The Fortune 100 is the top 100 companies in the United States and it is the part of Fortune500 companies. Thus, this is the list of 500 largest United States public and privately held companies published by Fortune magazine. The ranking calculating based on total revenues for the company’s corresponding fiscal year. Further, fortune magazine prepare the list by ranking public and private companies that report annual revenue figures to a government agency. Fortune stared to listing the companies since 1955. However, fortune 500 changed in 1994 to include the companies from various sectors.
Since Fortune listed 500 top companies in 1995, General Motors was in the leading position for more than 3o years. General Motors had revenues of $9.82 billion to top list. The following companies were the top position in early.
Top 10 companies from 1995 Fortune 500 List
- General Motors $9.82billion
- Exxon (now part of Exxon Mobil) at $5.66 billion
- S. Steel at $3.25 billion
- General Electric at $2.96 billion
- Esmark at $2.5 billion
- Chrysler at $2.07 billion
- Armour at $2.06 billion
- Gulf Oil at $1.71 billion
- Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York, which became Mobil, and is now part of Exxon Mobil) at $1.70 billion
- DuPont at $1.69 billion
At very first early fortune 100 companies included only from specific sectors such as manufacturing, mining and energy sectors. These lead to left many top earning companies from the list. However Fortune published top 50 companies’ individual sector lists from banks, utilities, insurance, retailers and transportation.
Fortune included the services companies in 1994; it led to many new companies to join to fortune list. This change added many new companies to the fortune 100list and also dramatically increased the amount of annual revenue required to make the prestigious list. If any company want to join in the list in 1994 it should generate $10.9billion revenue. In 1994 it was 5.3billion revenue. Here are the top fortune 100 companies in 2019 list.
2019 Fortune 100 companies
- Walmart
- Exxon Mobil
- Apple
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Amazon.com
- UnitedHealth Group
- McKesson
- CVS Health
- AT&T
- AmerisourceBergen
- Chevron
- Ford Motor
- General Motors
- Costco Wholesale
- Alphabet
- Cardinal Health
- Walgreens Boots Alliance
- JPMorgan Chase
- Verizon Communications
- Kroger
- General Electric
- Fannie Mae
- Phillips 66
- Valero Energy
- Bank of America
- Microsoft
- Home Depot
- Boeing
- Wells Fargo
- Citigroup
- Marathon Petroleum
- Comcas
- Anthem
- Dell Technologies
- DuPont de Nemours
- State Farm Insurance
- Johnson & Johnson
- IBM
- Target
- Freddie Mac
- United Parcel Service
- Lowe’s
- Intel
- MetLife
- Procter & Gamble
- United Technologies
- FedEx
- PepsiCo
- Archer Daniels Midland
- Prudential Financial
- Centene
- Albertsons
- Walt Disney
- Sysco
- HP
- Humana
- Caterpillar
- Energy Transfer
- Lockheed Martin
- Pfizer
- Goldman Sachs Group
- Morgan Stanley
- Cisco Systems
- Cigna
- AIG
- HCA Healthcare
- American Airlines Group
- Delta Air Lines
- Charter Communications
- New York Life Insurance
- American Express
- Nationwide
- Best Buy
- Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
- Merck
- Honeywell International
- United Continental Holdings
- TIAA
- Tyson Foods
- Oracle
- Allstate
- World Fuel Services
- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
- TJX
- ConocoPhillips
- Deere
- Tech Data
- Enterprise Products Partners
- Nike
- Publix Super Markets
- General Dynamics
- Exelon
- Plains GP Holdings
- 3M
- AbbVie
- CHS
- Capital One Financial
- Progressive
- Coca-Cola
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