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8. AT&T
AT&T
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Rank: 8 (Previous rank: 10)
Compare tool: AT&T vs. Top 10
CEO: Randall L. Stephenson
Address: 208 S. Akard St.
Dallas, TX 75202
Phone: 210-821-4105
Website: www.att.com
You'd think that as the exclusive wireless carrier for Apple's iPhone, AT&T would be making big money on the hyper-popular device. You'd be wrong.

AT&T is kicking back a huge share of its iPhone sales to Apple -- a subsidy that cost the carrier $450 million in the fourth quarter of 2008 alone. AT&T is betting that the payoff will come when all those iPhone customers start racking up heavy Internet usage charges year after year after year. - J.B.

  $ millions % change from 2007
Revenues 124,028.0 4.3
Profits 12,867.0 7.7
Assets 265,245.0 —
Stockholders' equity 96,347.0 —
Market value (3/27/2009) 153,226.0 —
Profits as % of  
Revenues 10.4
Assets 4.9
Stockholders' equity 13.4
Earnings per share  
2008 $ 2.16
% change from 2007 11.3
1998-2008 annual growth rate % 0.6
Total return to investors %
2008 -28.1
1998-2008 annual rate -2.8
Rank Company 500
rank		 Revenues
($ millions)
1 AT&T 8 124,028.0
2 Verizon Communications 17 97,354.0
3 Sprint Nextel 64 35,635.0
4 Comcast 68 34,256.0
5 DirecTV Group 126 19,693.0
6 Qwest Communications 197 13,475.0
7 DISH Network 231 11,617.2
8 Liberty Global 257 10,561.1
9 Virgin Media 338 7,439.9
10 Cablevision Systems 342 7,230.1
11 Charter Communications 385 6,479.0
12 Embarq 405 6,124.0
13 Telephone & Data Systems 465 5,092.0
14 Level 3 Communications 526 4,301.0
15 NII Holdings 530 4,269.4
16 Windstream 656 3,213.5
17 MetroPCS Communications 727 2,751.5
18 CenturyTel 753 2,599.7
19 Frontier Communications 834 2,237.0
20 Leap Wireless International 909 1,958.9
21 IDT 937 1,878.0
Issue date: May 4, 2009
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