| Key financials |
$ millions |
% change
from 2008 |
| Revenues |
8,956.0 |
-17.0 |
| Profits |
1,254.0 |
3.6 |
| Assets |
14,317.0 |
— |
| Stockholders' equity |
5,315.0 |
— |
| Market value (3/26/2010) |
24,989.7 |
— |
| Profits as % of |
|
| Revenues |
14.0 |
| Assets |
8.8 |
| Stockholders' equity |
23.6 |
| Earnings per share |
|
| 2009 $ |
4.01 |
| % change from 2008 |
5.5 |
| 1999-2009 annual growth rate % |
11.7 |
| Total return to investors |
% |
| 2009 |
38.3 |
| 1999-2009 annual rate |
14.2 |
| 4 | Monsanto | 197 | 11,740.0 | | 5 | Mosaic | 231 | 10,298.0 | | 6 | Praxair | 262 | 8,956.0 | | 7 | Air Products & Chemicals | 273 | 8,381.4 | | 8 | Ashland | 280 | 8,106.0 | | 9 | Huntsman | 293 | 7,763.0 | | 10 | Sherwin-Williams | 319 | 7,094.2 | | 11 | Avery Dennison | 362 | 5,952.7 | | 12 | Ecolab | 365 | 5,900.6 | | 13 | Celanese | 414 | 5,082.0 | | 14 | Eastman Chemical | 415 | 5,047.0 | | 15 | Lubrizol | 453 | 4,586.3 |
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