The 10 Most Profitable Chinese Companies

The ten most profitable publicly-listed Chinese companies that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below. [TABLE=499] PetroChina(PTR) tops the list with a profit of $16.8B. PetroChina’s profit is comparable to  Brazilian oil company Petrobras’ (PBR) profit of $16.63B. The list above is heavily concentrated with banks taking six of the …

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The 10 Most Profitable Brazilian Companies

The ten most profitable publicly-listed companies in Brazil that made it to the Forbes Global 2000 list for this year are listed below. Redecard, the credit card network services firm and a component of the Bovespa Index,  is currently not traded on the US markets. Redecard plans to list on the US markets next year. …

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The Five Best and Worst Performing Chinese ADRs YTD

The Shanghai SE Composite Index is down 17.71% Year-To-Date(YTD) and is flirting with bear the market territory. While many of the Chinese investors are afraid of the market now some see this plunge as a good time to enter the market. The optimists reason that it is not worth keeping money in banks due to …

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The 57 Most Profitable German Companies

The most profitable publicly-listed companies in Germany that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for this year are listed below: [TABLE=497] Source: Forbes Electric and natural gas utility E.ON (OTC: EONGY) topped the list with profits of $12.05 B. Currently E.ON ADR has a 5.80% dividend yield. The second and third most profitable companies …

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