A take from the Fortune 500 list of the top 100


Top 25
Wal-Mart retakes the lead as the world's biggest company. See which other companies top our list.


Most profitable
Exxon Mobil leads our list of top earners this year. Which other companies are among the most profitable on the planet?



company...sales...profits
1 Wal-Mart Stores 351,139.0 11,284.0
2 Exxon Mobil 347,254.0 39,500.0
3 Royal Dutch Shell 318,845.0 25,442.0
4 BP 274,316.0 22,000.0
5 General Motors 207,349.0 -1,978.0
6 Toyota Motor 204,746.4 14,055.8
7 Chevron 200,567.0 17,138.0
8 DaimlerChrysler 190,191.4 4,048.8
9 ConocoPhillips 172,451.0 15,550.0
10 Total 168,356.7 14,764.7
11 General Electric 168,307.0 20,829.0
12 Ford Motor 160,126.0 -12,613.0
13 ING Group 158,274.3 9,650.8
14 Citigroup 146,777.0 21,538.0
15 AXA 139,738.1 6,379.9
16 Volkswagen 132,323.1 3,449.0
17 Sinopec 131,636.0 3,703.1
18 Crédit Agricole 128,481.3 8,975.8
19 Allianz 125,346.0 8,808.9
20 Fortis 121,201.8 5,459.0
21 Bank of America Corp. 117,017.0 21,133.0
22 HSBC Holdings 115,361.0 15,789.0
23 American International Group 113,194.0 14,048.0
24 China National Petroleum 110,520.2 13,265.3
25 BNP Paribas 109,213.6 9,169.0
26 ENI 109,014.2 11,564.1
27 UBS 107,834.8 9,776.6
28 Siemens 107,341.7 3,728.2
29 State Grid 107,185.5 2,237.7
30 Assicurazioni Generali 101,810.7 3,017.2
31 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 99,973.0 14,444.0
32 Carrefour 99,014.7 2,846.2
33 Berkshire Hathaway 98,539.0 11,015.0
34 Pemex 97,469.3 4,151.2
35 Deutsche Bank 96,151.5 7,510.3
36 Dexia Group 95,846.6 3,450.3
37 Honda Motor 94,790.5 5,064.1
38 McKesson 93,574.0 913.0
39 Verizon Communications 93,221.0 6,197.0
40 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 91,998.3 4,077.4
41 Hewlett-Packard 91,658.0 6,198.0
42 International Business Machines 91,424.0 9,492.0
43 Valero Energy 91,051.0 5,463.0
44 Home Depot 90,837.0 5,761.0
45 Nissan Motor 89,502.1 3,939.6
46 Samsung Electronics 89,476.2 8,301.9
47 Credit Suisse 89,354.4 9,034.8
48 Hitachi 87,615.4 -280.4
49 Société Générale 84,485.7 6,550.5
50 Aviva 83,487.0 4,075.3
51 Cardinal Health 81,895.1 1,000.1
52 Gazprom 81,115.0 20,321.3
53 E.ON 80,994.0 6,344.8
54 Royal Bank of Scotland 80,983.0 11,762.2
55 Tesco 79,978.8 3,544.9
56 Nestlé 79,872.1 7,335.9
57 Deutsche Post 79,502.2 2,403.9
58 HBOS 79,238.8 7,136.8
59 Matsushita Electric Industrial 77,871.1 1,856.8
60 Deutsche Telekom 76,969.1 3,971.0
61 Morgan Stanley 76,688.0 7,472.0
62 Metro 75,131.0 1,324.9
63 Électricité de France 73,939.1 7,032.3
64 U.S. Postal Service 72,650.0 900.0
65 Petrobras 72,347.0 12,826.0
66 UnitedHealth Group 71,542.0 4,159.0
67 ABN AMRO Holding 71,217.8 5,997.2
68 Peugeot 71,005.7 220.8
69 Sony 70,924.8 1,080.1
70 Merrill Lynch 70,591.0 7,499.0
71 Altria Group 70,324.0 12,022.0
72 Goldman Sachs Group 69,353.0 9,537.0
73 LG 68,754.1 481.6
74 Procter & Gamble 68,222.0 8,684.0
75 Santander Central Hispano Group 68,050.6 9,530.3
76 Hyundai Motor 66,666.0 1,319.0
77 TelefĂłnica 66,372.3 7,820.2
78 Statoil 66,280.3 6,331.6
79 Prudential 66,133.5 1,608.0
80 Kroger 66,111.2 1,114.9
81 BASF 66,006.8 4,034.0
82 France Télécom 65,899.3 5,193.0
83 Barclays 65,609.1 8,410.0
84 Fiat 65,031.1 1,336.2
85 Zurich Financial Services 65,000.0 4,527.0
86 AT&T 63,055.0 7,356.0
87 Boeing 61,530.0 2,215.0
88 BMW 61,476.7 3,598.3
89 AmerisourceBergen 61,203.1 467.7
90 Repsol YPF 60,920.9 3,919.5
91 Toshiba 60,841.9 1,175.0
92 Marathon Oil 60,643.0 5,234.0
93 State Farm Insurance Cos. 60,528.0 5,315.5
94 Costco Wholesale 60,151.2 1,103.2
95 Vodafone 59,811.3 -10,262.3
96 Target 59,490.0 2,787.0
97 UniCredit Group 59,119.3 6,835.0
98 SK 59,001.9 1,461.0
99 Mittal Steel 58,870.0 5,226.0
100 Munich Re Group 58,183.2 4,316.0

 

Amazing to recognize how far down the list some of the companies are as well as how far up some of the others are.

Looking at those numbers confirm I'll never be on it.

 

Some of that is creative accounting while some of it is the truth.

Neg. numbers for 2 out of the 3 in Detroit isn't a good thing.