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FORTUNE 500

Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations

Top companies: Most profitable

Rank	Company	500 Rank	2007 $ (millions)
1	Exxon Mobil	2	40,610.0
2	General Electric	6	22,208.0
3	Chevron	3	18,688.0
4	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.	12	15,365.0
5	Bank of America Corp.	9	14,982.0
6	Microsoft	44	14,065.0
7	Berkshire Hathaway	11	13,213.0
8	Wal-Mart Stores	1	12,731.0
9	AT&T	10	11,951.0
10	ConocoPhillips	5	11,891.0
11	Goldman Sachs Group	20	11,599.0
12	Johnson & Johnson	35	10,576.0
13	International Business Machines	15	10,418.0
14	Procter & Gamble	23	10,340.0
15	Altria Group	61	9,786.0
16	Pfizer	47	8,144.0
17	Wells Fargo	41	8,057.0
18	Cisco Systems	71	7,333.0
19	Hewlett-Packard	14	7,264.0
20	Intel	60	6,976.0
21	Wachovia Corp.	38	6,312.0
22	American International Group	13	6,200.0
23	Coca-Cola	83	5,981.0
24	PepsiCo	59	5,658.0
25	Verizon Communications	17	5,521.0
26	State Farm Insurance Cos.	32	5,463.7
27	Occidental Petroleum	123	5,400.0
28	Valero Energy	16	5,234.0
29	Walt Disney	67	4,687.0
30	UnitedHealth Group	25	4,654.0
31	Allstate	64	4,636.0
32	Wyeth	113	4,616.0
33	Travelers Cos.	93	4,601.0
34	Home Depot	22	4,395.0
35	Time Warner	49	4,387.0
36	U.S. Bancorp	122	4,324.0
37	MetLife	43	4,317.0
38	Oracle	137	4,274.0
39	United Technologies	39	4,224.0
40	Google	150	4,203.7
41	Lehman Brothers Holdings	37	4,192.0
42	3M	100	4,096.0
43	Boeing	27	4,074.0
44	American Express	75	4,012.0
45	Marathon Oil	36	3,956.0
46	Anadarko Petroleum	159	3,781.0
47	Prudential Financial	74	3,704.0
48	Citigroup	8	3,617.0
49	Abbott Laboratories	96	3,606.3
50	Devon Energy	221	3,606.0

From the May 5, 2008 issue

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