T
he Industryweek 50 Best U.S. Manufacturers is IW's exclusive annual ranking of America's top-performing public manufacturers.
IW compiles the list by ranking the IW U.S. 500 companies based on their financial performance in six key areas over a three-year period. This includes inventory turns, profit margin, asset turns, return on assets, return on equity, and revenue growth. The most recent year accounts for 50% of the calculation, while 2004 is weighted at 30% and 2003 contributes 20%.
This list was published in the July 2006 issue of IndustryWeek.
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Rank |
Company Name | Industry | Revenue (Millions) | Revenue Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exxon Mobil Corp. | Petroleum And Coal | $363,137 | 23.91 |
| 2 | Chevron Corp. | Petroleum And Coal | $194,469 | 27.34 |
| 3 | Gen. Motors Corp. | Motor Vehicles | $192,604 | (0.47) |
| 4 | ConocoPhillips | Petroleum And Coal | $179,907 | 32.89 |
| 5 | Ford Motor Co. | Motor Vehicles | $177,089 | 3.17 |
| 6 | Gen. Electric Co. | Elec. Equip. And Appl. | $149,702 | (1.75) |
| 7 | Altria Group Inc. | Tobacco | $97,854 | 9.2 |
| 8 | IBM Corp. | Computers And Electronics | $91,134 | (5.36) |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co. | Computers And Electronics | $86,696 | 8.5 |
| 10 | Valero Energy Corp. | Petroleum And Coal | $82,162 | 50.43 |
| 11 | Verizon Comm. Inc. | Publishing And Printing | $75,112 | 5.37 |
| 12 | Marathon Oil Corp. | Petroleum And Coal | $63,350 | 27.47 |
| 13 | Procter & Gamble Co. | Chemicals | $56,741 | 10.38 |
| 14 | Dell Inc. | Computers And Electronics | $55,908 | 13.62 |
| 15 | Boeing Co. | Aerospace And Defense | $54,845 | 4.55 |
| 16 | Pfizer Inc. | Pharmaceuticals | $51,298 | (2.32) |
| 17 | Johnson & Johnson | Pharmaceuticals | $50,514 | 6.69 |
| 18 | Dow Chemical Co. | Chemicals | $46,307 | 15.3 |
| 19 | Time Warner Inc. | Publishing And Printing | $43,652 | 3.71 |
| 20 | United Technologies Corp. | Aerospace And Defense | $42,725 | 14.1 |
| 21 | Microsoft Corp. | Computers And Electronics | $39,788 | 8.02 |
| 22 | Intel Corp. | Computers And Electronics | $38,826 | 13.5 |
| 23 | Lockheed Martin Corp. | Aerospace And Defense | $37,213 | 4.75 |
| 24 | Motorola Inc. | Comm. Equipment | $36,843 | 17.62 |
| 25 | Caterpillar Inc. | Machinery | $36,339 | 20.12 |
| 26 | Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. | Food | $35,943 | (0.57) |
| 27 | Kraft Foods Inc. | Food | $34,113 | 6.05 |
| 28 | Sunoco Inc. | Petroleum And Coal | $33,738 | 32.4 |
| 29 | PepsiCo Inc. | Beverages | $32,562 | 11.28 |
| 30 | Northrop Grumman Corp. | Aerospace And Defense | $30,721 | 2.91 |
| 31 | Delphi Corp.* | Motor Vehicle Parts | $28,622 | 1.87 |
| 32 | Du Pont & Co. | Chemicals | $28,383 | 1.24 |
| 33 | Honeywell International Inc. | Miscellaneous | $27,653 | 8.02 |
| 34 | Johnson Controls Inc. | Motor Vehicle Parts | $27,479 | 3.49 |
| 35 | Alcoa Inc. | Primary Metals | $26,159 | 11.42 |
| 36 | Tyson Foods Inc. | Food | $26,014 | (1.61) |
| 37 | Cisco Systems Inc. | Computers And Electronics | $24,801 | 12.5 |
| 38 | International Paper Co. | Paper | $24,097 | (5.68) |
| 39 | News Corp. | Publishing And Printing | $23,859 | 10.56 |
| 40 | Coca-Cola Co. | Beverages | $23,104 | 5.2 |
| 41 | Amerada Hess Corp. | Petroleum And Coal | $22,879 | 35.52 |
| 42 | Weyerhaeuser Co. | Wood Products | $22,629 | (0.16) |
| 43 | Abbott Laboratories | Pharmaceuticals | $22,337 | 13.51 |
| 44 | Merck & Co. Inc. | Pharmaceuticals | $22,011 | (4.04) |
| 45 | Deere & Co. | Machinery | $21,930 | 9.73 |
| 46 | Raytheon Co. | Aerospace And Defense | $21,894 | 8.15 |
| 47 | Gen. Dynamics Corp. | Rail Ships Trans. Equ. | $21,244 | 10.77 |
| 48 | 3M Co. | Chemicals | $21,167 | 5.78 |
| 49 | Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. | Rubber Products | $19,723 | 7.36 |
| 50 | Sara Lee Corp. | Food | $19,254 | (1.59) |
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