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The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune
Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is a International business magazine published by Time Inc. Fortune|Money Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life , Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner....
 magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 public corporation
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
s as measured by their gross revenue, although Fortune makes adjustments to the revenue for a number of companies, particularly to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect.






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The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune
Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is a International business magazine published by Time Inc. Fortune|Money Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life , Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner....
 magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 public corporation
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
s as measured by their gross revenue, although Fortune makes adjustments to the revenue for a number of companies, particularly to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly- and privately-held companies for which revenues are publicly available.

Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American Public company that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. It is the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the 2008 Fortune Global 500....
 was the largest company on the list in 2007 and 2008. Exxon Mobil was in second place.

Fortune 100 and Fortune 1000
Fortune 1000

Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune . The list is of the 1000 largest American companies, ranked on revenues alone....
 refer to lists of top firms ranked similarly.

See also

  • Fortune Global 500
    Fortune Global 500

    The Fortune Global 500 is a ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide as measured by revenue. The list is compiled and published annually by Fortune magazine....
  • Forbes Global 2000
    Forbes Global 2000

    The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world by Forbes magazine. The ranking is based on a mix of four metrics: Sales, Profit, Assets and Market value....
  • America's Most Admired Companies
  • List of companies by revenue
    List of companies by revenue

    This is a list of the world's largest public and private businesses by revenue. The list is limited to companies with annual revenues exceeding 40 billion United States dollars....
  • S&P 500
    S&P 500

    The S&P 500 is a market value-weighted index published since 1957 of the prices of 500 market capitalization common stocks actively traded in the United States....


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