Apple Moves Up to 56th in Fortune 500 Rankings
With 2009 profits of $5.7 billion, Apple also ranked 26th overall by that metric. And in the Computers and Office Equipment category, Apple ranked third behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell according to revenue. Apple also scored highly in several other categories, including easily taking the top spot in shareholder returns over the past five years with an average return of 45.6%.
Wal-Mart topped this year's list, displacing Exxon Mobil at the head of the pack. One of those two companies has led the rankings every year since Exxon Mobil grabbed the top spot from General Motors in 2001.
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28 months ago
Fortune today released its 2010 list of Fortune 500 companies, ranking the world's largest companies by revenues.
Americas largest companies surely?
28 months ago
The turnaround started in 1997 .. Steve Jobs returns
Then Mac OS X, iTunes, and iPod in 2001
Continued Mac OS X refinements and releases
iPhone in 2007
iPad in 2010
.....
the rest remains to be seen :apple:
Then Mac OS X, iTunes, and iPod in 2001
Continued Mac OS X refinements and releases
iPhone in 2007
iPad in 2010
.....
the rest remains to be seen :apple:
28 months ago
Americas largest companies surely?
Peterkro is right. The Fortune 500 only includes American companies.http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/full_list/
28 months ago
28 months ago
This is because of the market backlash at all the evil Apple is doing -- oh wait, this is good news....
28 months ago
Wal-Mart is first.....................
no surprise there:rolleyes:
but in california, there is hardly any Wal-Mart...
most of them are in the Midwest.
no surprise there:rolleyes:
but in california, there is hardly any Wal-Mart...
most of them are in the Midwest.
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