FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
States
Virginia
1 Sprint Nextel 59 34,680.0 Reston
2 General Dynamics 100 21,290.0 Falls Church
3 Dominion Resources 123 18,041.0 Richmond
4 Capital One Financial 187 12,085.0 McLean
5 Smithfield Foods 205 11,354.2 Smithfield
6 AES 221 10,692.0 Arlington
7 Genworth Financial 223 10,504.0 Richmond
8 Circuit City Stores 226 10,472.4 Richmond
9 Norfolk Southern 270 8,527.0 Norfolk
10 Gannett 296 7,665.9 McLean
11 SLM 331 6,517.5 Reston
12 Performance Food Group 349 6,232.4 Richmond
13 Brink's 395 5,488.4 Richmond
14 NVR 410 5,275.1 Reston
15 CarMax 411 5,260.3 Richmond
16 Owens & Minor 443 4,822.4 Mechanicsville
17 Advance Auto Parts 477 4,265.0 Roanoke
18 LandAmerica Financial 500 3,959.6 Richmond
19 Dollar Tree Stores 555 3,393.9 Chesapeake
20 Universal 569 3,276.1 Richmond
21 Amerigroup 732 2,329.9 Virginia Beach
22 Massey Energy 756 2,204.3 Richmond
23 Markel 758 2,200.1 Glen Allen
24 Albemarle 776 2,107.5 Richmond
25 Sunrise Senior Living 854 1,819.5 McLean
26 NII Holdings 876 1,745.8 Reston
27 Alpha Natural Resources 920 1,631.9 Abingdon
28 CACI 921 1,623.1 Arlington
29 Anteon International 974 1,493.2 Fairfax
30 XO Communications 998 1,433.6 Reston
From the April 17th, 2006 issue
Best employers
These companies appear on both the FORTUNE 500 and our 2006 ranking of the Best Companies to Work For.
FedEx 212,241
Intel 48,655
Starbucks 91,056
Most profitable companies
Exxon Mobil 36,130.0
Citigroup 24,589.0
Bank of America Corp. 16,465.0
Best investments
Best Investments By Industry: Total Return to Shareholders (1 Year)
Petroleum Refining 60.7%
Mining, Crude-Oil Production 53.6%
Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 51.6%
Women CEOs of FORTUNE 500 companies
Andrea JungThere are more women running FORTUNE 500 companies this year than there were last year. Currently, 10 FORTUNE 500 companies are run by women (up from 9 last year), and a total of 20 FORTUNE 1000 companies have women in the top job (up from 19). (more)

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