Global 500 
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Top companies
Highest Profits
1 Exxon Mobil 2 39,500.0 9.3
2 Royal Dutch Shell 3 25,442.0 0.5
3 UAL* 366 22,876.0 N.A.
4 BP 4 22,000.0 -1.5
5 Citigroup 14 21,538.0 -12.4
6 Bank of America Corp. 21 21,133.0 28.4
7 General Electric 11 20,829.0 27.4
8 Gazprom 52 20,321.3 36.7
9 Pfizer 115 19,337.0 139.2
10 Chevron 7 17,138.0 21.6
11 HSBC Holdings 22 15,789.0 4.7
12 ConocoPhillips 9 15,550.0 14.9
13 Total 10 14,764.7 -3.2
14 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 31 14,444.0 70.3
15 Toyota Motor 6 14,055.8 16.0
16 American International Group 23 14,048.0 34.1
17 China National Petroleum 24 13,265.3 2.4
18 Petronas 121 12,862.8 11.2
19 Petrobras 65 12,826.0 24.0
20 Microsoft 139 12,599.0 2.8
21 Altria Group 71 12,022.0 15.2
22 Royal Bank of Scotland 54 11,762.2 17.6
23 ENI 26 11,564.1 5.9
24 Wal-Mart Stores 1 11,284.0 0.5
25 Johnson & Johnson 112 11,053.0 6.2
26 Berkshire Hathaway 33 11,015.0 29.2
27 BHP Billiton 205 10,450.0 63.3
28 GlaxoSmithKline 147 9,915.0 13.3
29 UBS 27 9,776.6 -13.2
30 ING Group 13 9,650.8 7.7
31 Goldman Sachs Group 72 9,537.0 69.5
32 Santander Central Hispano Group 75 9,530.3 23.3
33 International Business Machines 42 9,492.0 19.6
34 BNP Paribas 25 9,169.0 26.1
35 Credit Suisse 47 9,034.8 92.5
36 Crédit Agricole 18 8,975.8 20.7
37 Allianz 19 8,808.9 61.9
38 Procter & Gamble 74 8,684.0 19.7
39 Wells Fargo 126 8,482.0 10.6
40 Barclays 83 8,410.0 34.2
41 Samsung Electronics 46 8,301.9 11.3
42 Telefónica 77 7,820.2 41.6
43 Wachovia Corp. 131 7,791.0 17.3
44 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group 118 7,532.2 10.6
45 Deutsche Bank 35 7,510.3 71.3
46 Merrill Lynch 70 7,499.0 46.6
47 Lukoil 110 7,484.0 16.2
48 Morgan Stanley 61 7,472.0 51.3
49 Rio Tinto Group 313 7,438.0 42.6
50 AT&T 86 7,356.0 53.7
From the July 23, 2007 issue
*Company emerged from bankruptcy, Feb. 1, 2006. Net income includes a large credit from bankruptcy reorganization.
How the Countries Stack Up
United States 162
Japan 67
France 38
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Biggest employers
Wal-Mart Stores 1,900,000
State Grid 1,504,000
China National Petroleum 1,086,966
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Top 5 in Asia
Toyota Motor 204,746.4
Sinopec 131,636.0
China National Petroleum 110,520.2
State Grid 107,185.5
Honda Motor 94,790.5
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