Fortune 100 Companies

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

1. General Motors $9.82billion
2. Exxon (now part of Exxon Mobil) at $5.66 billion
3. S. Steel at $3.25 billion
4. General Electric at $2.96 billion
5. Esmark at $2.5 billion
6. Chrysler at $2.07 billion
7. Armour at $2.06 billion
8. Gulf Oil at $1.71 billion
9. Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York, which became Mobil, and is now part of Exxon Mobil) at $1.70 billion
10. 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

1. Walmart
2. Exxon Mobil
3. Apple
4. Berkshire Hathaway
5. Amazon.com
6. UnitedHealth Group
7. McKesson
8. CVS Health
9. AT&T
10. AmerisourceBergen
11. Chevron
12. Ford Motor
13. General Motors
14. Costco Wholesale
15. Alphabet
16. Cardinal Health
17. Walgreens Boots Alliance
18. JPMorgan Chase
19. Verizon Communications
20. Kroger
21. General Electric
22. Fannie Mae
23. Phillips 66
24. Valero Energy
25. Bank of America
26. Microsoft
27. Home Depot
28. Boeing
29. Wells Fargo
30. Citigroup
31. Marathon Petroleum
32. Comcas
33. Anthem
34. Dell Technologies
35. DuPont de Nemours
36. State Farm Insurance
37. Johnson & Johnson
38. IBM
39. Target
40. Freddie Mac
41. United Parcel Service
42. Lowe’s
43. Intel
44. MetLife
45. Procter & Gamble
46. United Technologies
47. FedEx
48. PepsiCo
49. Archer Daniels Midland
50. Prudential Financial
51. Centene
52. Albertsons
53. Walt Disney
54. Sysco
55. HP
56. Humana
57. Facebook
58. Caterpillar
59. Energy Transfer
60. Lockheed Martin
61. Pfizer
62. Goldman Sachs Group
63. Morgan Stanley
64. Cisco Systems
65. Cigna
66. AIG
67. HCA Healthcare
68. American Airlines Group
69. Delta Air Lines
70. Charter Communications
71. New York Life Insurance
72. American Express
73. Nationwide
74. Best Buy
75. Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
76. Merck
77. Honeywell International
78. United Continental Holdings
79. TIAA
80. Tyson Foods
81. Oracle
82. Allstate
83. World Fuel Services
84. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
85. TJX
86. ConocoPhillips
87. Deere
88. Tech Data
89. Enterprise Products Partners
90. Nike
91. Publix Super Markets
92. General Dynamics
93. Exelon
94. Plains GP Holdings
95. 3M
96. AbbVie
97. CHS
98. Capital One Financial
99. Progressive
100. Coca-Cola