FORBES GLOBAL 2000

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.

Contents

Exclusions and inconsistencies

2007 list

2006 list

2005 list

2004 list

2003 list

See also

External links

Exclusions and inconsistencies

As the list is published early in the calendar year, Forbes has to use out of date information for the many non U.S companies which have year ends early in the calendar year, including Japanese companies, which all have 31 March year ends.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.

2007 list

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	Insurance	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
19	Total	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

52 Lloyds TSB

53 Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

54 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

55 Hewlett-Packard

56 Deutsche Telekom

57 Fannie Mae

58 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

59 Mizuho Financial Group

60 Johnson & Johnson

61 Siemens AG

62 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

63 Samsung Electronics

64 Aviva

65 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group

66 Microsoft

67 France Telecom

68 Time Warner

69 China Construction Bank

70 Zurich Financial Services

71 Sinopec

72 Arcelor Mittal

73 Honda

74 Sanofi-Aventis

75 Dexia

76 RWE

77 Royal Bank of Canada

78 Assicurazioni Generali

79 Home Depot

80 Novartis

81 Nissan Motor

82 Bank of China

83 Lehman Brothers

84 KBC Group

85 GlaxoSmithKline

86 Roche Holding AG

87 UniCredit

88 Prudential Financial

89 China Mobile

90 National Australia Bank

91 Manulife Financial

92 Munich Re

93 Statoil

94 Deutsche Post

95 Telecom Italia

96 Unilever

97 BHP Billiton

98 Aegon

99 Allstate

100 BASF

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

2006 list

# Citigroup
# General Electric
# Bank of America
# American International Group
# HSBC Group
# ExxonMobil
# Royal Dutch/Shell
# BP
# JPMorgan Chase
# UBS
The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/18/06f2000_The-Forbes-2000_Rank.html.

2005 list

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.

2004 list

# Citigroup
# General Electric
# American International Group
# ExxonMobil
# BP
# Bank of America
# HSBC Group
# Toyota Motor
# Fannie Mae
# Wal-Mart Stores
The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/2004/03/24/04f2000land.html.

2003 list

# Citigroup
# General Electric
# American International Group
# ExxonMobil
# Bank of America
# Royal Dutch Shell
# BP
# Fannie Mae
# HSBC Group
# Toyota Motor
The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/2003/07/02/internationaland.html.

See also

★ Forbes 500

External links

★ The Forbes Global 2000 current list

★ The 2006 list of Global 2000

★ The 2005 list of Global 2000

★ The 2004 list of Global 2000

★ The 2003 list of Global 2000