FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Industry: Insurance: Life, Health (stock)
1 MetLife 10 1 16
2 Prudential Financial 11 1 16
3 AFLAC 10 3 19
4 UnumProvident 5 1 7
5 Principal Financial 10 1 12
6 Assurant 6 2 13
7 Lincoln National 15 1 13
8 Pacific Life 11 1 10
9 Conseco 8 1 7
10 Jefferson-Pilot 14 2 15
11 Torchmark 16 3 14
12 Unitrin 8 3 12
13 American National Ins. 8 1 7
14 Phoenix 4 0 5
15 StanCorp Financial 9 2 15
16 Minnesota Life Ins. 8 1 8
17 UICI 10 9 23
18 Protective Life 12 1 11
19 AmerUs Group 12 1 11
From the April 17th, 2006 issue
Footnote:
Due to slight differences in rounding, industry data online may not exactly match the FORTUNE 500 magazine version.
How the states stack up
Texas 56
New York 55
California 52
See FORTUNE 500 Companies in Your State
Best employers
These companies appear on both the FORTUNE 500 and our 2006 ranking of the Best Companies to Work For.
FedEx 212,241
Intel 48,655
Starbucks 91,056
See the rest
Most profitable companies
Exxon Mobil 36,130.0
Citigroup 24,589.0
Bank of America Corp. 16,465.0
See the rest
Best investments
Best Investments By Industry: Total Return to Shareholders (1 Year)
Petroleum Refining 60.7%
Mining, Crude-Oil Production 53.6%
Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 51.6%
See the rest
Women CEOs of FORTUNE 500 companies
Andrea JungThere are more women running FORTUNE 500 companies this year than there were last year. Currently, 10 FORTUNE 500 companies are run by women (up from 9 last year), and a total of 20 FORTUNE 1000 companies have women in the top job (up from 19). (more)