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 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.

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As the list is published early in the calendar year, Forbes has to use out of date information for the many non U.S companies which have year ends early in the calendar year, including Japanese companies, which all have 31 March year ends.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

2006 list

Listed below are the top 50 companies featured on the 2006 list.

1. Citigroup
2. General Electric
3. Bank of America
4. American International Group
5. HSBC
6. ExxonMobil
7. Royal Dutch Shell
8. BP
9. JPMorgan Chase
10. UBS
11. ING Group
12. Toyota Motor
13. Wal-Mart Stores
14. Royal Bank of Scotland
15. Total
16. Chevron
17. BNP Paribas
18. Berkshire Hathaway
19. Banco Santander Central Hispano
20. Barclays
21. Procter & Gamble
22. ConocoPhillips
23. IBM
24. HBOS
25. Verizon Communications
26. Wells Fargo
27. Altria Group
28. AXA
29. Allianz
30. Credit Suisse
31. ENI
32. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
33. E.ON
34. Morgan Stanley
35. Pfizer
36. Merrill Lynch
37. Fannie Mae
38. Fortis
39. Deutsche Telekom
40. Wachovia
41. ABN AMRO
42. Goldman Sachs
43. Société Générale
44. Mizuho Financial
45. DaimlerChrysler
46. Crédit Agricole
47. Lloyds TSB
48. Samsung Electronics
49. AT&T
50. Nestlé

The bottom ten companies on the 2006 list are:

• 1991 Citizen Watch
• 1992 Daido Steel
• 1993 Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
• 1994 Bank of Okinawa
• 1995 AGL Resources
• 1996 NRG Energy
• 1997 BCGE Group
• 1998 Sierra Pacific Resources
• 1999 Nippon TV Network
• 2000 Markel

The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/18/Rank_1.html.

2005 list

2005 breakdown by region

• North America - 821
• Pacific Rim - 544
• Western Europe - 349
• Northern Europe - 178
• South Asia - 32
• Eastern Europe - 7
• South America - 26
• Africa - 20
• Middle East - 9

2005 breakdown by country

1. United States - 719
2. Japan - 326
3. United Kingdom - 140
4. Canada - 69
5. Germany - 63
6. France - 62
7. Italy - 45
8. South Korea - 41
9. Australia - 38
10. Switzerland - 37
11. Taiwan - 35
12. Netherlands - 33
13. India - 30
14. Spain - 30
15. Hong Kong, China - 28
16. Sweden - 28
17. China (mainland only) - 25
18. Bermuda - 19
19. Brazil - 19
20. Mexico - 18
21. South Africa - 18
22. Finland - 15
23. Malaysia - 14
24. Russia - 13
25. Singapore - 13
26. Thailand - 13
27. Belgium - 12
28. Greece - 12
29. Turkey - 11
30. Denmark - 10

Many other countries have between 1 and 9 companies on the list.

See also

• Forbes
• Fortune Global 500

External links

• The Forbes Global 2000 current list
• The 2005 list of Global 2000

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