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Texas	58
New York	55
California	52

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Valero Energy	16
Goldman Sachs	20
Microsoft	44

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CEO: Rex W. Tillerson
Address: 5959 Las Colinas Blvd.
Irving, TX 75039
Phone: 972-444-1000
Website: www.exxonmobil.com

Exxon Mobil is the oil behemoth everybody loves to hate - except its shareholders, of course. It's the most profitable company on the Fortune 500 for the fifth year in a row, raking in a record-breaking $40 billion in 2007 earnings.

But the company's near single-track focus on fossil fuels - plus its massive profit amid record gas prices - has drawn criticism from the public. An Exxon executive was recently grilled on Capitol Hill, with legislators demanding to know why the company hasn't invested as much in renewables as some of its peers.

	$ millions	% change from 2006
Revenues	372,824.0	7.4
Profits	40,610.0	2.8
Assets	242,082.0	—
Stockholders' equity	121,762.0	—
Market value (3/28/2008)	455,929.3	—

Profits as % of
Revenues	10.9
Assets	16.8
Stockholders' equity	33.4

Earnings per share
2007 $	7.28
% change from 2006	10.0
1997-2007 annual growth rate %	15.8

Total return to investors	%
2007	24.3
1997-2007 annual rate	14.3

Industry: Petroleum Refining

Rank	Company	500 rank	Revenues ($ millions)
1	Exxon Mobil	2	372,824.0
2	Chevron	3	210,783.0
3	ConocoPhillips	5	178,558.0


4	Valero Energy	16	96,758.0
5	Marathon Oil	36	60,044.0
6	Sunoco	56	42,101.0
7	Hess	77	31,924.0
8	Tesoro	116	21,675.0
9	Murphy Oil	134	18,439.1
10	Western Refining	342	7,305.0
11	Frontier Oil	462	5,188.7
12	Holly	484	4,791.7
13	CVR Energy	680	2,966.9
14	Calumet Specialty Products	996	1,637.8

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