FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Companies
310 Baker Hughes 7,218
374 Ball 5,751
12 Bank of America Corp. 83,980
278 Bank of New York Co. 8,312
940 Banta 1,566
866 C.R. Bard 1,771
422 Barnes & Noble 5,103
240 Baxter International 9,849
292 BB&T Corp. 7,832
202 Bear Stearns 11,552
429 Beazer Homes USA 4,995
700 Beckman Coulter 2,444
397 Becton Dickinson 5,464
419 Bed Bath & Beyond 5,148
649 Belk 2,692
584 Bell Microproducts 3,194
106 BellSouth 20,613
962 Belo 1,521
545 Bemis 3,474
749 Benchmark Electronics 2,257
428 W.R. Berkley 4,997
13 Berkshire Hathaway 81,663
76 Best Buy 27,433
465 Big Lots 4,430
706 Biogen Idec 2,423
841 Biomet 1,880
573 BJ Services 3,243
288 BJ's Wholesale Club 7,950
330 Black & Decker 6,584
467 H&R Block 4,420
366 Blockbuster 5,864
387 BlueLinx Holdings 5,622
934 Blyth 1,591
984 BMC Software 1,463
985 Bob Evans Farms 1,460
26 Boeing 54,848
490 Borders Group 4,079
475 BorgWarner 4,294
990 Boston Properties 1,447
346 Boston Scientific 6,283
544 Bowater 3,484
753 Boyd Gaming 2,223
655 Briggs & Stratton 2,655
751 Brightpoint 2,244
395 Brink's 5,488
504 Brinker International 3,913
110 Bristol-Myers Squibb 20,222
653 Broadcom 2,671
735 Brown-Forman 2,312
741 Brown Shoe 2,292
363 Brunswick 5,924
730 Builders FirstSource 2,338
629 Building Materials Holding 2,912
580 Burlington Coat Factory 3,211
171 Burlington No. Santa Fe 12,987
298 Burlington Resources 7,587
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
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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