Wal-Mart Tops Fortune 500 List, Again
Big-box retailer is followed by trio of oil companies.
| Posted Thursday, May 5, 2011, at 1:15 PM
Wal-Mart topped Fortune magazine’s latest list of the highest-grossing U.S. companies, the second year in a row that the retailer took the Fortune 500’s top spot and the eighth time in the past decade.
A trio of oil giants came next. Exxon Mobil and Chevron ranked no. 2 and no. 3, respectively, the same spots they held in the list’s previous edition. ConocoPhillips jumped up two spots to no. 4.
Fannie Mae rounded out the top five, jumping a whopping 76 places from last year’s list. Freddie Mac also climbed in the rankings, moving up 34 spots to 20th.
The top 20:
1. Wal-Mart
2. Exxon Mobil
3. Chevron
4. ConocoPhillips
5. Fannie Mae
6. General Electric
7. Berkshire Hathaway
8. General Motors
9. Bank of America
10. Ford
11. Hewlett-Packard
12. AT&T
13. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
14. Citigroup
15. McKesson
16. Verizon
17. American International Group
18. International Business Machines
19. Cardinal Health
20. Freddie Mac
