The fortune 500 list has long been the most famous and authoritative list of the world's largest companies, and is known as the "ultimate list", which is published annually by fortune magazine. Last year, the company's total operating income, net profit and entry threshold fell by about 11%. This year, all three have picked up slightly, with the total operating income of 500 companies rising slightly to $27.7 trillion. Net profit rose about 3 per cent to $1.52 trillion; The threshold increased by 3% to $21.6 billion.
Wal-mart ranked first for the fourth year in a row, with revenue of $4,858.7 billion in 2016, up 0.8 percent year on year. The other two in the top three are Chinese companies -- state grid and sinopec. Petrochina and Toyota ranked fourth and fifth. The only new entrant is warren buffett's insurance and investment group, Berkshire hathaway. Nearly three-quarters of Berkshire's revenues now come from business rather than financial investment, and progress has been made in getting rid of Mr Buffett's aura.
The top five in the profit list were the top five, with the rest being China's commercial Banks, icbc, CCB, agricultural bank and bank of China. But for them, it seems that profits and scale are hard to come by, with all five companies, including apple, reporting significant declines in revenue. Industrial and commercial bank of China ranked first in total assets. The highest ranking Chinese companies on ROE are huawei, midea, tencent, geely and vanke. Among them, midea was the first Chinese appliance company to enter fortune 500 last year, and this year is still the only one listed in this industry. Fang hongbo, chairman and President of the company, was named the "Chinese businessman of the year" by fortune earlier this year.
In addition, the largest number of employees were wal-mart and petrochina, with 2.3 million and 1.15 million employees respectively. The fastest of the top 50 companies last year was amazon, up 18 places. The fastest in all listed companies last year jumped three out of ten companies come from mainland China, they are: China minmetals rose (203), hna Evergrande group rose (183) and China rose (158).
The number of Chinese companies on the list grew for the 14th consecutive year, reaching 115 this year. Mainland China (including Hong Kong, excluding Taiwan) is 109 companies. 10 Chinese companies on the list for the first time, they are: business insurance group, constant force group, golden sunshine control, alibaba, country garden, tencent, Su Ningyun, xiamen c&d group, international holding group, and xinjiang. The biggest names on the list are trade (3), followed by alibaba and tencent, two companies from Internet services and retail. Country garden is the only real estate company on the list. (to get a Chinese listed company DengZi list, please reply in Chinese "wealth" WeChat backstage keywords: "Chinese companies", "the most profitable company", "loss of the company", "industry")
From other countries on the list, there are 132 companies in the United States this year and 51 in Japan. Although China on a number of listed companies is far beyond the third-ranked Japanese, but in addition to the financial sector, the country's main body is 10 electronic and communications industry companies and 10 car manufacturing companies, from the innovation ability of advantage industry; As a comparison, China has 19 energy, oil refining, mining companies and 14 real estate, engineering and construction companies in addition to the financial sector. This year, however, it is worth mentioning that, with alibaba and tencent on the list, and jingdong group, which made the list for the first time last year, China and the us each account for half of the world's six largest Internet service companies. Three us companies are amazon, parent Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and Facebook, the new social media giant.
