Fortune 500: The Largest Companies In The US In 2013

The Fortune 500 is an annual list of the largest corporations in the US, based on their gross revenue. The list was first published in 1955, giving a snapshot of America’s commercial progress, where the money has gone and how it’s moved to new industries over time.

The Fortune 500 is an annual list of the largest corporations in the US, based on their gross revenue. The list was first published in 1955, giving a snapshot of America’s commercial progress, where the money has gone and how it’s moved to new industries over time.

Over the years, to be included in the Fortune 500 has been considered as a mark of prestige for American companies. The long-held repute of the list also makes the Fortune 500 the most renowned ranking of corporations, ahead of similar lists such as the Fortune Global 500 or the Forbes Global 2000.

Since its inception, only three companies have ever held the No. 1 spot on the list: General Motors, Walmart and ExxonMobil. More than 2,000 companies have been featured on the Fortune 500 since, though only 57 original Fortune 500 companies have been on the list every year.

The current list was published on July 9, 2013 – ranking companies by their total revenues for the respective fiscal years ended on or before March 31, 2013. The revenue figures include consolidated subsidiaries and reported revenues from discontinued operations, but exclude excise taxes.

In total, the 500 companies on the list saw revenues increase by 2.7 percent this year to over $12.063 trillion, though profits were down by 0.5 percent to $820 billion. Based on their revenue alone, the 500 companies would be the second largest economy in the world, only behind the US economy itself and surpassing even China.

Notably, the financial sector showed the highest growth in profits year-over-year at 33.5 percent – demonstrating the gradual recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. Meanwhile energy companies continue to dominate the list (making up four out of the top ten), though they have seen their profits decline by 6.7 percent this year.

Check out the 2013 list of the Fortune 500’s top 100 companies below, or browse all the companies, by alphabetical order, at the bottom of this article:

Rank	Company	Revenue ($million)	Profit ($million)
1	Wal-Mart Stores	469,162	16,999
2	Exxon Mobil	449,886	44,880
3	Chevron	233,899	26,179
4	Phillips 66	428,167	4,124
5	Berkshire Hathaway	162,463	14,824
6	Apple	156,508	41,733
7	General Motors	152,256	6,188
8	General Electric	265,702	13,641
9	Valero Energy	138,286	2,083
10	Ford Motor	134,252	5,665
11	AT&T	127,434	7,264
12	Fannie Mae	127,230	17,220
13	CVS Caremark	123,133	3,876.9
14	McKesson	122,734	1,403
15	Hewlett-Packard	120,357	-12,650
16	Verizon Communications	115,846	875
17	UnitedHealth Group	110,618	5,526
18	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.	108,184	21,284
19	Cardinal Health	107,552	1,069
20	IBM	104,507	16,604
21	Bank of America Corp.	100,078	4,188
22	Costco Wholesale	99,137	1,709
23	Kroger	96,751	1,497
24	Express Scripts Holding	94,417	1,313
25	Wells Fargo	91,247	18,897
26	Citigroup	90,769	7,541
27	Archer Daniels Midland	89,038	1,223
28	Procter & Gamble	85,120	10,756
29	Prudential Financial	84,838	469
30	Boeing	81,698	3,900
31	Freddie Mac	80,635	10,982
32	AmerisourceBergen	79,721	719
33	Marathon Petroleum	76,783	3,389
34	Home Depot	74,754	4,535
35	Microsoft	73,723	16,978
36	Target	73,301	2,999
37	Walgreen	71,633	2,127
38	American International Group	70,143	3,438
39	INTL FCStone	69,261	15
40	MetLife	68,224	1,324
41	Johnson & Johnson	67,224	10,853
42	Caterpillar	65,875	5,681
43	PepsiCo	65,492	6,178
44	State Farm Insurance Cos.	65,286	3,159
45	ConocoPhillips	63,373	8,428
46	Comcast	62,570	6,203
47	WellPoint	61,712	2,656
48	Pfizer	61,244	14,570
49	Amazon.com	61,093	-39
50	United Technologies	59,783	5,130
51	Dell	56,940	2,372
52	Dow Chemical	56,786	1,182
53	United Parcel Service	54,127	807
54	Intel	53,341	11,005
55	Google	52,203	10,737
56	Lowe’s	50,521	1,959
57	Coca-Cola	48,017	9,019
58	Merck	47,267	6,168
59	Lockheed Martin	47,182	2,745
60	Cisco Systems	46,061	8,041
61	Best Buy	45,087	-441
62	Safeway	44,207	597
63	FedEx	42,680	2,032
64	Enterprise Products Partners	42,583	2,420
65	Sysco	42,381	1,122
66	Walt Disney	42,278	5,682
67	Johnson Controls	41,955	1,226
68	Goldman Sachs Group	41,664	7,475
69	CHS	40,599	1,261
70	Abbott Laboratories	39,874	5,963
71	Sears Holdings	39,854	-930
72	DuPont	39,528	2,788
73	Humana	39,126	1,222
74	World Fuel Services	38,945	189
75	Hess	38,373	2,025
76	Ingram Micro	37,827	306
77	Plains All American Pipeline	37,797	1,094
78	Honeywell International	37,665	2,926
79	United Continental Holdings	37,152	-723
80	Oracle	37,121	9,981
81	Liberty Mutual Inusrance Group	36,944	829
82	HCA Holdings	36,783	1,605
83	Delta Air Lines	36,670	1,009
84	Aetna	36,596	1,658
85	Deere	36,157	3,065
86	Supervalu	36,100	-1,040
87	Sprint Nextel	35,345	-4,236
88	Mondelēz International	35,015	3,028
89	New York Life Insurance	34,309	1,333
90	American Express	33,808	4,482
91	News Corp.	33,706	1,179
92	Allstate	33,315	2,306
93	Tyson Foods	33,278	583
94	Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance	32,872	1,115
95	Tesoro	32,484	743
96	Morgan Stanley	32,355	68
97	TIAA-CREF	32,156	2,060
98	General Dynamics	31,513	-332
99	Philip Morris International	31,377	8,800
100	Nationwide	30,356	749

 

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LIST OF FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES – BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER
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