Dear Friends, Checkout the following list from Business Week Magazine Business Week Global 1000 http://www.businessweek.com/contents.htm Sincerely, Ahmad Syamil Toledo, OH http://www.geocities.com/asyamil/ PS: I bcc this to others ------------------------------------- I. MARKET VALUE RANK. PS: Market value = stock price x the number of stocks (BILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS) 1 GENERAL ELECTRIC $520.25 2 INTEL 416.71 3 CISCO SYSTEMS 395.01 4 MICROSOFT 322.82 5 EXXON MOBIL 289.92 6 VODAFONE AIRTOUCH 277.95 7 WAL-MART STORES 256.66 8 NTT DOCOMO 247.24 9 NOKIA 242.19 10 ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL 213.54 II. SALES RANK (BILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS) 1 EXXON MOBIL $185.53 2 GENERAL MOTORS 173.22 3 WAL-MART STORES 166.81 4 FORD MOTOR 162.56 5 DAIMLERCHRYSLER 151.04 6 MITSUI 129.84 7 MITSUBISHI CORP. 127.05 8 TOYOTA MOTOR 119.71 9 ITOCHU 112.75 10 GENERAL ELECTRIC 111.63 III. PROFIT RANK (BILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS) 1 HUTCHISON WHAMPOA $14.25 2 GENERAL ELECTRIC 10.72 3 CITIGROUP 9.99 4 ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL GROUP 8.58 5 EXXON MOBIL 7.91 6 BANK OF AMERICA 7.88 7 MICROSOFT 7.79 8 IBM 7.71 9 PHILIP MORRIS 7.68 10 CHEUNG KONG HOLDINGS 7.62 IV. SHARE (STOCK) PRICE GAIN RANK (% change from 1999 in U.S. dollars) 1 SDL 874% 2 BROCADE COMM. SYSTEMS 631 3 BEA SYSTEMS 609 4 I2 TECHNOLOGIES 573 5 APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS 571 6 PMC-SIERRA 531 7 BROADVISION 520 8 INTEGRATED DEVICE TECH. 498 9 VERITAS SOFTWARE 494 10 ORACLE 479 DATA: MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INC.
