FORTUNE 500 2006
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 2 3 -22 217,000 2
2 AT&T N.A. 2 0 189,950 17
3 Sprint Nextel 5 7 -5 79,900 33
4 Comcast N.A. 11 -22 80,000 8
5 BellSouth N.A. 5 2 63,066 1
6 Qwest Communications N.A. N.A. 27 39,348 -5
7 DIRECTV Group N.A. N.A. -16 9,200 -22
8 Alltel 8 11 10 21,373 15
9 Echostar Communications N.A. 25 -18 21,000 5
10 Cox Communications N.A. N.A. N.A. 22,530 1
11 Liberty Global N.A. N.A. -5 21,600 N.A.
12 Charter Communications N.A. N.A. -46 17,200 11
13 Cablevision Systems N.A. 7 -6 16,597 5
14 Level 3 Communications N.A. N.A. -15 6,000 31
15 NTL N.A. N.A. -7 9,358 -21
16 CenturyTel 11 10 -6 6,900 1
17 IDT N.A. N.A. -21 5,951 19
18 Citizens Communications -1 4 -4 6,103 -4
19 Nextel Partners N.A. N.A. 43 2,905 0
20 NII Holdings N.A. N.A. 84 6,039 23
21 XO Communications N.A. N.A. -40 4,132 -17
From the April 17th, 2006 issue
Footnote:
Due to slight differences in rounding, industry data online may not exactly match the FORTUNE 500 magazine version.
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