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The Forbes Global 2000 - is an annual ranking of the top 2000 corporations in the world by Forbes magazine. The ranking is based on a mix of four metrics: Sales, Profit, Assets and Market value. The list is published since 2003.

The Forbes Global 2000 is a useful indicator of which are the leading companies in the world, but it is only an interpretation. The results are not definitive; any change to the criteria would produce a different list.

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As the list is published early in the calendar year, Forbes has to use out of date information for the many non U.S companies which have year ends early in the calendar year, including Japanese companies, which all have 31 March year ends. No adjustments are made to reflect different accounting practices in different countries, which leads to some major anomalies. For example Vodafone is ranked 377 in the 2005 list due to losses created by huge writedowns of purchased goodwill, but if amortisation of purchased goodwill were not charged against statutory profits in the UK, it would be in the top 20. It should also be noted that wholly state-owned corporations are excluded because no market valuation exists and in some cases accounts are not publicly available either. Some of these state companies would rank highly if they were eligible, for example the national oil companies of some of the OPEC countries.

Listed below are the top 100 companies featured on the 2007 list.

Rank Company Headquarters Industry Revenue
(billion $)		 Profits
(billion $)		 Assets
(billion $)		 Market Value
(billion $)
1 Citigroup USA Banking 146.56 21.54 1,884.32 247.42
2 Bank of America USA Banking 116.57 21.13 1,459.74 226.61
3 HSBC UK Banking 121.51 16.63 1,860.76 202.29
4 General Electric USA Conglomerate 163.39 20.83 697.24 358.98
5 JPMorgan Chase & Co. USA Banking 99.30 14.44 1,351.52 170.97
6 American International Group USA Insurance 113.19 14.01 979.41 174.47
7 ExxonMobil USA Oil and gas 335.09 39.50 223.95 410.65
8 Royal Dutch Shell Netherlands Oil and gas 318.85 25.44 232.31 208.25
9 UBS Switzerland Diversified Financials 105.59 9.78 1,776.89 116.84
10 ING Group Netherlands Diversified Financials 153.44 9.65 1,615.05 93.99
11 BP UK Oil and gas 265.91 22.29 217.60 198.14
12 Toyota Japan Automotive 179.02 11.68 243.60 217.69
13 Royal Bank of Scotland UK Banking 77.41 12.51 1,705.35 124.13
14 BNP Paribas France Banking 89.16 9.64 1,898.19 97.03
15 Allianz Germany Insurance 125.33 8.81 1,380.88 87.22
16 Berkshire Hathaway USA Diversified Financials 98.54 11.02 248.44 163.79
17 Wal-Mart USA Retailing 348.65 11.29 151.19 201.36
18 Barclays UK Banking 67.71 8.95 1,949.17 94.79
19 Chevron USA Oil and gas 195.34 17.14 132.63 149.37
20 Total S.A. France Oil and gas 175.05 15.53 138.82 152.62
21 HBOS UK Banking 84.28 7.59 1,156.61 79.83
22 ConocoPhillips USA Oil and gas 167.58 15.55 164.78 107.39
23 AXA France Insurance 98.85 6.38 666.47 87.64
24 Société Générale France Banking 84.47 6.55 1,259.32 77.62
25 Goldman Sachs USA Diversified Financials 69.35 9.54 838.20 83.31
25 Morgan Stanley USA Diversified Financials 76.55 7.47 1,120.65 79.76
27 Banco Santander Central Hispano Spain Banking 62.34 7.37 945.86 115.75
27 Deutsche Bank Germany Diversified Financials 95.50 7.45 1,485.58 65.15
29 AT&T USA Telecommunications 63.06 7.36 270.63 229.78
30 Électricité de France France Utilities 77.75 7.39 233.40 133.37
31 Credit Suisse Switzerland Diversified Financials 65.64 9.05 1,029.22 74.55
32 Merrill Lynch USA Diversified Financials 68.62 7.50 841.30 73.78
33 Procter & Gamble USA Consumer goods 73.60 9.67 137.30 200.34
34 Wells Fargo USA Banking 47.98 8.48 482.00 117.19
35 Wachovia USA Banking 46.81 7.79 707.12 105.42
36 Eni Italy Oil and gas 113.59 12.16 96.91 122.48
37 Fortis Netherlands Diversified Financials 121.19 5.46 1,020.98 55.45
38 Verizon Communications USA Telecommunications 88.14 6.24 188.80 109.19
39 Altria Group USA Tobacco 70.32 12.02 104.27 176.64
40 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Japan Banking 35.01 6.56 1,585.77 124.55
41 Petrochina PRC Oil and gas 68.43 16.53 96.42 208.76
42 IBM USA Computer hardware, Computer software 91.42 9.49 103.23 139.92
43 Gazprom Russia Oil and gas 48.13 10.82 151.18 216.14
44 ABN AMRO Netherlands Banking 65.59 6.22 1,302.19 64.92
45 Crédit Agricole France Banking 77.66 4.60 1,246.97 64.52
46 Telefónica Spain Telecommunications 69.79 8.22 132.30 104.95
47 E.ON Germany Utilities 80.53 6.34 167.11 86.32
48 Pfizer USA Health Care 48.37 19.34 108.59 179.97
49 DaimlerChrysler Germany Automotive 199.99 4.26 235.11 68.78
50 Petrobras Brazil Oil and gas 74.12 12.14 95.61 99.29
51 Nestlé Switzerland Food processing 80.70 7.54 81.45 142.65
52 Lloyds TSB UK Banking 57.33 5.49 672.40 63.43
53 ICBC PRC Banking 31.98 4.65 800.04 176.03
54 BBVA Spain Banking 37.89 5.94 536.05 82.55
55. Hewlett-Packard USA Computer hardware 94.08 6.52 81.31 106.27
56 Deutsche Telekom Germany Telecommunications 80.93 4.23 159.90 78.08
57 Fannie Mae USA Diversified Financials 51.83 4.98 1,020.93 55.34
58 NTT Japan Telecommunications 91.41 4.24 152.65 73.26
59 Mizuho Financial Japan Banking 29.03 5.53 1,269.60 81.31
60 Johnson & Johnson USA Health care 53.32 11.05 70.56 182.12
60 Siemens AG Germany Conglomerate 110.82 3.85 109.12 93.93
62 MetLife USA Insurance 48.40 6.29 527.72 48.02
63 Samsung Electronics South Korea Consumer electronics. Telecommunications 79.50 7.53 72.90 88.69
64 Aviva UK Insurance 87.42 4.33 555.18 41.14
65 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Japan Banking 31.02 5.85 901.71 73.38
66 Microsoft USA Computer software 46.06 11.91 66.37 275.85
67 France Télécom France Telecommunications 64.86 5.19 125.01 70.62
68 Time Warner USA Media 44.22 6.53 131.67 77.99
69 China Construction Bank PRC Banking 23.18 5.84 568.21 126.55
70 Zurich Financial Services Switzerland Insurance 66.75 4.65 351.19 41.32
71. Sinopec PRC Oil and gas 99.03 5.07 65.83 93.57
72. Mittal Steel Netherlands Steel 58.87 5.23 112.17 70.46
73. Honda Motor Japan Automotive 84.32 5.08 89.64 68.03
74. Sanofi-Aventis France Health care 37.43 5.28 102.59 115.24
75. Dexia Belgium Banking 95.78 3.56 745.42 33.80
76. RWE Germany Public utilities 56.56 5.08 118.52 57.28
77. Royal Bank of Canada Canada Banking 32.13 4.21 477.43 58.83
78. Assicurazioni Generali Italy Insurance 90.90 2.27 398.13 54.50
79. Home Depot USA Retail 90.84 5.76 52.26 80.80
80. Novartis Switzerland Health care 37.01 7.37 64.16 130.47
81. Nissan Japan Automotive 80.23 4.41 96.32 47.68
82. Bank of China PRC Banking 23.10 3.41 585.55 143.80
83. Lehman Brothers USA Diversified Financials 46.71 3.96 503.55 39.53
84. KBC Group Belgium Banking 34.22 4.53 428.49 42.35
85. GlaxoSmithKline UK Health care 45.45 10.55 45.85 161.20
86. Hoffmann-La Roche Switzerland Health care 34.46 6.46 59.41 153.55
87. UniCredit Italy Banking 21.50 2.92 922.79 96.24
88. Prudential Financial USA Insurance 32.49 3.43 446.90 43.59
89. China Mobile PRC Telecommunications 29.79 6.56 51.35 185.31
90. National Australia Bank Australia Banking 28.20 3.28 360.56 51.79
91. Manulife Financial Canada Insurance 28.91 3.41 328.76 51.74
92. Munich Re Germany Insurance 55.96 3.16 243.03 36.27
92. Statoil Norway Oil and gas 67.86 6.51 50.55 54.59
94. Deutsche Post Germany Postal Service, Air Courier 79.87 2.53 202.39 38.20
95. Telecom Italia Italy Telecommunications 35.28 3.80 110.19 58.64
96. Unilever United Kingdom, Netherlands Consumer goods 49.71 6.29 47.16 79.32
97. BHP Billiton Australia Mining 31.85 10.35 46.83 122.29
98. AEGON Netherlands Insurance 47.16 3.50 414.61 31.46
99. Allstate USA Insurance 35.80 4.99 157.55 37.19
100. BASF Germany Chemical industry 69.41 4.24 58.93 50.91

The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/18/biz_07forbes2000_The-Global-2000_Rank.html.

  1. Flag of the United States Citigroup
  2. Flag of the United States General Electric
  3. Flag of the United States Bank of America
  4. Flag of the United States American International Group
  5. Flag of the United Kingdom HSBC Group
  6. Flag of the United States ExxonMobil
  7. Flag of the Netherlands Royal Dutch/Shell
  8. Flag of the United Kingdom BP
  9. Flag of the United States JPMorgan Chase
  10. Flag of Switzerland UBS

The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/18/06f2000_The-Forbes-2000_Rank.html.

Rank Company Country Category Sales Profits Assets Market Value
1 Citigroup United States Banking 108.28 17.05 1,4.10 247.66
2 General Electric United States Conglomerates 152.36 16.59 750.33 372.14
3 American International Group United States Insurance 95.04 10.91 776.42 173.99
4 Bank of America United States Banking 65.45 14.14 1,110.46 188.77
5 HSBC United Kingdom Banking 62.97 9.52 1,031.29 186.74
6 ExxonMobil United States Oil & gas operations 263.99 25.33 195.26 405.25
7 Royal Dutch/Shell UK/Netherlands Oil & gas operations 265.19 18.54 193.83 221.49
8 BP United Kingdom Oil & gas operations 285.06 15.73 191.11 231.88
9 ING Group Netherlands Diversified financials 92.01 8.10 1,175.16 68.04
10 Toyota Motor Japan Consumer durables 165.68 11.13 211.15 140.89

The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/03/30/05f2000land.html.

  1. Flag of the United States Citigroup
  2. Flag of the United States General Electric
  3. Flag of the United States American International Group
  4. Flag of the United States ExxonMobil
  5. Flag of the United Kingdom BP
  6. Flag of the United States Bank of America
  7. Flag of the United Kingdom HSBC Group
  8. Flag of Japan Toyota Motor
  9. Flag of the United States Fannie Mae
  10. Flag of the United States Wal-Mart Stores

The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/2004/03/24/04f2000land.html.

  1. Flag of the United States Citigroup
  2. Flag of the United States General Electric
  3. Flag of the United States American International Group
  4. Flag of the United States ExxonMobil
  5. Flag of the United States Bank of America
  6. Flag of the Netherlands Royal Dutch Shell
  7. Flag of the United Kingdom BP
  8. Flag of the United States Fannie Mae
  9. Flag of the United Kingdom HSBC Group
  10. Flag of Japan Toyota Motor

The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/2003/07/02/internationaland.html.

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