14 mind blowing facts on the fortune 500

14 MIND BLOWING FA

CTS

ABOUT

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


1. They account for 71.9% of total U.S. GDP


2. Annual Revenues of $12+ Trillion Dollars

That's more than the GDP of the UK, Germany, Russia, France, and India combined !


3. Profits of $950 Billion Dollars

X 950 !!


4. Total Market Value of $17 Trillion Dollars


5. 27 Million employees globally


6. 95% of CEOs expect their company to change more in the next 5 years than in the past 5 years.


7. 40 ‘Unicorns' born in the past 10 years.


Xiaomi ($46 Billion)Uber ($41 Billion) Airbnb ($20 Billion)

8. Recent unicorns include:


9. Walmart had more than $16 Billion in profits


10. Apple made $40 Billion in profits (#1 in profits)


11. Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest CEO at age 30.


12. Warren Buffett is the oldest at age 85.


13. GM & GE have made the Fortune 500 list every year since Fortune started publishing the list in 1955


14. Only 5% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women


15. 38% have less than 11 characters in their company name

IBM

UPS

AIG


16. 36% have one word names

Chevron

Costco

Boeing


16. 27% have names that start with the letters A, C, or S

Apple

CVS

Sysco

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