Fortune 500

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Fortune 500

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An annual list of the 500 largest industrial corporations in the U.S., published by Fortune magazine. The corporations are ranked based on such metrics as revenues, profits, and market value.



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The Fortune 500 is a prestigious list of companies published every year by Fortune magazine.

The Fortune 500 list ranks US companies by gross revenues. Fortune 500 companies must be US companies and publicly held. The gross revenues used to rank the Fortune 500 companies is the company’s gross revenue for its previous fiscal year. The Fortune 500 was first published by Forbes magazine in 1955. There are other lists similar to the Fortune 500 list but the Fortune 500 list tends to be the most popular and revered. Fortune magazine also publishes the Fortune 100 and the Fortune 1000, which are based on the same ranking criteria as the Fortune 500. Other lists such as the Forbes Global 2000 (old Forbes 500) uses different criteria than the Fortune 500 to rank its top companies.


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I did not pay any attention to the fortune 500 because we were not in it ad I really wanted to be in it.

Jill wanted to get a job for Donald Trump at one of his fortune 500 companies, there was something that sparked her interest about working with more than 500 people, 400 hundred just isn’t nearly enough as far as she can see.

When accountants make a “Yo Company” joke: Your company’s so big, it sat on the Fortune 500 and now they call it the Flattened 500! There may be a reason why accountants are accountants and not comedians.


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Definitions for Fortune 500 are sourced/syndicated and enhanced from:

  • A Dictionary of Economics (Oxford Quick Reference)
  • Oxford Dictionary Of Accounting
  • Oxford Dictionary Of Business & Management

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