14 Mind Blowing Facts on the Fortune 500 by OrgChartCity. Download 2015 Fortune 500 spreadsheet list at the end.

1. FORTUNE 500
COMPANIES

2. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
➠ Largest U.S. companies ranked by gross
revenues
➠ Both publicly traded & privately held companies
➠ Private companies need to fully disclose
financials
➠ Handful of companies traded on foreign
exchanges
DEFINITION

3. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
1. They account for 71.9% of total U.S. GDP

4. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
2. Annual Revenues of $12+ Trillion Dollars
That's more than the GDP of the UK, Germany,
Russia, France, and India combined !

5. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
3. Profits of $950 Billion Dollars
X 950 !!

6. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
4. Total Market Value of $17 Trillion Dollars

7. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
5. 27 Million employees globally

8. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
6. 95% of CEOs expect their company to change
more in the next 5 years than in the past 5 years.

9. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
7. 40 ‘Unicorns' born in the past 10 years.

10. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
Xiaomi ($46 Billion)
Uber ($41 Billion) Airbnb ($20 Billion)
8. Recent unicorns include:

11. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
9. Walmart had more than $16 Billion in profits

12. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
10. Apple made $40 Billion in profits (#1 in profits)

13. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
11. Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest CEO at age 30.

14. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
12. Warren Buffett is the oldest at age 85.

15. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
13. GM & GE have made the Fortune 500 list every
year since Fortune started publishing the list in 1955

16. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
14. Only 5% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women

17. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
15. 38% have less than 11 characters in their
company name
IBM
UPS
AIG

18. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
16. 36% have one word names
Chevron
Costco
Boeing

19. FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
16. 27% have names that start with the letters A, C,
or S
Apple
CVS
Sysco

20. Download the 2015 Fortune 500 list in a
Spreadsheet (.XLS) for free. Columns include:
➠ Fortune Rank
➠ Company Name
➠ Ticker Symbol
➠ Exchange
➠ Industry (Fortune)
➠ Management Team URLs (OrgChartCity team spent hours finding these links)
http://www.orgchartcity.com/products/2015-fortune-500-list