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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
Profit as % of...
  
1 State Grid 29 2.1 1.4
2 Électricité de France 63 9.5 3.0
3 Enel 124 7.9 5.3
4 Tokyo Electric Power 136 5.6 2.2
5 Veolia Environnement 178 2.6 1.8
6 Gaz de France 189 8.3 5.1
7 Centrica 218 -0.9 -1.3
8 Korea Electric Power 228 8.1 2.8
9 China Southern Power Grid 237 3.8 2.8
10 Endesa 258 14.4 5.2
11 Scottish & Southern Energy 314 7.0 8.8
12 Kansai Electric Power 321 5.7 2.2
13 Vattenfall 355 12.8 5.4
14 CFE 364 1.0 0.3
15 Chubu Electric Power 380 4.1 1.6
16 National Grid 421 15.2 4.7
17 Energie Baden-Württemberg 440 7.6 3.4
18 Dominion Resources 448 8.4 2.8
19 Duke Energy 473 11.7 2.7
20 FPL Group 480 8.2 3.6
21 Exelon 484 10.2 3.6
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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