Fortune 500

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Fortune 500 is an annual ranking by Fortune magazine that lists the 500 largest U.S. companies by total revenue.

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annual list
corporate ranking
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Fortune 500
surface form: Fortune magazine 500 largest U.S. corporations list
basedOn companies’ fiscal year revenue
category business rankings
lists of companies
countryOfScope United States of America
surface form: United States
dataSource companies’ audited financial statements
excludes U.S. companies not required to file financial statements
private companies that do not publish financial data
firstPublishedIn 1955
frequency annual
geographicRestriction companies incorporated in the United States
hasFormat online
print
hasInfluenceOn business school research
corporate reputation
economic policy discussions
executive compensation benchmarking
inception 1955
includes U.S.-incorporated subsidiaries of foreign companies
language English
metricUnit U.S. dollars
notableFor benchmarking corporate size in the United States
numberOfCompaniesRanked 500
ownerOfPublisher Fortune Media IP Limited
Time Inc.
surface form: Time Inc. (historical)
partOf Fortune magazine
surface form: Fortune rankings
publishedBy Fortune magazine
publisher Fortune
publisherType business magazine
rankingCriterion total revenue
relatedList Fortune 500 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Fortune 100

Fortune 1000
Fortune Global 500 list of largest global corporations by revenue
surface form: Global 500
sectorCoverage private companies that publish financial data
public companies
subjectOfRanking largest U.S. companies by revenue
typicalPublicationMonth spring
usedBy academics
business analysts
investors
media

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University of Texas at Austin hasAlumni Fortune 500
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DowDuPont isListedIn Fortune 500
Fortune 40 Under 40 list relatedTo Fortune 500
Fortune Global 2000 relatedTo Fortune 500
Wells Fargo memberOf Fortune 500
Cravath, Swaine & Moore clientele Fortune 500
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University of Illinois Research Park hasTypeOfTenant Fortune 500
this entity surface form: Fortune 500 companies
Archer Daniels Midland listedIn Fortune 500