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Industry: Telecommunications
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Top 25
Top 25
Wal-Mart retakes the lead as the world's biggest company. See which other companies top our list.
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Most profitable
Most profitable
Exxon Mobil leads our list of top earners this year. Which other companies are among the most profitable on the planet?
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Money losers
Money losers
Which automaker lost a whopping $12.6 billion last year? And just how far into the red are stalwarts like Coca-Cola and Tyson Foods?
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Revenues, profits
Profits as % of...
  
1 Verizon Communications 39 93,221.0 6,197.0
2 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 40 91,998.3 4,077.4
3 Deutsche Telekom 60 76,969.1 3,971.0
4 Telefónica 77 66,372.3 7,820.2
5 France Télécom 82 65,899.3 5,193.0
6 AT&T 86 63,055.0 7,356.0
7 Vodafone 95 59,811.3 -10,262.3
8 Sprint Nextel 145 43,531.0 1,329.0
9 Telecom Italia 156 40,150.1 3,781.5
10 BT 164 38,248.3 5,390.3
11 China Mobile Communications 180 35,913.7 6,259.7
12 KDDI 231 28,515.1 1,596.6
13 Comcast 260 25,700.0 2,533.0
14 Vivendi 270 25,148.2 5,060.0
15 China Telecommunications 275 24,791.3 2,279.7
16 América Móvil 330 21,486.6 3,927.8
17 KT 388 18,598.1 1,353.1
18 Telstra 423 17,256.8 2,376.4
19 BCE 450 16,483.0 1,768.9
20 Carso Global Telecom 468 16,054.4 1,149.2
21 Royal KPN 494 15,127.3 1,986.1
From the July 23, 2007 issue
How the Countries Stack Up
United States 162
Japan 67
France 38
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Biggest employers
Wal-Mart Stores 1,900,000
State Grid 1,504,000
China National Petroleum 1,086,966
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Most profitable companies
Exxon Mobil 39,500.0
Royal Dutch Shell 25,442.0
UAL 22,876.0
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Top 5 in Asia
Toyota Motor 204,746.4
Sinopec 131,636.0
China National Petroleum 110,520.2
State Grid 107,185.5
Honda Motor 94,790.5
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