22 Virginia Companies Make Fortune 500 List For 2017

Fortune Magazine is out with its coveted Fortune 500 list for 2017 and of the companies on the list, which represent two-thirds of the United States GDP with $12 trillion in revenues, 22 of them have headquarters based in Virginia.

Companies are ranked by total revenues and topping the list nationally is Walmart, followed by Berkshire Hathaway and Apple. Walmart is also the biggest employer on the list with 2.3 million employees while Apple is the most profitable company on the list.

While 15 companies dropped off the list, there were 20 newcomers on the list, including Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla. Other than clearing the bar of at least $5.1 billion in annual revenue, Fortune explains how newcomers make it on the list.

The 2017 list also includes 32 female CEOs, which Fortune says it the highest number of female CEOs to ever make the list.

The Virginia companies that made the list are:

• No. 39 Freddie Mac
• No. 90 General Dynamics
• No. 100 Capital One Financial
• No. 114 Northrop Grumman
• No. 136 Dollar Tree
• No. 148 Altria Group
• No. 171 Performance Food Group
• No. 174 CarMax
• No. 190 WestRock
• No. 194 AES
• No. 238 Dominion Energy
• No. 241 Hilton Worldwide Holdings
• No. 284 Norfolk Southern
• No. 288 Owens & Minor
• No. 292 Advance Auto Parts
• No. 329 Genworth Financial
• No. 379 Computer Sciences
• No. 380 Huntington Ingalls Industries
• No. 381 Leidos Holdings
• No. 415 CalAtlantic Group
• No. 446 NVR
• No. 460 Markel

Click here to see all 500 companies and to explore the list in further detail.

Companies on the Fortune list are ranked by total revenues for their respective fiscal years. The figure shown is a fiscal year-end number as published by the company in its annual report.

This Fortune 500 Directory includes income statements and balance sheet data provided by the companies that were reviewed and verified against published earnings releases and annual reports.

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