Editor’s note: This article was first published in October 2013; its revenue and net profit figures appear to come from the Fortune Global 500 list published in 2013, which covers fiscal year 2012. Several company names have since changed, and the ranking order is long out of date.
This ranking shows which companies in the world have the highest revenue, along with their net profit.
The company with the highest net profit is Exxon Mobil, with $44.9 billion, followed by Apple with $41.7 billion, and in third place the Russian gas company Gazprom, with $38.1 billion.
*Figures in billions of dollars.
*Data based on the CNN Fortune study.
| Rank | Company | Revenue | Net profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Dutch Shell | 481.7 | 26.6 |
| 2 | Wal-Mart Stores | 469.2 | 17.0 |
| 3 | Exxon Mobil | 449.9 | 44.9 |
| 4 | Sinopec Group | 428.2 | 8.2 |
| 5 | China National Petroleum | 408.6 | 18.2 |
| 6 | BP | 388.3 | 11.6 |
| 7 | State Grid | 298.4 | 12.3 |
| 8 | Toyota Motor | 265.7 | 11.6 |
| 9 | Volkswagen | 247.6 | 27.9 |
| 10 | Total | 234.3 | 13.7 |
| 11 | Chevron | 233.9 | 26.2 |
| 12 | Glencore Xstrata | 214.4 | 1.0 |
| 13 | Japan Post Holdings | 190.9 | 6.8 |
| 14 | Samsung Electronics | 178.6 | 20.6 |
| 15 | E.ON | 169.8 | 2.8 |
| 16 | Phillips 66 | 169.6 | 4.1 |
| 17 | ENI | 167.9 | 10.0 |
| 18 | Berkshire Hathaway | 162.5 | 14.8 |
| 19 | Apple | 156.5 | 41.7 |
| 20 | AXA | 154.6 | 5.3 |
| 21 | Gazprom | 153.5 | 38.1 |
| 22 | General Motors | 152.3 | 6.2 |
| 23 | Daimler | 146.9 | 7.8 |
| 24 | General Electric | 146.9 | 13.6 |
| 25 | Petrobras | 144.1 | 11.0 |
| 26 | EXOR Group | 142.2 | 0.5 |
| 27 | Valero Energy | 138.3 | 2.1 |
| 28 | Ford Motor | 134.3 | 5.7 |
| 29 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China | 133.6 | 37.8 |
| 30 | Hon Hai Precision Industry | 132.1 | 3.2 |
| 31 | Allianz | 130.8 | 6.6 |
| 32 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone | 128.9 | 6.3 |
| 33 | ING Group | 128.3 | 4.2 |
| 34 | AT&T | 127.4 | 7.3 |
| 35 | Fannie Mae | 127.2 | 17.2 |
| 36 | Pemex | 125.2 | 0.2 |
| 37 | GDF Suez | 124.7 | 2.0 |
| 38 | PDVSA | 124.5 | 2.7 |
| 39 | Statoil | 124.4 | 11.8 |
| 40 | CVS Caremark | 123.1 | 3.9 |
| 41 | BNP Paribas | 123.0 | 8.4 |
| 42 | McKesson | 122.5 | 1.3 |
| 43 | Hewlett-Packard | 120.4 | -12.7 |
| 44 | JX Holdings | 119.5 | 1.9 |
| 45 | Honda Motor | 119.0 | 4.4 |
| 46 | Lukoil | 116.3 | 11.0 |
| 47 | Nissan Motor | 116.0 | 4.1 |
| 48 | Verizon Communications | 115.8 | 0.9 |
| 49 | Assicurazioni Generali | 113.8 | 0.1 |
| 50 | China Construction Bank | 113.4 | 30.6 |
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