FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Top companies
Fastest Growing Companies: Growth in Revenues (5 Yr.)
1 ConocoPhillips 6 51.0
2 Caremark Rx 60 49.4
3 World Fuel Services 264 48.2
4 Time Warner 40 44.7
5 Countrywide Financial 122 42.7
6 Atmos Energy 430 42.4
7 Valero Energy 15 40.9
8 Wellpoint 38 38.8
9 L-3 Communications 253 37.7
10 Yahoo 412 36.5
11 AmerisourceBergen 27 36.3
12 Hovnanian Enterprises 403 36.3
13 Lyondell Chemical 121 35.8
14 Constellation Energy 125 35.0
15 Cendant 114 33.0
16 National Oilwell Varco 452 32.2
17 Enterprise Products 183 31.9
18 Triad Hospitals 432 31.8
19 Chevron 4 31.6
20 Devon Energy 219 31.0
21 D.R. Horton 162 30.6
22 Pilgrim's Pride 382 30.5
23 Northrop Grumman 67 30.0
24 Calpine 275 29.7
25 Tyson Foods 80 29.4
26 Pulte Homes 147 29.1
27 WPS Resources 318 29.0
28 Fidelity National Financial 248 28.7
29 Amgen 181 27.9
30 Apache 299 27.1
31 Beazer Homes USA 429 26.7
32 Tesoro 132 26.4
33 Toll Brothers 370 26.1
34 Echostar Communications 273 25.4
35 Amazon.com 272 25.2
36 Standard Pacific 493 24.9
37 Sanmina-SCI 198 24.6
38 Terex 355 24.2
39 Lennar 161 24.1
40 Starbucks 338 24.0
41 Newmont Mining 461 23.4
42 St. Paul Travelers Cos. 85 23.1
43 W.R. Berkley 428 22.9
44 Archer Daniels Midland 56 22.8
45 MDC Holdings 437 22.8
46 Nucor 177 22.6
47 UGI 436 22.6
48 First American Corp. 284 22.4
49 Bed Bath & Beyond 419 22.3
50 Comcast 94 22.1
From the April 17th, 2006 issue
How the states stack up
Texas 56
New York 55
California 52
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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
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Most profitable companies
Exxon Mobil 36,130.0
Citigroup 24,589.0
Bank of America Corp. 16,465.0
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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)