This Post is about US Fortune500 companies and some Interesting facts I Identified. Do read the last Paragraph of this Post Very Carefully but only after going through the complete topic because it has something special for you. So lets begin with the post:-
First I show you the List of Fortune 500 Companies enlisted according to the Revenue and Profit Booked last year. Courtesy:- CNN Money
| Rank | Company | Revenues ($ millions) | Profits ($ millions) |
| 1 | Exxon Mobil | 452926 | 41060 |
| 2 | Wal-Mart Stores | 446950 | 15699 |
| 3 | Chevron | 245621 | 26895 |
| 4 | ConocoPhillips | 237272 | 12436 |
| 5 | General Motors | 150276 | 9190 |
| 6 | General Electric | 147616 | 14151 |
| 7 | Berkshire Hathaway | 143688 | 10254 |
| 8 | Fannie Mae | 137451 | -16855 |
| 9 | Ford Motor | 136264 | 20213 |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard | 127245 | 7074 |
| 11 | AT&T | 126723 | 3944 |
| 12 | Valero Energy | 125095 | 2090 |
| 13 | Bank of America Corp. | 115074 | 1446 |
| 14 | McKesson | 112084 | 1202 |
| 15 | Verizon Communications | 110875 | 2404 |
| 16 | J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. | 110838 | 18976 |
| 17 | Apple | 108249 | 25922 |
| 18 | CVS Caremark | 107750 | 3461 |
| 19 | International Business Machines | 106916 | 15855 |
| 20 | Citigroup | 102939 | 11067 |
| 21 | Cardinal Health | 102644.2 | 959 |
| 22 | UnitedHealth Group | 101862 | 5142 |
| 23 | Kroger | 90374 | 602 |
| 24 | Costco Wholesale | 88915 | 1462 |
| 25 | Freddie Mac | 88262 | -5266 |
| 26 | Wells Fargo | 87597 | 15869 |
| 27 | Procter & Gamble | 82559 | 11797 |
| 28 | Archer Daniels Midland | 80676 | 2036 |
| 29 | AmerisourceBergen | 80217.6 | 706.6 |
| 30 | INTL FCStone | 75497.6 | 37.3 |
| 31 | Marathon Petroleum | 73645 | 2389 |
| 32 | Walgreen | 72184 | 2714 |
| 33 | American International Group | 71730 | 17798 |
| 34 | MetLife | 70641 | 6981 |
| 35 | Home Depot | 70395 | 3883 |
| 36 | Medco Health Solutions | 70063.3 | 1455.7 |
| 37 | Microsoft | 69943 | 23150 |
| 38 | Target | 69865 | 2929 |
| 39 | Boeing | 68735 | 4018 |
| 40 | Pfizer | 67932 | 10009 |
| 41 | PepsiCo | 66504 | 6443 |
| 42 | Johnson & Johnson | 65030 | 9672 |
| 43 | State Farm Insurance Cos. | 64305.1 | 845 |
| 44 | Dell | 62071 | 3492 |
| 45 | WellPoint | 60710.7 | 2646.7 |
| 46 | Caterpillar | 60138 | 4928 |
| 47 | Dow Chemical | 59985 | 2742 |
| 48 | United Technologies | 58190 | 4979 |
| 49 | Comcast | 55842 | 4160 |
| 50 | Kraft Foods | 54365 | 3527 |
| 51 | Intel | 53999 | 12942 |
| 52 | United Parcel Service | 53105 | 3804 |
| 53 | Best Buy | 50272 | 1277 |
| 54 | Lowe’s | 50208 | 1839 |
| 55 | Prudential Financial | 49045 | 3666 |
| 56 | Amazon.com | 48077 | 631 |
| 57 | Merck | 48047 | 6272 |
| 58 | Lockheed Martin | 46692 | 2655 |
| 59 | Coca-Cola | 46542 | 8572 |
| 60 | Express Scripts Holding | 46128.3 | 1275.8 |
| 61 | Sunoco | 45765 | -1684 |
| 62 | Enterprise Products Partners | 44313 | 2046.9 |
| 63 | Safeway | 43630.2 | 516.7 |
| 64 | Cisco Systems | 43218 | 6490 |
| 65 | Sears Holdings | 41567 | -3140 |
| 66 | Walt Disney | 40893 | 4807 |
| 67 | Johnson Controls | 40833 | 1624 |
| 68 | Morgan Stanley | 39376 | 4110 |
| 69 | Sysco | 39323.5 | 1152 |
| 70 | FedEx | 39304 | 1452 |
| 71 | Abbott Laboratories | 38851.3 | 4728.4 |
| 72 | DuPont | 38719 | 3474 |
| 73 | 37905 | 9737 | |
| 74 | Hess | 37871 | 1703 |
| 75 | Supervalu | 37534 | -1510 |
| 76 | United Continental Holdings | 37110 | 840 |
| 77 | Honeywell International | 37059 | 2067 |
| 78 | CHS | 36915.8 | 961.4 |
| 79 | Humana | 36832 | 1419 |
| 80 | Goldman Sachs Group | 36793 | 4442 |
| 81 | Ingram Micro | 36328.7 | 244.2 |
| 82 | Oracle | 35622 | 8547 |
| 83 | Delta Air Lines | 35115 | 854 |
| 84 | Liberty Mutual Insurance Group | 34671 | 365 |
| 85 | World Fuel Services | 34622.9 | 194 |
| 86 | New York Life Insurance | 34393.5 | 557.3 |
| 87 | Plains All American Pipeline | 34275 | 966 |
| 88 | TIAA-CREF | 34079 | 2388.4 |
| 89 | Aetna | 33779.8 | 1985.7 |
| 90 | Sprint Nextel | 33679 | -2890 |
| 91 | News Corp. | 33405 | 2739 |
| 92 | General Dynamics | 32677 | 2526 |
| 93 | Allstate | 32654 | 788 |
| 94 | HCA Holdings | 32506 | 2465 |
| 95 | American Express | 32282 | 4935 |
| 96 | Tyson Foods | 32266 | 750 |
| 97 | Deere | 32012.5 | 2799.9 |
| 98 | Murphy Oil | 31446.3 | 872.7 |
| 99 | Philip Morris International | 31097 | 8591 |
| 100 | Nationwide | 30697.8 | -793.1 |
| 101 | Tesoro | 29927 | 546 |
| 102 | 3M | 29611 | 4283 |
| 103 | Time Warner | 28974 | 2886 |
| 104 | Northrop Grumman | 28058 | 2118 |
| 105 | DirecTV | 27226 | 2609 |
| 106 | Publix Super Markets | 27178.8 | 1492 |
| 107 | McDonald’s | 27006 | 5503.1 |
| 108 | Avnet | 26534.4 | 669.1 |
| 109 | Tech Data | 26488.1 | 206.4 |
| 110 | Macy’s | 26405 | 1256 |
| 111 | International Paper | 26034 | 1341 |
| 112 | Travelers Cos. | 25446 | 1426 |
| 113 | Rite Aid | 25214.9 | -555.4 |
| 114 | Staples | 25022.2 | 984.7 |
| 115 | Alcoa | 24951 | 611 |
| 116 | Northwestern Mutual | 24861 | 645.1 |
| 117 | Raytheon | 24857 | 1866 |
| 118 | Halliburton | 24829 | 2839 |
| 119 | Eli Lilly | 24286.5 | 4347.7 |
| 120 | Emerson Electric | 24234 | 2480 |
| 121 | Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance | 24226.4 | 877.4 |
| 122 | Occidental Petroleum | 24216 | 6771 |
| 123 | AMR | 23979 | -1979 |
| 124 | Fluor | 23381.4 | 593.7 |
| 125 | TJX | 23191.5 | 1496.1 |
| 126 | Goodyear Tire & Rubber | 22767 | 343 |
| 127 | Xerox | 22626 | 1295 |
| 128 | Aflac | 22171 | 1964 |
| 129 | Manpower | 22006 | 251.6 |
| 130 | Cigna | 21998 | 1327 |
| 131 | Hartford Financial Services Group | 21918 | 662 |
| 132 | U.S. Bancorp | 21399 | 4872 |
| 133 | Arrow Electronics | 21390.3 | 598.8 |
| 134 | Bristol-Myers Squibb | 21244 | 3709 |
| 135 | Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold | 20880 | 4560 |
| 136 | Nike | 20862 | 2133 |
| 137 | Kimberly-Clark | 20846 | 1591 |
| 138 | Nucor | 20023.6 | 778.2 |
| 139 | EMC | 20007.6 | 2461.3 |
| 140 | United States Steel | 19884 | -53 |
| 141 | Baker Hughes | 19831 | 1739 |
| 142 | Time Warner Cable | 19675 | 1665 |
| 143 | Union Pacific | 19557 | 3292 |
| 144 | United Services Automobile Assn. | 19036.1 | 2128.3 |
| 145 | Exelon | 18924 | 2495 |
| 146 | Kohl’s | 18804 | 1167 |
| 147 | Whirlpool | 18666 | 390 |
| 148 | Capital One Financial | 18525 | 3147 |
| 149 | Illinois Tool Works | 18256.8 | 2071.4 |
| 150 | Cummins | 18048 | 1848 |
| 151 | AES | 17759 | 58 |
| 152 | Southern | 17657 | 2203 |
| 153 | J.C. Penney | 17260 | -152 |
| 154 | Apache | 16888 | 4584 |
| 155 | Colgate-Palmolive | 16734 | 2431 |
| 156 | Altria Group | 16619 | 3390 |
| 157 | Jabil Circuit | 16518.8 | 381.1 |
| 158 | Danaher | 16476.4 | 2172.3 |
| 159 | Paccar | 16355.2 | 1042.3 |
| 160 | FirstEnergy | 16258 | 885 |
| 161 | TRW Automotive Holdings | 16244 | 1157 |
| 162 | Computer Sciences | 16144 | 740 |
| 163 | Eaton | 16049 | 1350 |
| 164 | Medtronic | 15933 | 3096 |
| 165 | PNC Financial Services Group | 15820 | 3056 |
| 166 | Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | 15804 | 2516 |
| 167 | Southwest Airlines | 15658 | 178 |
| 168 | Amgen | 15582 | 3683 |
| 169 | Progressive | 15508.1 | 1015.5 |
| 170 | HollyFrontier | 15439.5 | 1023.4 |
| 171 | CenturyLink | 15351 | 573 |
| 172 | NextEra Energy | 15341 | 1923 |
| 173 | Marathon Oil | 15282 | 2946 |
| 174 | L-3 Communications | 15169 | 956 |
| 175 | Oneok | 15119.2 | 360.6 |
| 176 | American Electric Power | 15116 | 1941 |
| 177 | Viacom | 14963 | 2136 |
| 178 | Qualcomm | 14962 | 4260 |
| 179 | PG&E Corp. | 14956 | 844 |
| 180 | PPG Industries | 14885 | 1095 |
| 181 | General Mills | 14880.2 | 1798.3 |
| 182 | Global Partners | 14835.7 | 19.4 |
| 183 | Dollar General | 14807.2 | 766.7 |
| 184 | National Oilwell Varco | 14658 | 1994 |
| 185 | Gap | 14549 | 833 |
| 186 | Duke Energy | 14529 | 1706 |
| 187 | Dominion Resources | 14379 | 1408 |
| 188 | CBS | 14245 | 1305 |
| 189 | Lear | 14156.5 | 540.7 |
| 190 | Loews | 14127 | 1064 |
| 191 | DISH Network | 14048.4 | 1515.9 |
| 192 | Anadarko Petroleum | 13967 | -2649 |
| 193 | Navistar International | 13958 | 1723 |
| 194 | Toys “R” Us | 13909 | 149 |
| 195 | Baxter International | 13893 | 2224 |
| 196 | Omnicom Group | 13872.5 | 952.6 |
| 197 | AutoNation | 13832.4 | 281.4 |
| 198 | Community Health Systems | 13817 | 201.9 |
| 199 | Constellation Energy | 13758.2 | -340.3 |
| 200 | Texas Instruments | 13735 | 2236 |
| 201 | Ally Financial | 13642 | -157 |
| 202 | Chubb | 13585 | 1678 |
| 203 | Waste Management | 13378 | 961 |
| 204 | Aramark | 13244.7 | 100.1 |
| 205 | Kellogg | 13198 | 1231 |
| 206 | Motorola Mobility Holdings | 13064 | -249 |
| 207 | Dean Foods | 13055.5 | -1575.6 |
| 208 | US Airways Group | 13055 | 71 |
| 209 | Consolidated Edison | 12938 | 1051 |
| 210 | Land O’Lakes | 12849.3 | 182.2 |
| 211 | Edison International | 12760 | -37 |
| 212 | PPL | 12756 | 1495 |
| 213 | Yum Brands | 12626 | 1319 |
| 214 | Genuine Parts | 12458.9 | 565.1 |
| 215 | ConAgra Foods | 12395.5 | 817 |
| 216 | Parker Hannifin | 12345.9 | 1049.1 |
| 217 | Marriott International | 12317 | 198 |
| 218 | Smithfield Foods | 12202.7 | 521 |
| 219 | Coventry Health Care | 12186.7 | 543.1 |
| 220 | Sara Lee | 12103 | 1287 |
| 221 | Health Net | 11901 | 72.1 |
| 222 | Penske Automotive Group | 11869.5 | 176.9 |
| 223 | Icahn Enterprises | 11855 | 750 |
| 224 | Monsanto | 11822 | 1607 |
| 225 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | 11780.2 | 1329.9 |
| 226 | CSX | 11743 | 1822 |
| 227 | Starbucks | 11700.4 | 1245.7 |
| 228 | eBay | 11651.7 | 3229.4 |
| 229 | Chesapeake Energy | 11635 | 1742 |
| 230 | Liberty Interactive | 11624 | 912 |
| 231 | Marsh & McLennan | 11526 | 993 |
| 232 | Devon Energy | 11497 | 4704 |
| 233 | Office Depot | 11489.5 | 95.7 |
| 234 | Avon Products | 11291.6 | 513.6 |
| 235 | Aon | 11287 | 979 |
| 236 | Textron | 11275 | 242 |
| 237 | Huntsman | 11259 | 247 |
| 238 | Praxair | 11252 | 1672 |
| 239 | Entergy | 11229.1 | 1346.4 |
| 240 | Public Service Enterprise Group | 11191 | 1503 |
| 241 | Norfolk Southern | 11172 | 1916 |
| 242 | Nordstrom | 10877 | 683 |
| 243 | First Data | 10713.6 | -516.1 |
| 244 | H.J. Heinz | 10706.6 | 989.5 |
| 245 | SAIC | 10657 | 59 |
| 246 | Xcel Energy | 10654.8 | 841.2 |
| 247 | Lincoln National | 10635.6 | 293.8 |
| 248 | Ameriprise Financial | 10621 | 1076 |
| 249 | R.R. Donnelley & Sons | 10611 | -122.6 |
| 250 | Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America | 10571.3 | 209.9 |
| 251 | Applied Materials | 10517 | 1926 |
| 252 | Stanley Black & Decker | 10437.6 | 674.6 |
| 253 | Synnex | 10409.8 | 150.3 |
| 254 | Jacobs Engineering Group | 10381.7 | 331 |
| 255 | Peter Kiewit Sons’ | 10381 | 573 |
| 256 | Limited Brands | 10364 | 850.1 |
| 257 | Newmont Mining | 10358 | 366 |
| 258 | Genworth Financial | 10344 | 122 |
| 259 | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | 10336.3 | 431.6 |
| 260 | Unum Group | 10278 | 235.4 |
| 261 | Liberty Global | 10246.5 | -772.7 |
| 262 | State Street Corp. | 10207 | 1920 |
| 263 | EOG Resources | 10126.1 | 1091.1 |
| 264 | Whole Foods Market | 10107.8 | 342.6 |
| 265 | Air Products & Chemicals | 10082 | 1224.2 |
| 266 | Sempra Energy | 10036 | 1357 |
| 267 | BB&T Corp. | 9998 | 1289 |
| 268 | Mosaic | 9937.8 | 2514.6 |
| 269 | Automatic Data Processing | 9879.5 | 1254.2 |
| 270 | CDW | 9602.4 | 17.1 |
| 271 | SunTrust Banks | 9602 | 647 |
| 272 | Tenet Healthcare | 9601 | 82 |
| 273 | GameStop | 9550.5 | 339.9 |
| 274 | Motorola Solutions | 9549 | 1158 |
| 275 | URS | 9545 | -465.8 |
| 276 | Western Digital | 9526 | 726 |
| 277 | VF | 9459.2 | 888.1 |
| 278 | Las Vegas Sands | 9410.7 | 1560.1 |
| 279 | CarMax | 9402.2 | 380.9 |
| 280 | KBR | 9261 | 480 |
| 281 | Visa | 9188 | 3650 |
| 282 | Enbridge Energy Partners | 9109.8 | 624 |
| 283 | BlackRock | 9081 | 2337 |
| 284 | NRG Energy | 9079 | 197 |
| 285 | Western Refining | 9071 | 132.7 |
| 286 | Progress Energy | 8907 | 575 |
| 287 | DTE Energy | 8897 | 711 |
| 288 | Caesars Entertainment | 8834.5 | -687.6 |
| 289 | Reinsurance Group of America | 8829.5 | 599.6 |
| 290 | Estée Lauder | 8810 | 700.8 |
| 291 | Micron Technology | 8788 | 167 |
| 292 | AGCO | 8773.2 | 583.3 |
| 293 | Sherwin-Williams | 8765.7 | 441.9 |
| 294 | Bed Bath & Beyond | 8758.5 | 791.3 |
| 295 | Principal Financial | 8709.6 | 715 |
| 296 | Crown Holdings | 8644 | 282 |
| 297 | Ball | 8630.9 | 444 |
| 298 | Owens & Minor | 8627.9 | 115.2 |
| 299 | Ross Stores | 8608.3 | 657.2 |
| 300 | Discover Financial Services | 8550.3 | 2226.7 |
| 301 | Family Dollar Stores | 8547.8 | 388.4 |
| 302 | Reynolds American | 8541 | 1406 |
| 303 | Henry Schein | 8530.2 | 367.7 |
| 304 | Dover | 8501.9 | 895.2 |
| 305 | CenterPoint Energy | 8450 | 1357 |
| 306 | Gilead Sciences | 8385.4 | 2803.6 |
| 307 | Ashland | 8370 | 414 |
| 308 | Stryker | 8307 | 1345 |
| 309 | Hertz Global Holdings | 8298.4 | 176.2 |
| 310 | Assurant | 8272.8 | 545.8 |
| 311 | Kinder Morgan | 8264.9 | 594.4 |
| 312 | Energy Transfer Equity | 8240.7 | 309.8 |
| 313 | Autoliv | 8232.4 | 623.4 |
| 314 | Republic Services | 8192.9 | 589.2 |
| 315 | Reliance Steel & Aluminum | 8134.7 | 343.8 |
| 316 | Peabody Energy | 8096 | 957.7 |
| 317 | Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea | 8078.5 | -598.6 |
| 318 | W.W. Grainger | 8078.2 | 658.4 |
| 319 | Goodrich | 8074.9 | 810.4 |
| 320 | AutoZone | 8073 | 849 |
| 321 | Visteon | 8047 | 80 |
| 322 | AECOM Technology | 8037.4 | 275.8 |
| 323 | Steel Dynamics | 7997.5 | 278.1 |
| 324 | Coca-Cola Enterprises | 7939 | 749 |
| 325 | Williams | 7930 | 376 |
| 326 | Commercial Metals | 7919.8 | -129.6 |
| 327 | Hormel Foods | 7895.1 | 474.2 |
| 328 | Corning | 7890 | 2805 |
| 329 | TravelCenters of America | 7888.9 | 23.6 |
| 330 | Sonic Automotive | 7871.3 | 76.3 |
| 331 | MGM Resorts International | 7849.3 | 3114.6 |
| 332 | Thrivent Financial for Lutherans | 7842.8 | 454.6 |
| 333 | Becton Dickinson | 7832.1 | 1271 |
| 334 | Campbell Soup | 7719 | 805 |
| 335 | Boston Scientific | 7622 | 441 |
| 336 | Dana Holding | 7592 | 219 |
| 337 | Oshkosh | 7584.7 | 273.4 |
| 338 | Masco | 7560 | -575 |
| 339 | Universal Health Services | 7534.1 | 398.2 |
| 340 | Ameren | 7531 | 519 |
| 341 | Quest Diagnostics | 7510.5 | 470.6 |
| 342 | Darden Restaurants | 7500.2 | 476.3 |
| 343 | Regions Financial | 7427 | -215 |
| 344 | Broadcom | 7389 | 927 |
| 345 | Owens-Illinois | 7358 | -510 |
| 346 | Eastman Chemical | 7283 | 696 |
| 347 | Pantry | 7271.8 | 9.8 |
| 348 | Cablevision Systems | 7252.3 | 291.9 |
| 349 | Dole Food | 7223.8 | 38.4 |
| 350 | Tenneco | 7205 | 157 |
| 351 | Charter Communications | 7204 | -369 |
| 352 | Spectrum Group International | 7203.4 | 3.8 |
| 353 | Franklin Resources | 7140 | 1923.6 |
| 354 | OfficeMax | 7121.2 | 34.9 |
| 355 | BorgWarner | 7114.7 | 550.1 |
| 356 | Alpha Natural Resources | 7109.2 | -677.4 |
| 357 | Energy Future Holdings | 7040 | -1913 |
| 358 | Interpublic Group | 7014.6 | 532.3 |
| 359 | DaVita | 6998.9 | 478 |
| 360 | Barnes & Noble | 6998.6 | -73.9 |
| 361 | Targa Resources | 6994.5 | 30.7 |
| 362 | Cameron International | 6959 | 521.9 |
| 363 | Winn-Dixie Stores | 6929.9 | -70.1 |
| 364 | Calpine | 6800 | -190 |
| 365 | Ecolab | 6798.5 | 462.5 |
| 366 | Cliffs Natural Resources | 6794.3 | 1619.1 |
| 367 | Avery Dennison | 6786.7 | 190.1 |
| 368 | Celanese | 6763 | 607 |
| 369 | NII Holdings | 6719.3 | 198.8 |
| 370 | MasterCard | 6714 | 1906 |
| 371 | Jarden | 6679.9 | 204.7 |
| 372 | Fifth Third Bancorp | 6673 | 1297 |
| 373 | Dollar Tree | 6630.5 | 488.3 |
| 374 | Weyerhaeuser | 6618 | 331 |
| 375 | Agilent Technologies | 6615 | 1012 |
| 376 | Sanmina-SCI | 6602.4 | 68.9 |
| 377 | NuStar Energy | 6575.3 | 221.5 |
| 378 | Advanced Micro Devices | 6568 | 491 |
| 379 | Terex | 6504.6 | 45.2 |
| 380 | CMS Energy | 6503 | 415 |
| 381 | AK Steel Holding | 6468 | -155.6 |
| 382 | American Family Insurance Group | 6400.2 | 295.2 |
| 383 | Dillard’s | 6399.8 | 463.9 |
| 384 | McGraw-Hill | 6336 | 911 |
| 385 | Amerigroup | 6318.4 | 195.6 |
| 386 | Anixter International | 6270.1 | 188.2 |
| 387 | Precision Castparts | 6267.2 | 1013.5 |
| 388 | Mattel | 6266 | 768.5 |
| 389 | Omnicare | 6239.9 | 86.9 |
| 390 | Corn Products International | 6219.4 | 415.7 |
| 391 | Symantec | 6190 | 597 |
| 392 | Advance Auto Parts | 6170.5 | 394.7 |
| 393 | Core-Mark Holding | 6163.4 | 26.2 |
| 394 | CC Media Holdings | 6161.4 | -302.1 |
| 395 | Expeditors International of Washington | 6150.5 | 385.7 |
| 396 | Mylan | 6129.8 | 536.8 |
| 397 | Wesco International | 6125.7 | 196.3 |
| 398 | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 6121.2 | 883.6 |
| 399 | Consol Energy | 6117.2 | 632.5 |
| 400 | PetSmart | 6113.3 | 290.2 |
| 401 | WellCare Health Plans | 6106.9 | 264.2 |
| 402 | CF Industries Holdings | 6097.9 | 1539.2 |
| 403 | UGI | 6091.3 | 232.9 |
| 404 | Hershey | 6080.8 | 629 |
| 405 | Group 1 Automotive | 6079.8 | 82.4 |
| 406 | MeadWestvaco | 6079 | 246 |
| 407 | Ryder System | 6050.5 | 169.8 |
| 408 | Eastman Kodak | 6022 | -764 |
| 409 | NiSource | 6019.1 | 299.1 |
| 410 | Rockwell Automation | 6000.4 | 697.8 |
| 411 | Mutual of Omaha Insurance | 5974.1 | 130 |
| 412 | Shaw Group | 5937.7 | -175 |
| 413 | Harris | 5924.6 | 588 |
| 414 | Newell Rubbermaid | 5923.4 | 125.2 |
| 415 | Pepco Holdings | 5920 | 257 |
| 416 | CBRE Group | 5912.1 | 239.2 |
| 417 | Dr Pepper Snapple Group | 5903 | 606 |
| 418 | Avis Budget Group | 5900 | -29 |
| 419 | PVH | 5890.6 | 317.9 |
| 420 | Pacific Life | 5879 | 679 |
| 421 | General Cable | 5866.7 | 84.1 |
| 422 | Exelis | 5839 | 326 |
| 423 | Health Management Associates | 5822.1 | 178.7 |
| 424 | O’Reilly Automotive | 5788.8 | 507.7 |
| 425 | Fidelity National Information Services | 5757.4 | 469.6 |
| 426 | SLM | 5756 | 633 |
| 427 | Seaboard | 5746.9 | 345.8 |
| 428 | Emcor Group | 5731.7 | 130.8 |
| 429 | Auto-Owners Insurance | 5709.5 | 69.1 |
| 430 | SanDisk | 5662.1 | 987 |
| 431 | Ralph Lauren | 5660.3 | 567.6 |
| 432 | Mohawk Industries | 5642.3 | 173.9 |
| 433 | Sealed Air | 5640.9 | 149.1 |
| 434 | Starwood Hotels & Resorts | 5624 | 489 |
| 435 | Foot Locker | 5623 | 278 |
| 436 | Domtar | 5612 | 365 |
| 437 | St. Jude Medical | 5611.7 | 825.8 |
| 438 | Spectra Energy | 5602 | 1184 |
| 439 | Booz Allen Hamilton Holding | 5591.3 | 84.7 |
| 440 | CH2M Hill | 5555.2 | 113.3 |
| 441 | Kelly Services | 5551 | 63.7 |
| 442 | Avaya | 5547 | -863 |
| 443 | Laboratory Corp. of America | 5542.3 | 519.7 |
| 444 | Kindred Healthcare | 5523.3 | -53.5 |
| 445 | Western Union | 5491.4 | 1165.4 |
| 446 | SPX | 5461.9 | 180.6 |
| 447 | NCR | 5443 | 53 |
| 448 | Allergan | 5419.1 | 934.5 |
| 449 | Rock-Tenn | 5399.6 | 141.1 |
| 450 | Live Nation Entertainment | 5384 | -83 |
| 451 | Graybar Electric | 5374.8 | 81.4 |
| 452 | Momentive Specialty Chemicals | 5352 | 118 |
| 453 | Centene | 5340.6 | 111.2 |
| 454 | Owens Corning | 5335 | 276 |
| 455 | Catalyst Health Solutions | 5329.6 | 67 |
| 456 | Clorox | 5326 | 557 |
| 457 | Bemis | 5322.7 | 184.1 |
| 458 | Harley-Davidson | 5311.7 | 599.1 |
| 459 | Con-way | 5290 | 88.4 |
| 460 | Insight Enterprises | 5287.2 | 100.2 |
| 461 | Pitney Bowes | 5278 | 617.5 |
| 462 | Wynn Resorts | 5269.8 | 613.4 |
| 463 | BrightPoint | 5244.4 | 48.8 |
| 464 | Frontier Communications | 5243 | 149.6 |
| 465 | Gannett | 5240 | 458.7 |
| 466 | Dick’s Sporting Goods | 5211.8 | 263.9 |
| 467 | Big Lots | 5202.3 | 207.1 |
| 468 | Allegheny Technologies | 5183 | 214.3 |
| 469 | Telephone & Data Systems | 5180.5 | 200.6 |
| 470 | Timken | 5170.2 | 454.3 |
| 471 | W.R. Berkley | 5156 | 394.8 |
| 472 | Fidelity National Financial | 5153.7 | 369.5 |
| 473 | Casey’s General Stores | 5140.2 | 94.6 |
| 474 | NetApp | 5122.6 | 673.1 |
| 475 | FMC Technologies | 5099 | 399.8 |
| 476 | Biogen Idec | 5048.6 | 1234.4 |
| 477 | CVR Energy | 5029.1 | 345.8 |
| 478 | United Stationers | 5005.5 | 109 |
| 479 | Host Hotels & Resorts | 5003 | -15 |
| 480 | SunGard Data Systems | 4991 | -149 |
| 481 | Meritor | 4990 | 63 |
| 482 | Western & Southern Financial Group | 4986.4 | 450.4 |
| 483 | Yahoo | 4984.2 | 1048.8 |
| 484 | Vanguard Health Systems | 4895.9 | -10.9 |
| 485 | Charles Schwab | 4884 | 864 |
| 486 | Susser Holdings | 4873.8 | 47.5 |
| 487 | YRC Worldwide | 4868.8 | -351.3 |
| 488 | El Paso | 4860 | 141 |
| 489 | CIT Group | 4855.3 | 26.7 |
| 490 | MetroPCS Communications | 4847.4 | 301.3 |
| 491 | Alliant Techsystems | 4842.3 | 313.2 |
| 492 | Celgene | 4842.1 | 1318.2 |
| 493 | MRC Global | 4832.4 | 29 |
| 494 | Aleris | 4826.4 | 161.6 |
| 495 | J.M. Smucker | 4825.7 | 479.5 |
| 496 | Rockwell Collins | 4825 | 634 |
| 497 | Erie Insurance Group | 4824 | 169 |
| 498 | Nash-Finch | 4807.2 | 35.8 |
| 499 | KeyCorp | 4780 | 920 |
| 500 | Molina Healthcare | 4769.9 | 20.8 |
Now below are the Interesting Facts about these honchos:-
- 60 Companies which were able to make there place in Fortune List starts with Alphabet “C” followed by Alphabet “A” with 53 Companies and on third position are companies who’s names Starts with Alphabet “S” (37 numbers).
- Maximum Revenue share of the Companies are those which start with Alphabet “A” first and followed by “S” but unlikely third position is grabbed by the companies starting with alphabet “W”.
- Sum of Profit earned altogether by the companies alphabetically have following chronological order. First is “C”, second is “A” and third has again a new entrant “M”.
- Only 1 Company out of 500 has a name starting with a number which is “3”.
- Another Interesting Fact is none of the company which has a name starting with “Z” is in Fortune 500 list.
- Major Companies of Fortune 500 are of following fields IT, Telecom, Health, Financial Service, Insurance or Banking.
Suggestions Points for name of the company you are planning to launch are as follows.
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Keep name of the company starting with alphabet C or A.
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Avoid keeping the name with alphabet Z and numbers.
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Select business line in either of these IT/Telecom/Health/Financial Service, Insurance, Banking.
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The Fortune 500 Companies have one thing common they thought it big and hence they made it big.
I am attaching the complete listing based on which I did the analysis of Count/Sum of Revenue and Sum of Profits just for your reference.
| Alphabet | Sum of Revenues ($ millions) | Sum of Profits ($ millions) | Count |
| C | 1580297.9 | 116203.9 | 60 |
| A | 1126016.8 | 90087.9 | 53 |
| S | 575341.8 | 11845.8 | 37 |
| M | 806450 | 74495 | 35 |
| P | 574243 | 61918.4 | 28 |
| D | 438942.2 | 33899.9 | 25 |
| E | 773344.5 | 64415.2 | 24 |
| B | 548375.1 | 36918.6 | 22 |
| T | 413242.3 | 20854.8 | 22 |
| W | 866398.7 | 48861.8 | 21 |
| N | 318353.8 | 18586 | 21 |
| G | 562323.7 | 47998.6 | 20 |
| H | 490827 | 27441.9 | 20 |
| F | 521750.9 | 10342.1 | 16 |
| U | 381652 | 25585 | 14 |
| L | 251079.9 | 10881.9 | 14 |
| R | 138352.1 | 6779.1 | 14 |
| O | 148374.7 | 17511 | 12 |
| K | 230967.2 | 10122.6 | 10 |
| I | 341188.9 | 33873.4 | 9 |
| J | 272367.1 | 31516.3 | 8 |
| V | 282523.1 | 11237.2 | 7 |
| Y | 22479 | 2016.5 | 3 |
| X | 33280.8 | 2136.2 | 2 |
| Q | 22472.5 | 4730.6 | 2 |
| 3 | 29611 | 4283 | 1 |
| Grand Total | 11750256 | 824542.7 | 500 |
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