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Fortune 100 Companies

Fortune magazine compiles a list of the biggest American companies by revenue. How many of the top 100 can you name?
List published in May 2023
Only includes publicly traded companies and private companies for which the revenue is known
Revenue != profits
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Last updated: June 26, 2023
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Sector
Company
Retail
Wal-Mart
Retail / tech
Amazon
Energy
Exxon Mobil
Tech
Apple
Health care
UnitedHealth
Pharmacy
CVS
Conglomerate
Berkshire Hathaway
Tech
Alphabet (Google)
Health care
McKesson
Energy
Chevron
Pharma
AmerisourceBergen
Retail
Costco
Tech
Microsoft
Health care
Cardinal Health
Health care
Cigna
Energy
Marathon
Energy
Phillips66
Oil refinery
Valero Energy
Automotive
Ford
Retail
Home Depot
Automotive
General Motors
Health care
Elevance Health
Finance
J.P. Morgan Chase
Supermarket
Kroger
Health care
Centene
Telecom
Verizon
Pharmacy
Walgreens
Mortgage
Fannie Mae
Telecom
Comcast
Telecom
AT&T
Tech
Meta (Facebook)
Finance
Bank of America
Retail
Target
Tech
Dell
Food
Archer Daniels Midland
Finance
Citi
Logistics
UPS
Pharma
Pfizer
Retail
Lowe's
Consumer / pharma
Johnson & Johnson
Logistics
FedEx
Health care
Humana
Oil pipelines
Energy Transfer
Insurance
State Farm
Mortgage
Freddie Mac
Beverage
PepsiCo
Finance
Wells Fargo
Media
Disney
Energy
ConocoPhillips
Automotive
Tesla
Sector
Company
Consumer
Procter & Gamble
Conglomerate
General Electric
Supermarket
Albertsons
Insurance
MetLife
Finance
Goldman Sachs
Food
Sysco
Defensive
Raytheon
Aerospace
Boeing
Finance
StoneX Group
Defense
Lockheed Martin
Finance
Morgan Stanley
Semiconductor
Intel
Tech
Hewlett-Packard
IT Services
TD Synnex
Tech
IBM
Health care
HCA
Finance
Prudential
Industrial
Caterpillar
Pharma
Merck
Energy services
World Fuel Services
Insurance
New York Life
Oil pipelines
Enterprise Products Partners
Pharma
AbbVie
Oil pipelines
Plains GP
Chemical
Dow
Insurance
AIG
Payments
American Express
Supermarket
Publix
Telecom
Charter Communications
Food
Tyson Foods
Agriculture
Deere
Tech
Cisco
Insurance
Nationwide
Insurance
Allstate
Airline
Delta Air Lines
Insurance
Liberty Mutual
Retail
TJ Maxx
Insurance
Progressive
Airline
American Airlines
Health
CHS
Food
Performance Food Group
Oil refinery
PBF Energy
Sportswear
Nike
Retail
Best Buy
Pharma
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Airline
United Airlines
Lab equipment
Thermo Fisher
Semiconductor
Qualcomm
Pharma
Abbott Laboratories
Beverage
Coca-Cola
+13
Level 82
May 14, 2013
You could almost rename this quiz "Shareholders in the United States government," though since the decision that allowed foreign companies to funnel unlimited amounts of money into the system as well it's not fair to restrict that quiz to American companies only.
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Level 37
May 14, 2013
every person and corporation that pays taxes is a shareholder in the US government.
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Level ∞
May 14, 2013
At the risk of triggering a political argument, I think this attitude symbolizes a lot of what's wrong with American discourse today. In my opinion, money is a not a proxy for citizenship.
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Level 37
May 15, 2013
true, quizmaster. I was just pointing out that corporations "funneling money into the system" doesn't mean they own the government, and everyone who pays taxes has a considerable personal stake in its direction. But of course all citizens can be called 'shareholders' irrespective of financial involvement.
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Level 65
Jun 20, 2013
As long as we as a nation continue to limit the definition of "shareholders" to citizens only.
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Level 82
Jun 21, 2014
Okay milk, but most of us don't get to sit on the board of trustees or have any meaningful input in the direction the country takes.
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Level 45
Jul 25, 2023
Hmmmm I wonder why we vote every 2-4 years on who gets to run the "company"
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Level 72
Jul 25, 2023
...out of a selection of 2 options the "company" has pre-approved. Because that's meaningful input right there.
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Level 84
Jun 25, 2014
Consider naming this "Public companies". None of the largest private companies are on this list (Cargill, Koch, etc.)
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Level ∞
Jun 11, 2016
Added a caveat
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Level 37
Aug 26, 2014
It's interesting how food is so underrepresented on this list. It's one of the few things people will buy every week regardless of the economy.
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Level 75
Aug 26, 2014
Some of them are private companies and do not appear on this list (Cargill, for one, as someone already mentioned), others are foreign-owned, and many are just smaller companies whose sales don't match the conglomerates. But I think the bottom line is that we Americans sometimes just don't appreciate how cheap our food really is.
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Level 69
Mar 30, 2019
That's because all the food companies in the world are owned by Nestlé! Seriously, they are $100B ahead of their closest competitor, Pepsi (which appears on this list at #45), which owns a remarkable number of food brands. Coming in at #3 worldwide is Coke (also on this list), which mostly concentrates on beverages; #4 is Kraft, dwarfed by Nestlé which is 2.5x bigger. After that, the list of top 10 food companies in the world is rounded out with increasingly smaller companies – half of the full list being European, and #10 being literally 1/10th the size of Nestlé. So yes, food companies are well-represented among the richest in the world – they're just suuuuuper conglomerated, and not mostly American.
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Level 77
Jul 5, 2016
I think about half of those are companies I never heard about as a European. From the half I'd heard about I got half.
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Level 82
May 31, 2018
There are quite a few of these that most Americans have never heard of, either. A lot of these health, energy, pharma and finance companies rake in billions very quietly, which is how the majority of them want it.
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Level 75
Jul 6, 2018
Yes, also some of them are conglomerates which have taken over companies whose names we might have recognized, such as Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway which owns such companies as Fruit of the Loom and Dairy Queen. Others are companies whose names have changed slightly since forced breakups - there is a JP Morgan, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley etc. I also didn't realize Conoco/Phillips was different from Phillips66.
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Level ∞
Jun 1, 2020
A lot of these companies (like health companies) aren't particularly profitable. If you're looking for windfall profits, you shouldn't look at the Fortune 500, which is a list of companies with the highest revenue.
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Level 92
Jul 15, 2016
Consider accepting FNMA? I know FHLMC abandoned the acronym in favor of the common name, because theirs didn't make sense, but Fannie Mae still does.
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Level 27
Jan 1, 2017
you should add more time :(

i knew them all but ran out of time(89/100, beats 98.3% of test takers, average is 21)

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Level 66
Feb 17, 2017
+1 Could not type fast enough
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Level 72
Jun 8, 2018
Nope, it could do with a bit more time.
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Level 72
Jun 8, 2018
I thought Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac went under. I forgot they got bailed out by the US Gov.
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Level 77
Jun 9, 2018
Guessed both Wahlgreens and Wallgreens and still didn't get it.
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Level 83
Jun 10, 2018
Should Spectrum be acceptable for Charter comm now? That's the new company name, even if the stock market registry isn't changed.
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Level 73
Jun 12, 2018
Publix is not a public company (#88 currently). Same for #100, USAA. Contradicts the quiz instructions.
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Level ∞
Jun 13, 2018
It looks like you're right. I changed the caveats slightly.
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Level 44
Jun 15, 2018
Thanks so much for this quiz and for updating this June!
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Level 57
Jul 6, 2018
Does this list counts ONLY the highest revenue within US? How can company like mcdonalds is not in here??
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Level 75
Jul 6, 2018
In 2017 McDonald's was #131 on the list - enough to make the Fortune 500 list, but not the Fortune 100. A fast food restaurant doesn't have near the revenue of a major oil company or banking institution.
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Level 57
Jul 6, 2018
Just checked on their reported revenue but still finds it unbelievable....just looking at food companies, companies like archer daniels (which i never heard of before) actually made double the revenue of mcdonalds in total. The Mac being the sole symbol of american globalism with almost 40 thousands location worldwide actually made that little. Shouldn't retail business generally makes more money than wholesale/distributor????
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Level 75
Jun 12, 2020
When we were row-crop farming we sold most of our grain to ADM or Cargill because they owned the grain elevators in our area. As farmers we always complained that the middle men and bankers made all the money. A grocery store manager told me that his store operated on a one to two percent profit margin. Look at who is always building new, expensive buildings - banks.
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Level 65
Jul 6, 2018
Can someone please explain how Amazon is only #8, and Disney is only #55? I'm genuinely curious how the companies which produced the richest man on Earth and control nearly the entire media, respectively, aren't higher up.
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Level 58
Jul 6, 2018
There should just be one big company
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Level ∞
Jun 1, 2020
One day there will. It will be called the Communist Party of China.

Kidding... sorta.

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Level 64
Jul 7, 2018
I think there should be a little more time allowed.
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Level ∞
Jun 1, 2020
Added more time.
+1
Level 61
Nov 6, 2018
Please allow Mobil for Exxon Mobil. That's what I put, and I was confused about why it wasn't there.
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Level 82
Jun 2, 2020
Just a small correction: should be "AbbVie" rather than "AbbieVie"
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Level ∞
Jun 2, 2020
Fixed, thanks.
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Level 51
Jun 13, 2020
The fact that "health care" is even a category here is sickening.
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Level 80
Jun 14, 2020
The answer for number 58 is wrong. Only "HP" should be accepted and displayed, not "Hewlett Packard", they are no longer the same company. The old Hewlett Packard company split into two in 2015. One became HP (the one at position 58) and the other became Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HP is not permitted to use the "Hewlett Packard" branding so it shouldn't really be an answer here. If you check the Fortune 100 source, you will see that it is listed as HP. Also Hewlett Packard Enterprise is at position 109 on the Fortune 500.
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Level 68
Jun 14, 2020
The fact that a number of the top money makers are health care related says it all about America and their for profit health care system. Horrible.
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Level 75
Jun 15, 2020
What's the difference between "Defensive" (Raytheon) and "Defense" (others e.g. Northrup Grumman)?
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Level 65
Jun 15, 2020
Can "Grumman" be accepted?
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Level 92
Jul 17, 2020
FCStone changed its name to StoneX, consider accepting?
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Level 72
Nov 27, 2022
Interesting quiz. A lot I have never heard of, albeit I may know the trading names of the companies or their subsidiaries, and a few I have heard of but would never have thought of. I think I managed to name every large US Market Cap company NOT on the list. Still, better than average, so happy enough.
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Level 21
Jun 27, 2023
Hiii!
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Level 44
Jul 27, 2023
Hello and thanks for the quiz. Will you accept Procter and Gamble?
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Level 88
Aug 18, 2023
It's Thermo Fisher, not Fischer.
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Level ∞
Aug 18, 2023
Fixed