FORTUNE 500

Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations

Top companies: Most profitable

Rank	Company	500 Rank	2009 $ (millions)
1	Exxon Mobil	2	19,280.0
2	Microsoft	36	14,569.0
3	Wal-Mart Stores	1	14,335.0
4	Procter & Gamble	22	13,436.0
5	International Business Machines	20	13,425.0
6	Goldman Sachs Group	39	13,385.0
7	Merck	85	12,901.3
8	AT&T	7	12,535.0
9	Wells Fargo	19	12,275.0
10	Johnson & Johnson	33	12,266.0
11	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.	9	11,728.0
12	General Electric	4	11,025.0
13	Bristol-Myers Squibb	114	10,612.0
14	Chevron	3	10,483.0
15	Pfizer	40	8,635.0
16	Berkshire Hathaway	11	8,055.0
17	Hewlett-Packard	10	7,660.0
18	Coca-Cola	72	6,824.0
19	Google	102	6,520.4
20	Liberty Media	227	6,462.0
21	Philip Morris International	94	6,342.0
22	Bank of America Corp.	5	6,276.0
23	Cisco Systems	58	6,134.0
24	PepsiCo	50	5,946.0
25	Abbott Laboratories	75	5,745.8
26	Apple	56	5,704.0
27	Oracle	105	5,593.0
28	ConocoPhillips	6	4,858.0
29	WellPoint	31	4,745.9
30	Amgen	159	4,605.0
31	McDonald's	108	4,551.0
32	Constellation Energy	149	4,443.4
33	Intel	62	4,369.0
34	Eli Lilly	112	4,328.8
35	United Technologies	37	3,829.0
36	UnitedHealth Group	21	3,822.0
37	CVS Caremark	18	3,696.0
38	Verizon Communications	13	3,651.0
39	Comcast	59	3,638.0
40	Travelers Cos.	98	3,622.0
41	Walt Disney	57	3,307.0
42	Altria Group	137	3,206.0
43	3M	106	3,193.0
44	Prudential Financial	65	3,124.0
45	Lockheed Martin	44	3,024.0
46	Kraft Foods	53	3,021.0
47	United Services Automobile Association	132	3,020.1
48	Occidental Petroleum	150	2,915.0
49	Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	154	2,749.0
50	Ford Motor	8	2,717.0

Issue date: May 3, 2010.

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