FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Full list
1 Exxon Mobil (XOM) 339,938.0 36,130.0
2 Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) 315,654.0 11,231.0
3 General Motors (GM) 192,604.0 -10,600.0
4 Chevron (CVX) 189,481.0 14,099.0
5 Ford Motor (F) 177,210.0 2,024.0
6 ConocoPhillips (COP) 166,683.0 13,529.0
7 General Electric (GE) 157,153.0 16,353.0
8 Citigroup (C) 131,045.0 24,589.0
9 American Intl. Group (AIG) 108,905.0 10,477.0
10 Intl. Business Machines (IBM) 91,134.0 7,934.0
11 Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) 86,696.0 2,398.0
12 Bank of America Corp. (BAC) 83,980.0 16,465.0
13 Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) 81,663.0 8,528.0
14 Home Depot (HD) 81,511.0 5,838.0
15 Valero Energy (VLO) 81,362.0 3,590.0
16 McKesson (MCK) 80,514.6 -156.7
17 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) 79,902.0 8,483.0
18 Verizon Communications (VZ) 75,111.9 7,397.0
19 Cardinal Health (CAH) 74,915.1 1,050.7
20 Altria Group (MO) 69,148.0 10,435.0
21 Kroger (KR) 60,552.9 958.0
22 State Farm Insurance Cos 59,223.9 3,241.8
23 Marathon Oil (MRO) 58,958.0 3,032.0
24 Procter & Gamble (PG) 56,741.0 7,257.0
25 Dell (DELL) 55,908.0 3,572.0
26 Boeing (BA) 54,848.0 2,572.0
27 AmerisourceBergen (ABC) 54,589.6 264.6
28 Costco Wholesale (COST) 52,935.2 1,063.1
29 Target (TGT) 52,620.0 2,408.0
30 Morgan Stanley (MS) 52,498.0 4,939.0
31 Pfizer (PFE) 51,353.0 8,085.0
32 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) 50,514.0 10,411.0
33 Sears Holdings (SHLD) 49,124.0 858.0
34 Merrill Lynch (MER) 47,783.0 5,116.0
35 MetLife (MET) 46,983.0 4,714.0
36 Dow Chemical (DOW) 46,307.0 4,515.0
37 UnitedHealth Group (UNH) 45,365.0 3,300.0
38 Wellpoint (WLP) 45,136.0 2,463.8
39 AT&T (T) 43,862.0 4,786.0
40 Time Warner (TWX) 43,652.0 2,905.0
41 Goldman Sachs Group (GS) 43,391.0 5,626.0
42 Lowe's (LOW) 43,243.0 2,771.0
43 United Technologies (UTX) 42,725.0 3,069.0
44 United Parcel Service (UPS) 42,581.0 3,870.0
45 Walgreen (WAG) 42,201.6 1,559.5
46 Wells Fargo (WFC) 40,407.0 7,671.0
47 Albertson's (ABS) 40,397.0 446.0
48 Microsoft (MSFT) 39,788.0 12,254.0
49 Intel (INTC) 38,826.0 8,664.0
50 Safeway (SWY) 38,416.0 561.1
51 Medco Health Solutions (MHS) 37,870.9 602.0
52 Lockheed Martin (LMT) 37,213.0 1,825.0
53 CVS (CVS) 37,006.2 1,224.7
54 Motorola (MOT) 36,843.0 4,578.0
55 Caterpillar (CAT) 36,339.0 2,854.0
56 Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) 35,943.8 1,044.4
57 Wachovia Corp. (WB) 35,908.0 6,643.0
58 Allstate (ALL) 35,383.0 1,765.0
59 Sprint Nextel (S) 34,680.0 1,785.0
60 Caremark Rx (CMX) 32,991.3 932.4
61 PepsiCo (PEP) 32,562.0 4,078.0
62 Lehman Brothers (LEH) 32,420.0 3,260.0
63 Walt Disney (DIS) 31,944.0 2,533.0
64 Prudential Financial (PRU) 31,708.0 3,540.0
65 Plains All Amer. Pipeline (PAA) 31,177.3 217.8
66 Sunoco (SUN) 31,176.0 974.0
67 Northrop Grumman (NOC) 30,721.0 1,400.0
68 Sysco (SYY) 30,281.9 961.5
69 American Express (AXP) 30,080.0 3,734.0
70 FedEx (FDX) 29,363.0 1,449.0
71 Honeywell Intl. (HON) 28,862.0 1,655.0
72 Ingram Micro (IM) 28,808.3 216.9
73 DuPont (DD) 28,491.0 2,053.0
74 New York Life Insurance 28,051.0 1,421.6
75 Johnson Controls (JCI) 28,019.5 909.4
76 Best Buy (BBY) 27,433.0 984.0
77 Delphi (DPHIQ) 27,201.0 -6,369.0
78 Hartford Financial Services (HIG) 27,083.0 2,274.0
79 Alcoa (AA) 26,601.0 1,233.0
80 Tyson Foods (TSN) 26,014.0 353.0
81 TIAA-CREF 25,916.8 2,000.8
82 International Paper (IP) 25,797.0 1,100.0
83 Cisco Systems (CSCO) 24,801.0 5,741.0
84 HCA (HCA) 24,455.0 1,424.0
85 St. Paul Travelers Cos. (STA) 24,365.0 1,622.0
86 News Corp. (NWS) 23,859.0 2,128.0
87 Federated Dept. Stores (FD) 23,347.0 1,406.0
88 Amerada Hess (AHC) 23,255.0 1,242.0
89 Coca-Cola (KO) 23,104.0 4,872.0
90 Weyerhaeuser (WY) 23,000.0 733.0
91 Aetna (AET) 22,885.0 1,634.5
92 Mass. Mutual Life Ins. 22,798.8 1,446.0
93 Abbott Laboratories (ABT) 22,337.8 3,372.1
94 Comcast (CMCSK) 22,255.0 928.0
95 Merck (MRK) 22,011.9 4,631.3
96 Deere (DE) 21,930.5 1,446.8
97 Raytheon (RTN) 21,894.0 871.0
98 Nationwide 21,832.0 1,149.0
99 Washington Mutual (WM) 21,326.0 3,432.0
100 General Dynamics (GD) 21,290.0 1,461.0
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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