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Americaâ€™s Corporations Made A Record $824 Billion Last Year, As Conservatives Claim Obama Is Anti-Business
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The Fortune 500 generated a total of $824.5 billion in earnings last year, up 16.4% over 2010. That beats the previous record of $785 billion, set in 2006 during a roaring economy. The 2011 profits are outsized based on two key historical metrics. They represent 7% of total sales, vs. an average of 5.14% over the 58-year history of the Fortune 500. Companies are also garnering exceptional returns on their capital. The 500 achieved a return-on-equity of 14.3%, far above the historical norm of 12%. ... Read more

List of companies by revenue

Rank	Company name	Primary industry	Revenue (USD billion)	Market cap USD million)	Employees
1	ExxonMobil	Oil and gas	$486.429	$417,166	82,100
2	Royal Dutch Shell	Oil and gas	$470.171	$228,128	90,000
3	Walmart	Retail	$446.950	$192,098	2,150,000
4	BP	Oil and gas	$386.460	$137,042	97,600
5	Vitol	Raw materials	$297.000	-	-
6	Sinopec	Oil and gas	$273.420	$101,583	400,513
7	Chevron	Oil and gas	$253.706	$215,780	61,189
8	ConocoPhillips	Oil and gas	$251.226	$100,054	29,800
9	Toyota Motors	Automotive	$235.890	$136,891	316,121
10	State Grid Corporation of China	Electricity	$226.294	-	1,564,001
11	PetroChina	Oil and gas	$221.570	$326,199	464,000
12	Total S.A.	Oil and gas	$220.415	$124,916	111,401
13	Volkswagen Group	Automotive	$210.776	$69,620	501,956
14	Japan Post Holdings	Conglomerate	$203.958	-	229,134
15	Glencore	Raw materials	$186.200	-	52,000
16	Saudi Aramco	Oil and gas	$182.396	-	54,441
17	Gazprom	Oil and Gas	$158.100	$150,058	432,000
18	Fannie Mae	Financial services	$153.800	-	7,300
19	General Motors	Automotive	$150.280	$57,933	284,000
20	General Electric	Conglomerate	$147.300	$194,875	287,000
21	Carrefour	Retailing	$146.580	$29,173	475,976
22	Petrobras	Oil and gas	$145.900	$247,417	80,492
23	Berkshire Hathaway	Conglomerate	$143.688	$198,307	217,000
24	Samsung Electronics	Conglomerate	$142.400	$136,229	275,000
25	Allianz	Financial services	$142.240	$54,223	151,388
26	Daimler AG	Automotive	$139.168	$72,220	267,274
27	Ford Motor Company	Automotive	$136.260	$72,220	327,531
28	Eni	Oil and gas	$129.957	$87,800	78,417
29	Hewlett-Packard	Information technology	$127.240	$92,217	266,590
30	AT&T	Telecommunications	$126.723	$173,636	321,000
31	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone	Telecommunications	$124.330	$65,641	205,288
32	Assicurazioni Generali	Insurance	$121.299	$29,679	85,368
33	Cargill	Agriculture	$119.500	-	158,000
34	E.ON	Electricity; gas	$118.524	$61,567	85,105
35	JX Holdings	Energy	$116.414	$17,900	-
36	GDF Suez	Public utilities	$112.88	$81,043	160,700
37	AXA	Financial services	$112.418	$38,750	189,927
38	Hitachi, Ltd.	Conglomerate	$112.239	$24,121	361,745
39	McKesson Corporation	Health care	$112.084	$19,800	31,800
40	Bank of America	Banking	$111.39	$134,536	203,425
41	Tesco	Retailing	$110.85	$53,430	492,714
42	Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation	Financial services	$109.956	-	5,000
43	Apple Inc.	Electronics	$108.249	$588,540	63,300
44	Honda	Automotive	$107.985	$71,805	181,876
45	Verizon	Telecommunications	$106.565	$101,142	203,100
46	Nissan Motors	Automotive	$105.523	$43,086	127,625
47	Panasonic Corporation	Electronics	$105.035	$34,873	290,493
48	NestlÃ©	Food processing	$104.972	$203,534	253,000
49	LUKoil	Oil and Gas	$104.956	$48,537	150,000
50	Pemex	Oil and gas	$103.538	-	138,215
51	Hon Hai Precision Industry	Electronics	$102.855	$38,935	920,000
52	JPMorgan Chase	Financial Services	$102.694	$165,827	176,000
53	Cardinal Health	Health care	$102.644	$14,200	40,000
54	Koch Industries	Conglomerate	$100.0	-	80,000
55	PetrÃ³leos de Venezuela	Oil and gas	$94.929	-	67,900
56	IBM	Information technology	$106.9	$182,329	426,752
57	Siemens AG	Conglomerate	$98.870	$113,690	405,000
58	Hyundai Motors	Automotive	$98.858	$33,675	117,000
59	Enel	Electricity generation	$97.782	$47,180	58,548
60	CVS Caremark	Retailing	$96.413	$47,246	160,000
61	Lloyds Banking Group	Financial Services	$95.342	$70,023	72,000
62	UnitedHealth Group	Health care	$94.155	$39,719	87,000
63	Rosneft	Oil and gas	$91.975	$75,979	106,000
64	Statoil	Oil and gas	$90.733	$76,034	30,344
65	Metro AG	Retailing	$89.87	$23,427	263,794
66	Aviva	Financial services	$89.890	$20,500	59,000
67	BMW	Automotive	$89.047	$50,288	104,342
68	ElectricitÃ© de France	Electricity generation	$87.073	$76,133	156,152
69	Costco	Retailing	$87.048	$31,521	132,000
70	Citigroup	Financial services	$86.601	$137,407	299,000
71	National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives	Insurance	$86.547	-	6,248
72	Sony	Electronics	$86.521	$36,255	167,900
73	BASF	Chemical Industry	$85.347	$73,560	109,140
74	Wells Fargo	Banking / Financial services	$85.21	$162,659	160,000
75	SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale	Financial Services	$84.868	$40,274	120,000
76	Kuwait Petroleum Corporation	Oil and gas	$84.594	-	18,500
77	Deutsche Telekom	Telecommunications	$83.407	$55,972	246,777
78	Procter & Gamble	Consumer goods	$82.559	$180,072	129,000
79	Industrial and Commercial Bank of China	Banking	$82.536	$251,078	301,537
80	Valero Energy	Oil and gas	$82.233	$15,900	22,000
81	Kroger	Retailing	$82.189	$15,200	334,000
82	Nippon Life Insurance	Insurance	$81.315	-	67,348
83	TelefÃ³nica	Telecommunications	$80.938	$103,872	173,554
84	Repsol YPF	Oil and Gas	$80.747	$34,149	41,017
85	Archer Daniels Midland	Agriculture, Food processing	$80.676	$19,218	30,000
86	AmerisourceBergen	Health care	$80.218	$10,100	12,300
87	HSBC	Financial services	$80.014	$180,289	302,000
88	SK Group	Conglomerate	$79.603	$4,300	-
89	National Iranian Oil Company	Oil and gas	$79.277	-	36,000
90	Trafigura	Raw materials	$79.2	-	4,000
91	ArcelorMittal	Steel	$78.025	$59,428	273,811
92	American International Group	Financial services	$77.301	$67,100	86,000
93	Toshiba	Conglomerate	$77.090	$23,094	199,000
94	Petronas	Oil and gas	$76.822	-	33,944
95	Indian Oil Corporation	Oil and Gas	$75.632	$18,624	36,127
96	Fiat	Conglomerate	$75.172	$25,346	162,237
97	ZEN-NOH	Agricultural marketing	$75.111	-	8,530
98	PSA Peugeot CitroÃ«n	Automotive	$74.909	$8,700	186,220
99	Vodafone	Telecommunications	$73.635	$135,255	83,862
100	Marathon Oil	Oil and gas	$73.621	$26,288	28,855

Rank	Company	Country	Sales	Profits	Assets	Market Value
1	JPMorgan Chase	United States	$115.5 B	$17.4 B	$2,117.6 B	$182.2 B
2	HSBC Holdings	United Kingdom	$103.3 B	$13.3 B	$2,467.9 B	$186.5 B
3	General Electric	United States	$150.2 B	$11.6 B	$751.2 B	$216.2 B
4	ExxonMobil	United States	$341.6 B	$30.5 B	$302.5 B	$407.2 B
5	Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands	$369.1 B	$20.1 B	$317.2 B	$212.9 B
6	PetroChina	China	$222.3 B	$21.2 B	$251.3 B	$320.8 B
7	ICBC	China	$69.2 B	$18.8 B	$1,723.5 B	$239.5 B
8	Berkshire Hathaway	United States	$136.2 B	$13 B	$372.2 B	$211 B
8	Petrobras-PetrÃ³leo Brasil	Brazil	$121.3 B	$21.2 B	$313.2 B	$238.8 B
10	Citigroup	United States	$111.5 B	$10.6 B	$1,913.9 B	$132.8 B
11	BNP Paribas	France	$130.4 B	$10.5 B	$2,680.7 B	$88 B
11	Wells Fargo	United States	$93.2 B	$12.4 B	$1,258.1 B	$170.6 B
13	Banco Santander	Spain	$109.7 B	$12.8 B	$1,570.6 B	$94.7 B
14	AT&T	United States	$124.3 B	$19.9 B	$268.5 B	$168.2 B
15	Gazprom	Russia	$98.7 B	$25.7 B	$275.9 B	$172.9 B
16	Chevron	United States	$189.6 B	$19 B	$184.8 B	$200.6 B
17	China Construction Bank	China	$58.2 B	$15.6 B	$1,408 B	$224.8 B
18	Wal-Mart Stores	United States	$421.8 B	$16.4 B	$180.7 B	$187.3 B
19	Total	France	$188.1 B	$14.2 B	$192.8 B	$138 B
20	Allianz	Germany	$142.9 B	$6.7 B	$838.4 B	$62.7 B
21	Bank of China	China	$49.4 B	$11.9 B	$1,277.8 B	$143 B
22	ConocoPhillips	United States	$175.8 B	$11.4 B	$156.3 B	$109.1 B
22	Sinopec-China Petroleum	China	$284.8 B	$10.9 B	$148.7 B	$107.7 B
24	Volkswagen Group	Germany	$168.3 B	$9.1 B	$267.5 B	$70.3 B
25	Agricultural Bank of China	China	$49.4 B	$9.5 B	$1,298.2 B	$134 B
26	NestlÃ©	Switzerland	$112 B	$36.7 B	$117.7 B	$181.1 B
27	Vodafone	United Kingdom	$67.5 B	$13.1 B	$236.6 B	$148.2 B
28	ENI	Italy	$130.5 B	$8.4 B	$176.1 B	$96.8 B
29	American Intl Group	United States	$77.3 B	$7.8 B	$683.4 B	$67.1 B
29	GDF Suez	France	$113.1 B	$6.2 B	$245.5 B	$85.2 B
31	IBM	United States	$99.9 B	$14.8 B	$113.4 B	$198.1 B
31	TelefÃ³nica	Spain	$81.3 B	$13.6 B	$166.5 B	$113.3 B
33	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	$133.8 B	$13.7 B	$119.3 B	$112.9 B
34	China Mobile	Hong Kong-China	$71.8 B	$17.7 B	$129.3 B	$192.1 B
35	Procter & Gamble	United States	$79.6 B	$11.2 B	$134.3 B	$172.2 B
36	Pfizer	United States	$67.8 B	$8.3 B	$195 B	$155.7 B
37	Goldman Sachs Group	United States	$46 B	$8.4 B	$911.3 B	$90 B
38	E.ON	Germany	$124.6 B	$7.9 B	$205.1 B	$64 B
39	ING Group	Netherlands	$149.2 B	$4.3 B	$1,665.3 B	$46.8 B
40	UBS	Switzerland	$49.8 B	$7.7 B	$1,403 B	$70.8 B
41	Barclays	United Kingdom	$63.9 B	$5.6 B	$2,328.3 B	$58.3 B
42	Hewlett-Packard	United States	$127.2 B	$9.1 B	$119.9 B	$90.3 B
43	Daimler	Germany	$130.9 B	$6 B	$178.7 B	$70.5 B
44	SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale	France	$85.4 B	$5.3 B	$1,518.7 B	$46.9 B
45	Siemens	Germany	$103.5 B	$5.3 B	$135 B	$110.2 B
46	Banco Bradesco	Brazil	$70.1 B	$6 B	$373.5 B	$63.3 B
47	Apple	United States	$76.3 B	$16.6 B	$86.7 B	$324.3 B
48	AXA Group	France	$162.4 B	$3.7 B	$981.8 B	$46.4 B
48	Nippon Telegraph & Tel	Japan	$108.9 B	$5.3 B	$193.8 B	$70.3 B
50	Microsoft	United States	$66.7 B	$20.6 B	$92.3 B	$215.8 B
51	Banco do Brasil	Brazil	$68.9 B	$7.1 B	$488.7 B	$48.5 B
52	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial	Japan	$51 B	$4.2 B	$2,177.4 B	$74.5 B
53	Vale	Brazil	$50.1 B	$18.1 B	$127.8 B	$162.5 B
54	Ford Motor	United States	$129 B	$6.6 B	$164.7 B	$54.3 B
55	Toyota Motor	Japan	$202.8 B	$2.2 B	$323.5 B	$137.8 B
55	ENEL	Italy	$96.5 B	$5.9 B	$217.4 B	$54 B
57	Johnson & Johnson	United States	$61.6 B	$13.3 B	$102.9 B	$163.3 B
58	Rio Tinto	United Kingdom	$56.6 B	$14.3 B	$112.4 B	$131.6 B
59	Credit Suisse Group	Switzerland	$53.9 B	$5.2 B	$1,097.1 B	$50.7 B
60	Statoil	Norway	$90.4 B	$6.5 B	$110.3 B	$83.8 B
61	General Motors	United States	$135.6 B	$6.2 B	$138.9 B	$49.8 B

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