The Fortune Global 500 of Year 2016

Fortune magazine recently published its famous Fortune Global 500 list. The top 10 companies from the ranking for 2016 are shown in the table below:

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Rank	Company	Country	Revenue in USD
1	Walmart	United States	$482.1 billion
2	State Grid	China	$329.6 billion
3	China National Petroleum	China	$299.3 billion
4	Sinopec	China	$294.3 billion
5	Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands & UK	$272.2 billion
6	Exxon Mobil	United States	$246.2 billion
7	Volkswagen	Germany	$236.6 billion
8	Toyota Motor	Japan	$236.59 billion
9	Apple	United States	$233.7 billion
10	BP	United Kingdom	$225.98 billion

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Source: Fortune

US retailer Walmart(WMT) is the world’s largest firm with a revenue of over $482 billion. The second spot went to Chinese utility State Grid. The importance of oil globally is shown by the presence of five petroleum firms in the top 10 above.

124 of the 500 firms are US-based firms.

The complete list of the Fortune Global 500 firms for 2016 can be found here.

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