisively. Its flagship FDIC records run from 1934 to present, capturing every failure and assistance transaction of insured institutions. CompaniesMarketCap's table is a current-state ranking; its deepest history lives on individual company pages as market-cap charts. For failure-era research, this pairing is not close.
Can Datadory deliver both datasets together?
Yes. Either record arrives alone or merged onto one delivery calendar, aligned on identifiers so the join is finished before it reaches you - delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call. Name the banks, agencies and date windows when you request the sample and it lands pre-cut with field definitions attached.