This list comprises the largest companies in the

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as of 2022, according to the Fortune 500 tally of companies. This list includes only

publicly traded companies A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (l ...

, also including tax inversion companies. There are also corporations having foundation in the United States, such as corporate headquarters, operational headquarters and independent subsidiaries. The list excludes large

privately held companies A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is ...

such as

Cargill Cargill, Incorporated, is a privately held American global food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in ter ...

and

Koch Industries Koch Industries, Inc. ( ) is an American privately held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiaries are involved in th ...

whose financial data is not necessarily available to the public. However, this list does include several

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s that were created by acts of Congress and later became publicly traded.

List of the largest companies

Below are the 100 largest companies by revenue in 2022 (mostly for fiscal year 2021), according to the

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list.

List of companies by profit

The 20 most profitable companies in 2022 according to the Fortune 500.

References

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Lists of companies of the United States --

List of the largest companies

List of companies by profit

See also

References