if you thought SONY's losses were bad.....

[arsenicazure]

smallflyingtaco said:

arsenicazure said:
sigh.. here we go

The Fortune Global 500 is a ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide as measured by revenue. The list is compiled and published annually by Fortune magazine.


This is the top 10 as published in July 2008. It is based on the companies' fiscal year ended on or before 31 March 2008.[1]

1. Wal Mart - United States (retail)
2. ExxonMobil Corporation - United States (oil)
3. Royal Dutch Shell - Netherlands [2] (oil)
4. BP - United Kingdom (oil)
5. Toyota Motor - Japan (automobiles)
6. Chevron - United States (oil)
7. ING Group - Netherlands (banking)
8. Total - France (oil)
9. General Motors - United States (automobiles)
10. ConocoPhillips - United States (oil)

The top ten includes six oil companies, two automobile manufacturers, one retailer, and one banking corporation. The complete list is available online.

Now i dont see microsoft on this list.. So while microsoft is worth more (asset wise,than toyota), its barely 1/4th in terms of REVENUE (60 billion vs 262 billion USD)..2008 figure.

And if microsoft is so big n so profitable.. then why the hell did it lay off 5000 ppl in a phased manner?

Simple point is, all the japanese companies are bleeding, especially the electronic divisions.. but compared to the billions that panasonic and Hitachi has squandered.. SONY's loss of 1.5 billion doesnt look so bad. Especially since we all know how horrible the ps3 has been for them.

Horrible, out of date list.  You picked a time in the middle of last summer which is why it has all those oil companies.  Toyota is in the list at that time and probably had been bigger than MS since about 2006 but it is not today, it was not during the 90s and a lot of the first half of 2000.  It picked up in the later half of the 2000s as the Japanese economy started to pickup but it is back down to about 2/3 the size of MS today.

 

here is the 2009 list.. this list is limited to corporations based IN AMERICA so toyota,naturally, doesnt have a ranking:

 

 

FORTUNE 500

Fortune 1000

Current view: 1-100 101-200 201-300 301-400 401-500 501-600 601-700 701-800 801-900 901-1000

Rank	Company	Revenues ($ millions)	Profits ($ millions)
1	Exxon Mobil	442,851.0	45,220.0
2	Wal-Mart Stores	405,607.0	13,400.0
3	Chevron	263,159.0	23,931.0
4	ConocoPhillips	230,764.0	-16,998.0
5	General Electric	183,207.0	17,410.0
6	General Motors	148,979.0	-30,860.0
7	Ford Motor	146,277.0	-14,672.0
8	AT&T	124,028.0	12,867.0
9	Hewlett-Packard	118,364.0	8,329.0
10	Valero Energy	118,298.0	-1,131.0
11	Bank of America Corp.	113,106.0	4,008.0
12	Citigroup	112,372.0	-27,684.0
13	Berkshire Hathaway	107,786.0	4,994.0
14	International Business Machines	103,630.0	12,334.0
15	McKesson	101,703.0	990.0
16	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.	101,491.0	5,605.0
17	Verizon Communications	97,354.0	6,428.0
18	Cardinal Health	91,091.4	1,300.6
19	CVS Caremark	87,471.9	3,212.1
20	Procter & Gamble	83,503.0	12,075.0
21	UnitedHealth Group	81,186.0	2,977.0
22	Kroger	76,000.0	1,249.4
23	Marathon Oil	73,504.0	3,528.0
24	Costco Wholesale	72,483.0	1,282.7
25	Home Depot	71,288.0	2,260.0
26	AmerisourceBergen	70,593.5	250.6
27	Archer Daniels Midland	69,816.0	1,802.0
28	Target	64,948.0	2,214.0
29	Johnson & Johnson	63,747.0	12,949.0
30	Morgan Stanley	62,262.0	1,707.0
31	State Farm Insurance Cos.	61,343.4	-541.8
32	WellPoint	61,251.1	2,490.7
33	Dell	61,101.0	2,478.0
34	Boeing	60,909.0	2,672.0
35	Microsoft	60,420.0	17,681.0
36	Walgreen	59,034.0	2,157.0
37	United Technologies	58,681.0	4,689.0
38	Dow Chemical	57,514.0	579.0
39	MetLife	55,085.0	3,209.0
40	Goldman Sachs Group	53,579.0	2,322.0
41	Sunoco	51,652.0	776.0
41	Wells Fargo	51,652.0	2,655.0
43	United Parcel Service	51,486.0	3,003.0
44	Caterpillar	51,324.0	3,557.0
45	Medco Health Solutions	51,258.0	1,102.9
46	Pfizer	48,296.0	8,104.0
47	Lowe's	48,230.0	2,195.0
48	Time Warner	46,984.0	-13,402.0
49	Sears Holdings	46,770.0	53.0
50	Safeway	44,104.0	965.3
51	Supervalu	44,048.0	593.0
52	PepsiCo	43,251.0	5,142.0
53	Kraft Foods	42,867.0	2,901.0
54	Lockheed Martin	42,731.0	3,217.0
55	Hess	41,094.0	2,360.0
56	Best Buy	40,023.0	1,407.0
57	Cisco Systems	39,540.0	8,052.0
58	Johnson Controls	38,062.0	979.0
59	FedEx	37,953.0	1,125.0
60	Walt Disney	37,843.0	4,427.0
61	Intel	37,586.0	5,292.0
62	Sysco	37,522.1	1,106.2
63	Honeywell International	36,556.0	2,792.0
64	Sprint Nextel	35,635.0	-2,796.0
65	Enterprise GP Holdings	35,469.6	164.1
66	GMAC	35,445.0	1,868.0
67	Ingram Micro	34,362.2	-394.9
68	Comcast	34,256.0	2,547.0
69	Northrop Grumman	33,940.0	-1,262.0
70	News Corp.	32,996.0	5,387.0
71	Apple	32,479.0	4,834.0
72	CHS	32,167.5	803.0
73	Coca-Cola	31,944.0	5,807.0
74	American Express	31,877.0	2,699.0
75	DuPont	31,836.0	2,007.0
76	New York Life Insurance	31,416.2	-949.7
77	Aetna	30,950.7	1,384.1
78	Motorola	30,146.0	-4,244.0
79	Plains All American Pipeline	30,061.0	437.0
80	Abbott Laboratories	29,527.6	4,880.7
81	Allstate	29,394.0	-1,679.0
82	TIAA-CREF	29,362.5	-3,344.9
83	General Dynamics	29,302.0	2,459.0
84	Prudential Financial	29,275.0	-1,073.0
85	Humana	28,946.4	647.2
86	Liberty Mutual Insurance Group	28,855.0	1,140.0
87	Deere	28,437.6	2,052.8
88	HCA	28,374.0	673.0
89	Tyson Foods	28,130.0	86.0
90	Alcoa	28,119.0	-74.0
91	Tesoro	28,031.0	278.0
92	Murphy Oil	27,512.5	1,740.0
93	Philip Morris International	25,705.0	6,890.0
94	Emerson Electric	25,281.0	2,412.0
95	3M	25,269.0	3,460.0
96	Macy's	24,892.0	-4,803.0
97	International Paper	24,829.0	-1,282.0
98	Occidental Petroleum	24,480.0	6,857.0
99	Travelers Cos.	24,477.0	2,924.0
100	Rite Aid	24,417.7	-1,079.0

Current view: 1-100 101-200 201-300 301-400 401-500 501-600 601-700 701-800 801-900 901-1000

Now.. there  are oil companies, car companies, insurance comapnies, retail, PC hardware, banking, communications.. microsoft ranks in at 35, thats only including the US, So I'd expect its ranking to be a lot lower in the global chart. It is most definitely one of the most profitable corps out there, ranked at 3.

oh, and its the 2009 list. :)