Post on 15-Apr-2017
14 MIND BLOWING FA
CTS
ABOUT
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
➠ Largest U.S. companies ranked by gross revenues
➠ Both publicly traded & privately held companies
➠ Private companies need to fully disclose financials
➠ Handful of companies traded on foreign exchanges
DEFINITION
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
1. They account for 71.9% of total U.S. GDP
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
2. Annual Revenues of $12+ Trillion Dollars
That's more than the GDP of the UK, Germany, Russia, France, and India combined !
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
3. Profits of $950 Billion Dollars
X 950 !!
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
4. Total Market Value of $17 Trillion Dollars
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
5. 27 Million employees globally
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
6. 95% of CEOs expect their company to change more in the next 5 years than in the past 5 years.
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
7. 40 ‘Unicorns' born in the past 10 years.
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
Xiaomi ($46 Billion)Uber ($41 Billion) Airbnb ($20 Billion)
8. Recent unicorns include:
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
9. Walmart had more than $16 Billion in profits
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
10. Apple made $40 Billion in profits (#1 in profits)
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
11. Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest CEO at age 30.
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
12. Warren Buffett is the oldest at age 85.
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
13. GM & GE have made the Fortune 500 list every year since Fortune started publishing the list in 1955
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
14. Only 5% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
15. 38% have less than 11 characters in their company name
IBM
UPS
AIG
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
16. 36% have one word names
Chevron
Costco
Boeing
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
16. 27% have names that start with the letters A, C, or S
Apple
CVS
Sysco
Download the 2015 Fortune 500 list in a
Spreadsheet (.XLS) for free. Columns include:➠ Fortune Rank➠ Company Name➠ Ticker Symbol➠ Exchange➠ Industry (Fortune)➠ Management Team URLs (OrgChartCity team spent hours finding these links)
http://www.orgchartcity.com/products/2015-fortune-500-list