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Fortune 500
FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Full list
1 Wal-Mart Stores 288,189.0 10,267.0
2 Exxon Mobil 270,772.0 25,330.0
3 General Motors 193,517.0 2,805.0
4 Ford Motor 172,233.0 3,487.0
5 General Electric 152,363.0 16,593.0
6 ChevronTexaco 147,967.0 13,328.0
7 ConocoPhillips 121,663.0 8,129.0
8 Citigroup 108,276.0 17,046.0
9 American Intl. Group 98,610.0 11,050.0
10 Intl. Business Machines 96,293.0 8,430.0
11 Hewlett-Packard 79,905.0 3,497.0
12 Berkshire Hathaway 74,382.0 7,308.0
13 Home Depot 73,094.0 5,001.0
14 Verizon Communications 71,563.3 7,830.7
15 McKesson 69,506.1 646.5
16 Cardinal Health 65,130.6 1,474.5
17 Altria Group 64,440.0 9,416.0
18 Bank of America Corp. 63,324.0 14,143.0
19 State Farm Insurance Cos 58,818.9 5,308.6
20 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 56,931.0 4,466.0
21 Kroger 56,434.4 -128.0
22 Valero Energy 53,918.6 1,803.8
23 AmerisourceBergen 53,179.0 468.4
24 Pfizer 52,921.0 11,361.0
25 Boeing 52,553.0 1,872.0
26 Procter & Gamble 51,407.0 6,481.0
27 Target 49,934.0 3,198.0
28 Dell 49,205.0 3,043.0
29 Costco Wholesale 48,107.0 882.4
30 Johnson & Johnson 47,348.0 8,509.0
31 Marathon Oil 45,444.0 1,261.0
32 Time Warner 42,869.0 3,364.0
33 SBC Communications 41,098.0 5,887.0
34 Dow Chemical 40,161.0 2,797.0
35 Albertson's 40,052.0 444.0
36 Morgan Stanley 39,549.0 4,486.0
37 MetLife 39,535.0 2,758.0
38 Walgreen 37,508.2 1,360.2
39 United Technologies 37,445.0 2,788.0
40 UnitedHealth Group 37,218.0 2,587.0
41 Microsoft 36,835.0 8,168.0
42 United Parcel Service 36,582.0 3,333.0
43 Lowe's 36,464.0 2,176.0
44 Archer Daniels Midland 36,151.4 494.7
45 Sears Roebuck 36,099.0 -507.0
46 Safeway 35,822.9 560.2
47 Lockheed Martin 35,526.0 1,266.0
48 Medco Health Solutions 35,351.9 481.6
49 Motorola 35,349.0 1,532.0
50 Intel 34,209.0 7,516.0
51 Allstate 33,936.0 3,181.0
52 Wells Fargo 33,876.0 7,014.0
53 Merrill Lynch 32,467.0 4,436.0
54 Walt Disney 30,752.0 2,345.0
55 CVS 30,594.3 918.8
56 AT&T; 30,537.0 -6,469.0
57 Caterpillar 30,251.0 2,035.0
58 Northrop Grumman 29,868.0 1,084.0
59 Goldman Sachs Group 29,839.0 4,553.0
60 Sysco 29,335.4 907.2
61 PepsiCo 29,261.0 4,212.0
62 American Express 29,115.0 3,445.0
63 Delphi 28,700.0 -36.0
64 Prudential Financial 28,348.0 2,256.0
65 Wachovia Corp. 28,067.0 5,214.0
66 DuPont 27,995.0 1,780.0
67 Sprint 27,428.0 -1,012.0
68 New York Life Insurance 27,175.5 1,213.3
69 Viacom 27,054.8 -17,462.2
70 International Paper 26,722.0 -35.0
71 Johnson Controls 26,553.4 817.5
72 Tyson Foods 26,441.0 403.0
73 Caremark Rx 25,801.1 600.3
74 J.C. Penney 25,678.0 524.0
75 Honeywell Intl. 25,601.0 1,281.0
76 Ingram Micro 25,462.1 219.9
77 Best Buy 24,901.0 705.0
78 FedEx 24,710.0 838.0
79 Alcoa 23,960.0 1,310.0
80 HCA 23,502.0 1,246.0
81 TIAA-CREF 23,411.3 540.5
82 Sunoco 23,226.0 605.0
83 Mass. Mutual Life Ins. 23,159.2 677.0
84 Merck 22,938.6 5,813.4
85 St. Paul Travelers Cos. 22,934.0 955.0
86 Duke Energy 22,779.0 1,490.0
87 BellSouth 22,729.0 4,758.0
88 Hartford Financial Services 22,693.0 2,115.0
89 Weyerhaeuser 22,665.0 1,283.0
90 MCI 22,615.0 -4,002.0
91 Cisco Systems 22,045.0 4,401.0
92 Coca-Cola 21,962.0 4,847.0
93 Bristol-Myers Squibb 21,886.0 2,388.0
94 Lehman Brothers Hldgs. 21,250.0 2,369.0
95 Electronic Data Systems 21,033.0 158.0
96 Plains All Amer. Pipeline 20,975.5 130.0
97 Wellpoint 20,815.1 960.1
98 News Corp. 20,802.0 1,533.0
99 Nationwide 20,558.0 1,010.0
100 Abbott Laboratories 20,473.1 3,235.9
From the April 18, 2005 issue
Corrections: for Hilton Hotels and Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
How the states stack up
California 110
Texas 94
New York 90
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Best employers
These companies appear on both the FORTUNE 500 and our ranking of the Best Companies to Work For.
Wal-Mart Stores 1,600,000
McDonald's 438,000
United Parcel Service 384,000
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Most profitable companies
ExxonMobil 25,330.0
Citigroup 17,046.0
General Electric 16,593.0
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Best Investments
Best Investments By Industry: Total Return to Shareholders (1 Year)
Hotels, Casinos, Resorts 66.0%
Health Care: Insurance 51.4%
Metals 47.1%
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Women CEOs of Fortune 500 Companies
mapEven with Carly Fiorina's departure from Hewlett-Packard, there are more women running FORTUNE 500 companies on this year's list than there were last year. Currently, nine FORTUNE 500 companies are run by women, and a total of 19 FORTUNE 1000 companies have women in the top job. (more)