FX.co ★ Top-7 most expensive Runet companies

The leader among the most expensive Runet companies in Russia and CIS countries is Yandex. Yandex operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 65% market share in that country. It also develops a number of Internet-based services and products. Yandex ranked as the 4th largest search engine worldwide. The cost of the company today is about 5.2 billion dollars. According to experts. the revenue per employee is equal to approximately 8.5 million rubles. The company's profit in the Russian national currency has risen by 38% this year. Most of our revenues are derived from contextual advertising, which delivers ads for products and services based on what web users are looking for. In addition to serving advertisements on the search results pages, the company runs ads on thousands of third-party websites that make up Yandex Advertising Network. The enterprise became profitable in 2002 and its revenues have been continually growing ever since. In May 2011 Yandex went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange, under the ticker YNDX.

Mail.Ru Group is the largest internet company in the Russian-speaking world. The origins of the Company date back to 1998. Since its formation as a group in 2005, and particularly since the end of 2008, the Company has moved rapidly to become the leading integrated communications and entertainment platform in the Russian-speaking world. Today the company owns three sites: Mail.ru, Vkontakte.ru, Odnoklassniki.ru. Although the revenue per employee of this company is higher as compared with the winner of the rating and makes 10.8 million rubles, the cost of the Mail.ru Group is estimated at 3.3 billion dollars. A key interest of the company belongs to the billionaire Alisher Usmanov, the main USM owner.

The third place among the most expensive Russian Internet companies is occupied by the online hypermarket Yulmart. The firm carries out sale of household appliances, of computers, components in the largest Russian cities. Formats sales, which practices "Yulmart" – the online store, an offline point. Thus, the brand combines retail businesses as online destinations, and the traditional. Yulmart" was founded in 2008. To date, the company's value is estimated at 1.4 billion dollars. The revenue per employee is about 9.7 million rubles. By the next year, the domestic Internet retailer plans to attract $ 1 billion for its own development. Experts note that the company's popularity is growing quite rapidly. It is believed that to the IPO (the company intends to place 25% on the exchange by 2016), the value of Yulmart could be about 5-6 billion dollars.

The fourth place is taken by the Citylink company. The enterprise was founded in 2008 as its main competitor Yulmart. It is noteworthy that Citylink is also an online store of technology and electronics. Citylink is a retail project of a large distributor of computer equipment Merlion. The company's cost is equal to 990 million dollars, and the revenue per employee makes 12.8 million rubles.

The Avito company, founded in 2007, occupies the fifth line of this rating. Avito is a Russian classified advertisements website with sections devoted to general good for sale, jobs, real estate, personals, cars for sale, and services. In 2010, Avito collected a large amount of capital from venture capitalist Northzone. In 2012, Avito launched in Egypt and Morocco, where in a few months became those country's biggest classified ads site. In 2013, Avito merged with its Russians competitors Slando.ru and OLX.ru to become the Russian market leader for classified ads and was later purchased by Naspers for 1.2 billion dollars. In December 2013, Avito had around 23.9 million users. On average, Avito's users post more than 500,000 new ads daily and the overall ads are about 30 million active listings. Nowadays, one of the most popular boards of ads is estimated at 830 million dollars, and the revenue per employee is a record 18.7 million rubles.

The sixth place is given to the domestic corporation Ozon Holdings. OZON.ru is the first Russian online retailer. It was established in 1998 by the Russian software house Reksoft. Its main goods are books, electronics, music, and movies. The key shareholders are Baring Vostock, Index Ventures, ru-Net, Rakuten, Intel Capital, Holzbrink and Cisco. In September 2011, Ozon raised $100 million of which 95% were invested into its four key businesses: the online retailer Ozon.ru, the shipping company O-courier, Ozon.Travel, and the shoe and accessory retailer Sapato.ru which was acquired in February 2012. In 2016, Ozon had 14.5 million registered users and $250MM in revenue, a daily audience of 750 thousand visitors, 2.2 million SKU's and it employed 1,700 staff.Its revenues might reach $1 billion by 2014 according to Morgan Stanley research. Today, the cost of Ozon Holdings is 694 million dollars, and the revenue per employee is about 12.2 million rubles.

The Wildberries company closes the top seven wealthiest Runet enterprises. The company is one of the leading online stores in the Russian market, founded in 2004. To date, the online store is estimated at 665 million dollars, and the revenue per employee is approximately 3.6 million rubles.