The 10 Most Profitable Indian Companies

The 10 most profitable publicly-listed Indian companies that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below: [TABLE=504] Except IT outsourcing firm Infosys Technologies (INFY), none of the other companies trade on the US markets. The most profitable company in India is the state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp. which made$3.86B last …

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The 100 Most Profitable U.S. Companies

The 25 most profitable publicly-listed American companies that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below: [TABLE=502] The oil giant ExxonMobil(XOM) made the highest profits at over $19B on sales of $275B. The second and third spots were taken by software maker Microsoft(MSFT) and the world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores(WMT). Among …

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The 10 Most Profitable British Companies

The ten most profitable publicly-listed British companies that made it to the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below. [TABLE=500] All the firms noted above are also part of the FTSE 100 index. The oil giant BP plc (BP) is the most profitable British company. The current yield on the BP ADR is …

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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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