35 GA Companies Make Fortune 500 List For 2023

GEORGIA — Fortune Magazine on Monday released its annual ranking of the 500 biggest companies in America by revenue, and 35 of them have headquarters in Georgia.

This is the 69th edition of the Fortune 500 list, a ranking of companies by total annual revenue. The corporations on the list had combined revenues of $18 trillion in fiscal year 2022 and account for two-thirds of the gross domestic product, Fortune said in a news release. Profits, down 15 percent, fell for the second time in the last three years.

Companies in Georgia, including their rankings and revenue, that made the list are:

• Home Depot, Ranked No. 20, $157,403M
• UPS, Ranked No. 37, $100,338M
• Delta Air Lines, Ranked No. 85, $50,582M
• Coca-Cola, Ranked No. 100, $43,004M
• Southern, Ranked No. 138, $29,279M
• Genuine Parts, Ranked No. 179, $22,096M
• WestRock, Ranked No. 183, $21,257M
• Aflac, Ranked No. 207, $19,502M
• PulteGroup, Ranked No. 259, $16,229M
• Asbury Automotive Group, Ranked No. 268, $15,434M
• Norfolk Southern, Ranked No. 320, $12,745M
• AGCO, Ranked No. 324, $12,651M
• Mohawk Industries, Ranked No. 351, $11,737M
• Assurant, Ranked No. 384, $10,193M
• Intercontinental Exchange, Ranked No. 401, $9,636M
• Newell Brands, Ranked No. 408, $9,459M
• Graphic Packaging Holding, Ranked No. 409, $9,440M
• Global Payments, Ranked No. 425, $8,976M
• NCR, Ranked No. 474, $7,844M
• Veritiv, Ranked No. 503, $7,146M
• Equifax, Ranked No. 640, $5,122M
• Flowers Foods, Ranked No. 664, $4,806M
• GMS, Ranked No. 678, $4,635M
• BlueLinx Holdings, Ranked No. 699, $4,450M
• Floor & Decor Holdings, Ranked No. 718, $4,265M
• SiteOne Landscape Supply, Ranked No. 741, $4,015M
• Acuity Brands, Ranked No. 742, $4,006M
• Gray Television, Ranked No. 792, $3,676M
• Fleetcor Technologies, Ranked No. 831, $3,427M
• Carter's, Ranked No. 867, $3,213M
• Americold Realty Trust, Ranked No. 904, $2,915M
• Saia, Ranked No. 920, $2,792M
• Primerica, Ranked No. 940, $2,720M
• Rollins, Ranked No. 946, $2,696M
• Synovus Financial, Ranked No. 989, $2,485M

For the first time in the list’s history, more than 10 percent of Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs. This year’s list includes 52 Fortune 500 companies that are led by women, an all-time high, up from 44 last year.

One of those women is chief executive Carol B. Tomé at UPS, which specializes in mail, package and freight delivery and is based in Atlanta.

The number of companies led by women in this year’s Fortune 500 are a “slow, but real” sign of progress, Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontoll said in her foreword in the June/July issue of the magazine.

“There are also more Black CEOs running Fortune 500s than ever before — but it’s shameful to say that there are still only eight,” Shontoll wrote.

The companies on the list are based in 224 cities in 38 states. For the second year, Texas leads with 55 Fortune 500 companies, followed by California with 53 companies, which bumped New York to No. 3 with 50 companies.

With 40 Fortune 500 companies based there, New York City is the top-ranked municipality, followed by Houston with 22 and Atlanta with 15.

The top 10 companies on the 2023 list are Walmart, Amazon.com, Exxon Mobil, Apple, UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health, Berkshire Hathaway, Alphabet, McKeeson and Chevron.

Walmart held the top spot for the 11th consecutive year, generating $5.7 trillion cumulative revenue over that time. Amazon.com is at No. 2 for the fourth straight year with a 9 percent jump in revenue, eclipsing the $510 billion mark. At No. 3 with a 45 percent jump in revenue, Exxon Mobil bumped Apple to No. 4.

But with $99.8 billion in profits, Apple was the most profitable company on the list for the eighth time in nine years.

UnitedHealth Group is the highest-ranked health care company on the list at No. 5, followed by CVS Health at No. 6.