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PROFITS
Rank
Company
Global 500 rank
$ millions
% change from 2007
$ millions
% change from 2007
1 ArcelorMittal 28 124,936 18.7 9,399 -9.3 2 ThyssenKrupp 74 80,210 16.6 3,295 17.9 3 Nippon Steel 157 47,479 12.3 1,544 -50.3 4 JFE Holdings 194 38,903 25.5 1,933 -15.7 5 POSCO 199 37,976 11.6 3,984 4.0 6 Baosteel Group 220 35,517 18.6 2,314 -19.0 7 Tata Steel 258 32,018 -2.4 1,076 -64.9 8 Alcoa 314 28,119 -8.6 -74 -102.9 9 China Minmetals 331 26,667 30.0 542 6.3 10 Sinosteel 372 24,164 49.7 156 -47.2 11 Hebei Iron & Steel Group 375 24,034 N/A 130 N/A 12 United States Steel 382 23,754 40.8 2,112 140.3 13 Nucor 386 23,663 42.6 1,831 24.4 14 Heraeus Holding 392 23,292 39.6 244 -14.8 15 Metalúrgica Gerdau 400 22,860 45.4 990 5.6 16 SeverStal 409 22,393 46.9 2,034 5.0 17 Kobe Steel 429 21,673 16.1 -313 -140.2 18 Jiangsu Shagang Group 444 20,897 37.6 484 -43.2 19 Evraz Group 454 20,380 59.1 1,868 -12.9 20 Aluminum Corp. of China 499 18,579 5.7 -744 -168.1
From the July 20, 2009 issue