FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Dow Chemical
Rank: 36 (Previous rank: 34)
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CEO: Andrew N. Liveris
Address: 2030 Dow Center, Midland, MI 48674
Phone: 989-636-1000
Website: http://www.dow.com
Revenues 46,307.0 15.3
Profits 4,515.0 61.4
Assets 45,934.0
Stockholders' Equity 15,324.0
Market Value 3/17/2006 42,257.0
Revenues 9.8
Assets 9.8
Stockholders' equity 29.5
2005 $ 4.62
% change from 2004 57.7
1995-2005 annual growth rate % 6.0
2005 -9.0
1995-2005 annual rate 10.4
Industry: Chemicals
1 Dow Chemical 36 46,307.0
2 DuPont 73 28,491.0
3 Lyondell Chemical 121 18,606.0
4 Huntsman 172 12,986.0
5 PPG Industries 232 10,201.0
6 Ashland 239 9,860.0
7 Air Products & Chem. 282 8,143.5
8 Rohm & Haas 286 7,994.0
9 Praxair 297 7,656.0
10 Sherwin-Williams 311 7,190.7
11 Eastman Chemical 315 7,059.0
12 Monsanto 336 6,439.0
13 Celanese 356 6,070.0
14 Avery Dennison 393 5,496.3
15 Engelhard 454 4,618.1
16 Ecolab 459 4,534.8
17 Hexion Specialty Chemicals 462 4,470.0
18 Mosaic 470 4,396.7
19 Lubrizol 486 4,098.9
20 Nalco Holding 566 3,312.4
21 Chemtura 597 3,123.0
22 Rockwood Holdings 598 3,121.2
23 Cytec Industries 617 2,999.7
24 Solutia 637 2,825.0
25 Valspar 648 2,714.0
26 PolyOne 674 2,570.2
27 W.R. Grace 675 2,569.5
28 RPM International 678 2,555.7
29 UAP Holding 693 2,506.7
30 Scotts Miracle-Gro 719 2,369.3
31 Georgia Gulf 745 2,273.7
32 FMC 771 2,150.2
33 Cabot 772 2,125.0
34 Albemarle 776 2,107.5
35 Hercules 787 2,068.8
36 Intl. Flavors & Frag. 812 1,993.4
37 Terra Industries 824 1,939.1
38 CF Industries 833 1,908.4
39 Sigma-Aldrich 909 1,666.5
40 H.B. Fuller 965 1,512.2
41 Schulman (A.) 995 1,435.6
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