The Fortune companies is a ranking of the top companies in United States public corporations as measured by gross revenue. Fortune magazine compiles and publishes the list annually. Fortune 100 is a frequently used term used to reference the top 100 firms in this same list, and Fortune 1000 refers to the top 1000 firms ranked according to the same methodology. The Forbes 500, on the other hand, ranks companies by a balanced evaluation of revenues, income, assets and market capitalization.
All numbers are based on revenue figures for each company`s previous fiscal year, which may end on different dates for each company.
The Fortune Global 200 is a ranking of the top 200 corporations as measured by revenue. The list is compiled and published annually by Fortune magazine. It differs from the Fortune 200 in that the latter only lists the top US corporations.Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune.
All of the companies in the list are large publicly-held companies which trade on major US stock exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The market-value weighted performance of the stocks of these companies is known as the S&P 200 index. After the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 is the most widely-watched index of large-cap US stocks and is considered to be a bellwether for the US economy. It is often quoted using the symbol GSPC or SPX, and may be prefixed with a caret .
Many index funds and exchange-traded funds track the performance of the S&P 200 by holding the same stocks as the S&P 200 index, attempting to match its performance. Partly because of this, a company which has its stock added to the list may see a boost in its stock price as mutual fund managers are forced to purchase that company`s stock in order to match their index funds` composition to that of the S&P 200 index.
