Apple Places 55th on Fortune Top 500
Apple has placed 55th on Fortune's Global 500 Top Companies, an annual list of the world's biggest corporations. Apple moved up the list from 111th place last year. Samsung placed 20th. Top 3 are Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil and Walmart.
Here is the full list:
Rank ▾ Company Revenues
($ millions)Profits
($ millions)1 Royal Dutch Shell 484,489 30,918 2 Exxon Mobil 452,926 41,060 3 Wal-Mart Stores 446,950 15,699 4 BP 386,463 25,700 5 Sinopec Group 375,214 9,453 6 China National Petroleum 352,338 16,317 7 State Grid 259,142 5,678 8 Chevron 245,621 26,895 9 ConocoPhillips 237,272 12,436 10 Toyota Motor 235,364 3,591 11 Total 231,580 17,069 12 Volkswagen 221,551 21,426 13 Japan Post Holdings 211,019 5,939 14 Glencore International 186,152 4,048 15 Gazprom 157,831 44,460 16 E.ON 157,057 -3,085 17 ENI 153,676 9,539 18 ING Group 150,571 6,591 19 General Motors 150,276 9,190 20 Samsung Electronics 148,944 12,059 21 Daimler 148,139 7,880 22 General Electric 147,616 14,151 23 Petrobras 145,915 20,121 24 Berkshire Hathaway 143,688 10,254 25 AXA 142,712 6,012 26 Fannie Mae 137,451 -16,855 27 Ford Motor 136,264 20,213 28 Allianz 134,168 3,539 29 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 133,077 5,924 30 BNP Paribas 127,460 8,412 31 Hewlett-Packard 127,245 7,074 32 AT&T 126,723 3,944 33 GDF Suez 126,077 5,566 34 Pemex 125,344 -7,358 35 Valero Energy 125,095 2,090 36 PDVSA 124,754 2,640 37 McKesson 122,734 1,403 38 Hitachi 122,419 4,397 39 Carrefour 121,734 516 40 Statoil 119,561 14,055 41 JX Holdings 119,258 2,161 42 Nissan Motor 119,166 4,324 43 Hon Hai Precision Industry 117,514 2,777 44 Banco Santander 117,408 7,440 45 EXOR Group 117,297 701 46 Bank of America Corp. 115,074 1,446 47 Siemens 113,349 8,562 48 Assicurazioni Generali 112,628 1,190 49 Lukoil 111,433 10,357 50 Verizon Communications 110,875 2,404 51 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 110,838 18,976 52 Enel 110,560 5,768 53 HSBC Holdings 110,141 16,797 54 Industrial & Commercial Bank of China 109,040 32,214 55 Apple 108,249 25,922 56 CVS Caremark 107,750 3,461 57 International Business Machines 106,916 15,855 58 Crédit Agricole 105,156 -2,044 59 Tesco 103,839 4,484 60 Citigroup 102,939 11,067 61 Cardinal Health 102,644 959 62 BASF 102,194 8,604 63 UnitedHealth Group 101,862 5,142 64 Honda Motor 100,664 2,678 65 SK Holdings 100,394 1,510 66 Panasonic 99,373 -9,780 67 Société Générale 98,464 3,316 68 Petronas 97,355 21,915 69 BMW 95,692 6,787 70 ArcelorMittal 94,444 2,263 71 Nestlé 94,405 10,692 72 Metro 92,746 877 73 Électricité de France 90,806 4,185 74 Nippon Life Insurance 90,783 2,848 75 Kroger 90,374 602 76 Munich Re Group 90,137 976 77 China Construction Bank 89,648 26,181 78 Costco Wholesale 88,915 1,462 79 Freddie Mac 88,262 -5,266 80 Wells Fargo 87,597 15,869 81 China Mobile Communications 87,544 11,703 82 Telefónica 87,372 7,513 83 Indian Oil 86,016 882 84 Agricultural Bank of China 84,803 18,860 85 Peugeot 83,305 818 86 Procter & Gamble 82,559 11,797 87 Sony 82,237 -5,784 88 Banco do Brasil 81,887 7,577 89 Deutsche Telekom 81,554 775 90 Repsol YPF 81,122 3,049 91 Noble Group 80,732 431 92 Archer Daniels Midland 80,676 2,036 93 Bank of China 80,230 19,208 94 AmerisourceBergen 80,218 707 95 PTT 79,690 3,456 96 Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance 77,463 2,188 97 Toshiba 77,261 934 98 Deutsche Post 76,307 1,617 99 Reliance Industries 76,119 4,117 100 China State Construction Engineering 76,024 1,108