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324. Chesapeake Energy
Chesapeake Energy
Financials: Latest Results
Rank: 324 (Previous rank: 325)
Compare tool: Chesapeake Energy vs. Top 10
CEO: Aubrey K. McClendon
Address: 6100 N. Western Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
Phone: 405-848-8000
Website: www.chk.com
Revenues 7,800.0 6.5
Profits 1,451.2 -27.6
Assets 30,734.6
Stockholders' equity 12,130.1
Market value (3/28/2008) 23,387.5
Revenues 18.6
Assets 4.7
Stockholders' equity 12.0
2007 $ 2.62
% change from 2006 -39.8
1997-2007 annual growth rate % N.A.
2007 36.0
1997-2007 annual rate 18.7
1 Occidental Petroleum 123 20,206.0
2 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 140 17,876.0
3 Anadarko Petroleum 159 15,916.0
4 Devon Energy 221 12,143.0
5 Apache 262 9,977.9
6 Chesapeake Energy 324 7,800.0
7 Newmont Mining 430 5,645.0
8 Peabody Energy 432 5,599.2
9 XTO Energy 436 5,513.0
10 MDU Resources Group 521 4,375.5
11 EOG Resources 538 4,190.8
12 Consol Energy 577 3,762.2
13 Noble Energy 627 3,272.0
14 Arch Coal 790 2,413.6
15 Massey Energy 791 2,413.5
16 Cleveland-Cliffs 822 2,275.2
17 Pioneer Natural Resources 875 2,071.3
18 Alpha Natural Resources 923 1,877.6
19 Newfield Exploration 942 1,791.0
From the May 5, 2008 issue
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