FORTUNE 500
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Industry: Telecommunications
Revenues, Profits
Profits as % of...
EPS, Total return, Employees
  
EARNINGS PER SHARE TOTAL RETURN TO INVESTORS EMPLOYEES
1 Verizon Communications 0 6 35 242,000 12
2 AT&T 1 7 53 302,770 59
3 Sprint Nextel -11 4 -11 64,600 -19
4 Comcast N.A. 17 63 90,000 13
5 DIRECTV Group N.A. N.A. 77 10,550 15
6 Qwest Communications N.A. N.A. 48 38,383 -2
7 Echostar Communications N.A. 30 40 21,000 0
8 Alltel 7 12 19 14,899 -30
9 Liberty Global N.A. N.A. 30 20,500 -5
10 Virgin Media N.A. N.A. -63 16,352 75
11 Cablevision Systems N.A. 21 85 18,007 9
12 Charter Communications N.A. N.A. 151 15,500 -10
13 Level 3 Communications N.A. N.A. 95 5,800 -3
14 Telephone & Data Sys. 3 12 52 11,500 0
15 IDT N.A. 8 17 3,000 -50
16 CenturyTel 12 13 33 6,400 -7
17 NII Holdings N.A. N.A. 48 7,749 29
18 Citizens Communications 5 7 26 5,446 -11
From the April 30th, 2007 issue
Footnote:
Due to slight differences in rounding, industry data online may not exactly match the FORTUNE 500 magazine version.
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