25 companies with $5 billion+ in 2005 profits
By Lee Russ
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 at 05:01 PM
CNN lists the most profitable coporations on the Fortune 500 for 2005. Twenty-five of them had more than $5 billion in profits:
1 Exxon Mobil 36.13
2 Citigroup 24.59
3 Bank of America 16.47
4 General Electric 16.35
5 Chevron 14.10
6 ConocoPhillips 13.53
7 Microsoft 12.25
8 Wal-Mart 11.23
9 American Intl. Group 10.48
10 Altria Group 10.44
11 Johnson & Johnson 10.41
12 Intel 8.66
13 Berkshire Hathaway 8.53
14 J.P. Morgan Chase 8.48
15 Pfizer 8.09
16 IBM 7.93
17 Wells Fargo 7.67
18 Verizon 7.40
19 Procter & Gamble 7.26
20 Wachovia Corp. 6.64
21 Home Depot 5.84
22 Cisco Systems 5.74
23 Goldman Sachs 5.63
24 Occidental Petroleum 5.28
25 Merrill Lynch 5.12