The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years. The list includes publicly held companies, along with privately held companies for which revenues are publicly available. The concept of the Fortune 500 was created by Edgar P. Smith, a Fortune editor, and the first list was published in 1955. The Fortune 500 is more commonly used than its subset Fortune 100 or superset Fortune 1000.

As of 2020, the Fortune 500 companies represent approximately two-thirds of the United States Gross Domestic Product with approximately $14.2 trillion in revenue, $1.2 trillion in profits, and $20.4 trillion in total market value. These revenue figures also account for approximately 18% of the gross world product. The companies collectively employ a total of 29.2 million people worldwide, or nearly 0.4% of the world's total population.

Context

Every year Fortune, an American Business Magazine, publishes the Fortune 500, which ranks the top 500 corporations by revenue. This dataset includes the entire Fortune 1000, as opposed to just the top 500.

Content

The Fortune 1000 dataset is from the Fortune website, collected by the processes outlined in this notebook. It contains U.S. company data for the year 2022 (updated from 2021). The dataset is 1000 rows and 18 columns.

Features

• Company - values are the name of the company
• Rank - The 2021 rank established by Fortune (1-1000)
• Rank Change - The change in the rank from 2020 to 2021. There is only a rank change listed if the company is currently in the top 500 and was previously in the top 500.
• Revenue - Revenue of each company in millions. This is the criteria used to rank each company.
• Profit - Profit of each company in millions.
• Num. of Employees - The number of employees each company employs.
• Sector - The sector of the market the company operates in.
• City - The city where the company's headquarters is located.
• State - The state where the company's headquarters is located
• Newcomer - Indicates whether or not the company is new to the top Fortune 500 ("yes" or "no"). No value will be listed for companies outside of the top 500.
• CEO Founder - Indicates whether the CEO of the company is also the founder ("yes" or "no").
• CEO Woman - Indicates whether the CEO of the company is a woman ("yes" or "no").
• Profitable - Indicates whether the company is profitable or not ("yes" or "no").
• Prev. Rank - The 2020 rank of the company, as established by Fortune. There will only be previous rank data for the top 500 companies.
• CEO - The name of the CEO of the company
• Website - The url of the company website
• Ticker - The stock ticker symbol of public companies. Some rows will have empty values because the company is a private corporation.
• Market Cap - The market cap (or value) of the company in millions. Some rows will have empty values because the company is private. Market valuations were determined on January 20, 2021.

Inspiration

This dataset is made to explore the top corporations in the U.S. Answer questions such as: What percentage of companies have women ceo's? How many companies are newcomers? What percentage of companies have ceos who were also founders? What role does profitability play in ranking?

From 2000 to 2019, the United States had more Fortune 500 companies than any other country. In 2020, the U.S. was surpassed by China, where *** companies were reported, compared to *** U.S. companies. This is an impressive increase, as there were only ** Fortune 500 companies in China in 2000. In 2023, the number of top world companies ranked by revenue grew by *** in China, while in the U.S. there were ** more companies than in 2022.

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