Top companies: Most profitable

Rank	Company	Global 500 Rank	2008 Profits as % of Revenues
1	CVRD	205	35.3
2	Merck	378	32.7
3	Microsoft	117	29.3
4	Occidental Petroleum	365	28.0
5	Philip Morris International	345	26.8
6	Surgutneftegas	420	26.3
7	BHP Billiton	120	25.9
8	Bristol-Myers Squibb	435	24.6
9	Oracle	408	24.6
10	BG Group	390	24.5
11	Rosneft Oil	158	23.7
12	China Construction Bank	125	23.0
13	Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	92	22.6
14	Bank of Communications	494	21.9
15	Gazprom	22	21.1
16	Cisco Systems	191	20.4
17	British American Tobacco	416	20.3
18	Johnson & Johnson	103	20.3
19	Schlumberger	328	20.0
20	Petronas	80	19.9
21	Anglo American	336	19.8
22	EnCana	284	19.8
23	Novartis	183	19.8
24	Google	423	19.4
25	Wyeth	401	19.3
26	AstraZeneca	268	19.3
27	Oil & Natural Gas	402	18.9
28	GlaxoSmithKline	168	18.9
29	Roche Group	171	18.7
30	TNK-BP Holding	234	18.4
31	McDonald's	388	18.3
32	Coca-Cola	259	18.2
33	Bank of China	145	18.0
34	China Mobile Communications	99	17.6
35	Am�rica M�vil	273	17.2
36	China National Offshore Oil	318	17.2
37	Pfizer	152	16.8
38	Abbott Laboratories	294	16.5
39	Nestl�	48	16.4
40	News Corp.	250	16.3
41	Petrobras	34	16.0
42	Agricultural Bank of China	155	15.4
43	U.S. Bancorp	483	15.3
44	Husky Energy	396	15.2
45	Delphi	453	14.9
46	Toronto-Dominion Bank	354	14.9
47	Apple	253	14.9
48	Telstra	410	14.8
49	Sabic	186	14.6
50	Standard Chartered Group	389	14.5

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U.S.	140
Japan	68
France	40

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Company	2008 Number of Employees
Wal-Mart Stores	2,100,000
China National Petroleum	1,618,393
State Grid	1,537,000

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Exxon Mobil	$45,220
Gazprom	$29,864
Royal Dutch Shell	$26,277

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