Large U.S. companies hold billions of dollars in cash and cash-equivalents on their balance sheets. The largest of these 83 companies hold over $1.46 Trillion off-shore beyond the reach of the U.S. government according to a report by Bloomberg in March this year. Companies are hoarding such huge piles of cash overseas since they do …
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The Pharmaceutical Executive magazine published its annual ranking of the Top 50 Pharma Companies Worldwide based on sales earlier this month. New York -based Pfizer(PFE) was topped the list with a sales of over $47.4 billion in 2012. The Top 50 Global Pharma Companies are listed in the tables below: Click to enlarge Source: Pharmaceutical Executive Here …
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Last week the Fortune magazine published its Fortune 500 list of companies for this year. The world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores(WMT) topped the ranking with a revenue of over $469.0 billion last year. The next three spots were taken by oil companies – Exxon Mobil(XOM), Chevron (CVX) and Philips 66 (PSX). The following table shows …
Some multinational firms’ revenue are huge compared to the GDP of their home economies. For example, during the tech boom of the 1990s Nokia dominated Finland’s economy. The following chart illustrates this phenomenon using a few examples: Click to enlarge Source: Shell, Glencore, and Other Multinationals Dominate Their Home Economies, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
The largest U.S. companies from the Fortune Global 500 list for last year are listed below. These firms were ranked based on their revenues: Source: Fortune 500, Fortune Of the 500 firms in the list, 132 are from the U.S. Exxon Mobil(XOM) took the top rank followed by Walmart Stores(WMT), Chevron(CVX), ConocoPhillips (COP) and …
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