FORTUNE 500
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Industry: Wholesalers: Diversified
Revenues, Profits
Profits as % of...
EPS, Total return, Employees
  
EARNINGS PER SHARE TOTAL RETURN TO INVESTORS EMPLOYEES
1 World Fuel Services 17 21 32 743 15
2 Genuine Parts 4 8 11 32,000 1
3 Ryerson 13 4 4 5,700 -2
4 W.W. Grainger 8 7 0 15,891 2
5 Reliance Steel & Alum. 23 19 30 8,600 54
6 Wesco International N.A. N.A. 38 7,100 18
7 Graybar Electric 3 N.A. N.A. 8,400 8
8 Anixter International 21 15 39 7,500 10
9 BlueLinx Holdings N.A. N.A. -4 3,300 -8
10 VWR International N.A. N.A. N.A. 6,300 3
11 Airgas 10 7 24 10,300 -6
12 Builders FirstSource N.A. N.A. -17 5,900 -11
13 Pool 34 36 6 3,600 13
14 Applied Ind. Technologies 11 15 19 4,683 6
15 Metals USA N.A. N.A. N.A. 2,900 N.A.
16 Watsco 22 15 -20 3,300 3
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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