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FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
50/50
Toll Brothers and Apple Computer are two of the companies that rocketed up the list this year, while El Paso watched its ranking fall.
 
Lyondell Chemical 121 338 + 217
ONEOK 176 336 + 160
MGM Mirage 334 449 + 115
Enbridge Energy Partners 335 448 + 113
Golden West Financial 326 435 + 109
Toll Brothers 370 477 + 107
Apple Computer 159 263 + 104
Harrah's Entertainment 309 396 + 87
World Fuel Services 264 351 + 87
Sears Holdings 33 113 + 80
Enterprise Products 183 260 + 77
Commercial Metals 329 404 + 75
WPS Resources 318 393 + 75
Molson Coors Brewing 373 447 + 74
Fluor 169 241 + 72
Apache 299 367 + 68
Regions Financial 354 420 + 66
C.H. Robinson Worldwide 379 442 + 63
Murphy Oil 193 255 + 62
Terex 355 417 + 62
Kerr-McGee 320 379 + 59
Wellpoint 38 97 + 59
Ameren 324 380 + 56
Bear Stearns 202 258 + 56
SunTrust Banks 217 273 + 56
Burlington Resources 298 353 + 55
Hovnanian Enterprises 403 457 + 54
Lennar 161 214 + 53
Occidental Petroleum 133 186 + 53
Omnicare 406 459 + 53
L-3 Communications 253 305 + 52
Smith International 390 438 + 48
UGI 436 484 + 48
SLM 331 378 + 47
Federated Dept. Stores 87 133 + 46
KB Home 254 300 + 46
Tesoro 132 177 + 45
Beazer Homes USA 429 473 + 44
Peabody Energy 453 497 + 44
YRC Worldwide 263 307 + 44
Coventry Health Care 328 371 + 43
Constellation Energy 125 167 + 42
D.R. Horton 162 203 + 41
Reynolds American 280 321 + 41
OGE Energy 358 397 + 39
Phelps Dodge 260 299 + 39
Amerada Hess 88 126 + 38
Sempra Energy 197 235 + 38
DTE Energy 259 296 + 37
Hughes Supply 400 437 + 37
From the April 17th, 2006 issue
How the states stack up
Texas 56
New York 55
California 52
Best employers
These companies appear on both the FORTUNE 500 and our 2006 ranking of the Best Companies to Work For.
FedEx 212,241
Intel 48,655
Starbucks 91,056
Most profitable companies
Exxon Mobil 36,130.0
Citigroup 24,589.0
Bank of America Corp. 16,465.0
Best investments
Best Investments By Industry: Total Return to Shareholders (1 Year)
Petroleum Refining 60.7%
Mining, Crude-Oil Production 53.6%
Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 51.6%
Women CEOs of FORTUNE 500 companies
Andrea JungThere are more women running FORTUNE 500 companies this year than there were last year. Currently, 10 FORTUNE 500 companies are run by women (up from 9 last year), and a total of 20 FORTUNE 1000 companies have women in the top job (up from 19). (more)
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