Business: The Top 5 world’s most profitable company in the year 2011
Top 1: Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon Mobil) is the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company, providing energy that helps underpin growing economies and improve living standards around the world. It operates facilities or market products in most of the world’s countries and explore for oil and natural gas on six continents. ExxonMobil uses innovation and technology to deliver energy to a growing world. It explore for, produce and sell crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products.The Company has a number of divisions and affiliates with names that include ExxonMobil, Exxon, Esso or Mobil. Divisions and affiliated companies of Exxon
Financial highlights
Market Cap US$407.41 Billions As of April 2012
Profit:US$41.06 Billions As of December 31 2011
Assets: US$331.05 Billions As of December 31 2011
Revenue: US$433.53 Billions As of December 31 2011
ExxonMobil Corporate Headquarters - Irving, Texas, USA
Top 2: Apple Inc. (Apple), along with its subsidiaries is engaged in designs, manufactures and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players, and sells a range of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. The Company's products and services include iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod, Apple TV, a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications, the iOS and Mac OS X operating systems, iCloud, and a range of accessory, service and support offerings. It also sells and delivers digital content and applications through the iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store. During the year ended November 24, 2011, the Company, as part of a consortium, acquired Nortel Networks Corporation's patent portfolio. In February 2012, the Company acquired app-search engine Chomp.
Market CapUS$545.97 Billions As of April 2012
Profit:US$33 Billions As of December 31 2011
Assets: US$138.7 Billions As of December 31 2011
Revenue: US$127.84 Billions As of December 31 2011
Debt:NA
1–6 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, USA
Top 3: Gazprom OAO is a Russia-based company that, along with its subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in the operation of gas pipeline systems and gas supply to European countries. In addition, it is involved in the oil production and refining activities, as well as energy generation. The Company's activities comprise exploration and production of gas, transportation of gas, sale of gas within the Russian Federation and abroad, gas storage, production of crude oil and gas condensate, processing of oil, gas condensate and other hydrocarbons, and sales of refined products, as well as electric and heat energy generation and sales. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company also has operations established in the United Kingdom, Serbia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Vietnam, India, Iraq, Algeria, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Bolivia and Venezuela, among others. The Company's ultimate controlling party is the Government of the Russian Federation.
Financial highlights
Market CapUS$159.75 Billions As of April 2012
Profit:US$31.7 Billions As of December 31 2011
Assets: US$302.6 Billions As of December 31 2011
Revenue: US$117.62 Billions As of December 31 2011
Debt:NA
Gazprom's corporate headquarters in Moscow, Russia
Top 4: Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) is an independent oil and gas company. The Company owns, directly or indirectly, investments in the numerous companies constituting Shell. Shell is engaged worldwide in the principal aspects of the oil and gas industry and also has interests in chemicals and other energy-related businesses. The Company operates in three segments: Upstream, Downstream and Corporate. Upstream combines the operating segments Upstream International and Upstream Americas, which are engaged in searching for and recovering crude oil and natural gas; the liquefaction and transportation of gas; the extraction of bitumen from oil sands that is converted into synthetic crude oil, and wind energy. Downstream is engaged in manufacturing; distribution and marketing activities for oil products and chemicals. Corporate represents the key support functions, comprising holdings and treasury, headquarters, central functions and Shell's self-insurance activities.
Financial highlights
Market CapUS$227.6 Billions As of April 2012
Profit:US$30.9 Billions As of December 31 2011
Assets: US$340.5 Billions As of December 31 2011
Revenue: US$470.2 Billions As of December 31 2011
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL and headquarter is DEN HAAG, HOLLAND
Top 5: Chevron Corporation (Chevron) manages its investments in subsidiaries and affiliates and provides administrative, financial, management and technology support to the United States and international subsidiaries that engage in petroleum operations, chemicals operations, mining operations, power generation and energy services. Upstream operations consist primarily of exploring for, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas; processing, liquefaction, transportation and regasification associated with liquefied natural gas; transporting crude oil by international oil export pipelines; transporting, storage and marketing of natural gas; and a gas-to-liquids project. Downstream operations consist primarily of refining crude oil into petroleum products; marketing of crude oil and refined products; transporting crude oil by pipeline, motor equipment and rail car, and manufacturing and marketing of commodity petrochemicals, plastics for industrial uses and fuel and lubricant additives.
Financial highlights
Market CapUS$218.02 Billions As of April 2012
Profit:US$26.9 Billions As of December 31 2011
Assets: US$209.5 Billions As of December 31 2011
Revenue: 236.3 Billions As of December 31 2011
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