Forbes 500
The Forbes 500 was an annual listing of the top 500 American companies, produced by Forbes magazine.[1][2] The list was calculated by combining five factors: sales, profits, assets, market value, and employees.[3] The list was last issued in March 2003 (based on 2002 data for the companies); it is no longer calculated each year and has been replaced by the Forbes Global 2000, which includes non-U.S. companies but is calculated on a similar basis as the old Forbes 500 (although it does not include employees).
Quantifying the largest companies
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Various methods exist in determining the largest corporations. Forbes Magazine, for example, takes into consideration profit, revenue, market capitalization, and value of assets when ranking companies by size; the magnitude of any one of these factors alone may not necessarily be indicative of a firm's overall ranking.
The value of a firm's
Fortune 500 ranks companies by revenue. This method is heavily biased towards distributors such as Walmart, which may have a high volume of sales but may be operating on very thin profit margins.
Another method might be to look at the
See also
- Forbes Global 2000
- Fortune 500
- List of largest employers
- List of largest companies by revenue
- List of corporations by market capitalization
References
- ^ "Forbes 500". Investopedia. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
- ^ "Forbes 500". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
- ^ "The Forbes 500s". Forbes. March 28, 2003. Archived from the original on June 18, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2018.