FORTUNE 500
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Industry: Chemicals
Revenues, Profits
Profits as % of...
EPS, Total return, Employees
  
EARNINGS PER SHARE TOTAL RETURN TO INVESTORS EMPLOYEES
1 Dow Chemical 4 8 -6 42,578 0
2 DuPont 1 3 19 59,000 -2
3 Lyondell Chemical -8 7 12 10,905 9
4 Huntsman N.A. N.A. 10 15,000 39
5 PPG Industries 1 4 14 32,200 5
6 Ashland 7 9 40 11,700 -44
7 Air Products & Chem. 5 9 21 20,350 3
8 Praxair 13 11 14 27,042 -1
9 Rohm & Haas 6 9 8 15,815 -4
10 Sherwin-Williams 12 11 43 30,767 5
11 Eastman Chemical 0 5 19 11,000 -8
12 Monsanto N.A. N.A. 37 19,650 2
13 Celanese N.A. N.A. 36 8,900 -4
14 Avery Dennison 8 9 26 22,700 0
15 Mosaic N.A. N.A. 46 7,600 -11
16 Hexion Specialty Chemicals N.A. N.A. N.A. 7,000 0
17 Ecolab 13 18 26 23,220 4
18 Lubrizol -6 8 18 6,700 -11
19 Chemtura N.A. -5 -23 6,187 3
20 Nalco Holding N.A. N.A. 16 11,100 2
21 Rockwood Holdings N.A. N.A. 28 9,525 -12
22 Cytec Industries 7 4 20 6,700 -8
23 RPM International N.A. 8 25 9,213 12
24 Valspar 11 9 14 9,556 27
25 Solutia N.A. N.A. 66 5,100 -6
26 W.R. Grace N.A. N.A. 111 6,500 2
27 UAP Holding N.A. N.A. 27 3,163 -4
28 Scotts Miracle-Gro N.A. 18 15 5,720 8
29 PolyOne 18 -1 17 4,600 2
30 Cabot -7 13 24 4,300 -2
31 Westlake Chemical N.A. N.A. 9 2,056 11
32 Georgia Gulf -3 -2 -36 6,654 493
33 Albemarle 1 17 90 3,560 -4
34 FMC -5 7 45 5,000 0
35 Intl. Flavors & Frag. 4 4 50 5,087 -1
36 Ferro -10 3 14 6,660 -3
37 Hercules -3 -7 71 4,430 -5
38 CF Industries N.A. N.A. 69 1,420 -2
39 Terra Industries N.A. -2 114 1,238 2
40 Sigma-Aldrich 11 11 24 7,299 7
41 Schulman (A.) 0 2 6 2,480 3
42 Valhi 12 17 43 3,698 -2
From the April 30th, 2007 issue
Footnote:
Due to slight differences in rounding, industry data online may not exactly match the FORTUNE 500 magazine version.
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