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FORTUNE 500

Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations

Top companies: Biggest

Rank	Company	500 Rank	3/28/2008 ($ millions)
1	Exxon Mobil	2	455,929.3
2	General Electric	6	365,582.4
3	Microsoft	44	259,757.8
4	AT&T	10	227,305.4
5	Procter & Gamble	23	213,701.5
6	Wal-Mart Stores	1	208,730.6
7	Berkshire Hathaway	11	206,976.1
8	Johnson & Johnson	35	181,615.2
9	Chevron	3	175,479.5
10	Bank of America Corp.	9	169,115.7
11	International Business Machines	15	158,602.8
12	Altria Group	61	155,655.9
13	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.	12	145,066.2
14	Cisco Systems	71	143,540.8
15	Coca-Cola	83	141,625.3
16	Pfizer	47	138,655.2
17	Google	150	137,285.1
18	Apple	103	125,688.1
19	Intel	60	120,332.5
20	ConocoPhillips	5	120,284.6
21	PepsiCo	59	114,151.1
22	Hewlett-Packard	14	113,625.6
23	Citigroup	8	109,255.4
24	American International Group	13	107,956.0
25	Verizon Communications	17	102,531.0
26	Oracle	137	99,495.7
27	Merck	101	97,222.1
28	Wells Fargo	41	96,769.1
29	Abbott Laboratories	96	82,032.3
30	United Parcel Service	46	74,743.1
31	United Technologies	39	67,191.1
32	Goldman Sachs Group	20	64,976.0
33	Qualcomm	297	64,717.2
34	McDonald's	106	63,893.2
35	Monsanto	305	62,635.6
36	Occidental Petroleum	123	60,169.0
37	News Corp.	84	58,604.6
38	CVS Caremark	24	58,492.3
39	Walt Disney	67	58,373.2
40	Eli Lilly	133	57,179.0
41	Comcast	79	56,901.9
42	U.S. Bancorp	122	56,574.0
43	Boeing	27	56,192.3
44	Wyeth	113	55,404.7
45	3M	100	55,162.3
46	Medtronic	217	53,748.1
47	Exelon	131	53,093.8
48	Wachovia Corp.	38	51,501.5
49	American Express	75	49,956.5
50	Time Warner	49	49,603.6

From the May 5, 2008 issue

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