FORTUNE 500: 1972 Profits 1-100

Rank	Company	500 rank	Profits ($ millions)
1	General Motors	1	1,935.7
2	Exxon Mobil	2	1,461.6
3	Intl. Business Machines	5	1,078.8
4	Texaco	8	903.9
5	Ford Motor	3	656.7
6	Gulf Oil	11	561.4
7	Mobil	6	540.8
8	ChevronTexaco	12	511.1
9	General Electric	4	471.8
10	Eastman Kodak	28	419.3
11	DuPont	17	356.5
12	Amoco	15	341.7
13	ITT Industries	9	336.8
14	AT&T Technologies	10	258.4
15	Shell Oil	16	244.5
16	Procter & Gamble	21	237.6
17	Nabisco Group Holdings	59	225.9
18	Xerox	52	212.6
19	3M	57	210.7
20	Atlantic Richfield	22	198.7
21	Tenneco Automotive	32	184.0
22	CBS	14	175.3
23	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	19	170.2
24	Coca-Cola	64	167.8
25	Wyeth	83	160.0
26	Union Carbide	25	157.8
27	Dow Chemical	46	154.7
28	U.S. Steel	13	154.5
29	Sunoco	54	151.6
30	Bethlehem Steel	29	139.2
31	Amerada Hess	89	133.2
32	ConocoPhillips	37	132.3
33	Getty Oil	91	130.9
34	Caterpillar	40	128.3
35	Merck	151	127.2
36	Firestone Tire & Rubber	34	120.3
37	Fortune Brands	69	119.4
38	General Foods	38	118.7
39	Unocal	50	114.7
40	Weyerhaeuser	97	113.9
41	Conoco	23	109.4
42	Avon Products	144	109.1
43	Warner-Lambert	90	108.1
44	Citgo Petroleum	60	104.5
45	Johnson & Johnson	113	101.8
46	Altria Group	107	101.5
47	Eli Lilly	172	96.1
48	American Cyanamid	98	94.1
49	Monsanto	42	93.7
50	Kraft	30	91.3
51	Pfizer	133	90.6
52	Kennecott	122	87.2
53	Georgia-Pacific	81	86.3
54	Chrysler	7	83.7
55	McDonnell Douglas	45	80.9
56	Phelps Dodge	177	75.8
57	Bristol-Myers Squibb	118	75.8
58	Unisys	136	74.2
59	Continental Group	43	72.9
60	U.S. Industries	85	72.7
61	Sperry	63	72.3
62	Textron	72	71.8
63	Anheuser-Busch	141	71.6
64	Singer	41	70.8
65	Greyhound	33	70.5
66	Honeywell	53	69.3
67	Rockwell Automation	39	68.6
68	Marathon Oil	109	68.2
69	TRW	75	67.3
70	Campbell Soup	126	67.2
71	Loews	222	64.9
72	Ingersoll-Rand	156	64.7
73	Squibb	150	63.5
74	Deere	108	63.3
75	Sterling Drug	195	63.1
76	PepsiCo	106	62.7
77	Gillette	171	62.4
78	Beatrice	58	62.1
79	Polaroid	229	61.0
80	Borden Chemical	44	60.5
81	Owens-Illinois	77	59.6
82	Sara Lee	67	59.4
83	Schering-Plough	265	59.2
84	CBS	102	59.1
85	City Investing	223	57.3
86	Eaton	125	57.0
87	Martin Marietta	132	56.5
88	Teledyne	115	56.2
89	Emerson Electric	194	56.1
90	Gulf & Western Industries	74	55.6
91	Alcoa	82	55.3
92	Honeywell Intl.	92	55.3
93	Hercules	152	55.1
94	Kellogg	188	55.1
95	BP America	86	54.7
96	International Paper	51	54.6
97	Newmont Mining	465	54.5
98	AMAX	162	51.6
99	Bestfoods	78	51.6
100	Ralston Purina	62	50.9

Since 1955, when the first FORTUNE 500 was created, more than 1,800 companies have appeared on the list. Many of these companies have changed names over this period, owing to mergers, acquisitions, and bankruptcies. Other companies have gone private, or simply changed their names.

Companies are listed by the name with which they were associated in 2005, or at the time of their most recent list appearance before that. FORTUNE 500 companies that have been acquired by other FORTUNE 500 companies are listed under the name of the acquiring company. Rankings have been revised to reflect corrections in data.

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