Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Why Aren't Environmentalists Begging To Stop The Search For The Malaysian Airliner?

The Modern Environmental Movement Is A Battle For Political Power And Corporate Money

Hey buddy, what's your carbon footprint?  If you are part of the search party for the M.I.A. Malaysian Boeing 777 it is huge.  With 25 countries taking part in the search (so far) the total cost of time, fuel, and manpower may be eventually measured in the 100's of millions (to be conservative).  As for the carbon footprint? You wont hear a word about it.

Imagine a military exercise slated to take 100's of ships/vessels without a firm completion date.  Now imagine the uproar and calculations that would be made to determine the 'environmental damage'... Huge! Right?

Do we really need to look for the lost 777? We feel obligated, but lets please be honest, we know that it went down and that the primary correction needed is for a permanent transponder to be installed to all commercial aircraft so that we can track future suicide missions. Aside from that, the wreckage (if there is any) will eventually be spotted by passing ships on their normal routes.

So where is the outrage over the wasted tonnage of carbon into the atmosphere.  Isn't this carbon just as damaging as that produced by your SUV, dog, or hamburger?

It's a prime example that the environmental advocates of today's world carefully pick their fights (not on the merits of saving soil, air, or water); instead with a firm basis on political and monetary gain rooted deeply in public opinion.  As for the environment, it will probably survive the terrible toll of humans searching for loved ones.


Friday, November 2, 2012

The Case To Fire Barack Obama

By His Own Standard, Obama Came Up Short

NOV.02.2012 (The Plastico) - The final data is in for 2008-2012 and while several metrics can be used to measure a President, the challenges of this moment have not been met with decisive executive leadership. Obama was elected into a precarious situation; multiple wars, an economy searching for a bottom, staggering budget deficits, and a darkening sky over every federal entitlement program.  

In short, the response has been uneven, unclear, and the basis for four additional years untenable.

We reviewed crucial data points on the economy and on the key issue of jobs.  We conclude that the past 4 years have been an unmitigated disaster with the labor participation rate now tumbling to a 30 year low. 


Romney has been accused of soliciting a war on women but Romney hasn't managed a workforce disaster for women.  On the last day of 2008 forty-seven million women had jobs.  Today, two million fewer women have jobs.  Those that do are making almost 10% less then they did the day Obama took office.  

In January of 2008 Women had an average salary of $47,418.00.  Today,  4 years later, a period mostly of  'recovery' since the conclusion of the recession in June of 2009 women now earn an average of $45,362.  Hang on, its worse than it sounds because that $2,000 or so in reduced pay calculated with basic inflation puts the true loss of income at approximately $4,000 for every working women during Obama's term.

How about minorities? The data is worse, as is total employment and the total pain of higher so called 'bread basket' costs. Want more - read all you want from the: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Who else is worse off?  The NY Times just reported that we now have a record number of people in jail, we all know that we have a record number people on food-stamps, and an alarming number of people being transferred to permanent disability - also a new record. 


In fact, this one had to be checked a few times - nearly 6 million people have gone on federal disability under Obama - a historic new record during a period where workplace safety has never been more carefully observed.  So how are all of these people getting hurt?  Economic pain maybe?


American's have always opposed Obamacare, a law that never received a Republican vote

You might remember that Obama said a few months ago that "The private sector is doing fine".  Many said that the comment was an accidental 'gaffe' and we were directed Obama's  quick apology to 'set it straight'.  But that rhetoric was a telling indication of just how Obama sees the private sector and its by looking narrowly at the Fortune 500 while ignoring the huge share of struggling small business' that he argued "Didn't build that".

The evidence is clear when reading the full context.  Obama stated that he thinks increased deficit spending through the hiring of government workers is the fix-

"The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government. Oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, Governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don't have the same kind of flexibility as the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in. And so, you know, if Republicans want to be helpful, if they really want to move forward and put people back to work, what they should be thinking about is how do we help state and local governments"
Obama may want to show less concern for government employees whose federal salaries are somehow 37% higher than the pay per hour of the rest of Americans who are digging deeper and deeper to pay out those salaries.

So who exactly is better off (in addition to Federal workers)? 

Big corporations have had a heyday under the Obama administration and have reeled in record profits during three endless rounds of Quantitative Easing.  Obama' team has generally kept in place the Greenspan/Bernanke/W. Bush policy of easy money.  In fact, he's put that policy on steroids.  

It's been a breathtaking long term party of low interest allowing banks to lend (mostly to well capitalized large corporations).  A policy that former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich points out "won’t help the economy, but will simply fuel a new round of mergers and acquisitions".  One example, George Lucas selling out to Disney just in time to beat Obama's tax hikes scheduled for January 1st. We saw M&A records crushed in 2011 with no end in site.  These policies are good for the stock market but terrible for employment and jobs says Reich, who notes that the first step of a buyout is to fire all the redundant positions between the two companies.

While most voters have no clue what quantitative easing means, seniors and retirees have been stuck with the brunt of the pain. For example, check on the current rates for a savings account or a certificate of deposit (the places that seniors keep retirement savings) and you will see the worst rate of return...ever.  On this point Romney has a clear plan that will help seniors first and foremost - allow a zero tax on dividends and interest for those making less than $250,000.  For seniors on fixed incomes- this would be a welcome relief to the past decade.


The Ryan plan tracks close to the Simpson-Bowles Plan that the President commissioned but refused to enact

A primary reason that the Obama administration wants a 2nd term is because they say that Mitt (and folks like him) simply pay way too little in taxes. Obama promised to raise taxes on 'the rich' during his 08' campaign but when given the chance every day for two years he didn't.  His reason - the economy was too fragile at the time.  

Now with GDP slower than it was in 2011 or 2010; Obama says its the right time to raise taxes.  Make sense? It shouldn't.  Americans are about to get the second half of Obama economic policy.  First came the spending that doubled the deficit and now comes the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and emergency cuts?

But since many of Obama's adds are personal attacks on Romney lets take a quick look at Obama's repeated claims that folks like Mitt pay less than the hard working middle class.  The facts tell a different story.  Here is a breakdown of income earners and what their effective rates are via Politifact-

Bottom fifth of earners: -12.3 percent (they pay no taxes, receive checks)
Second-to-bottom fifth
: -4.2 percent (they pay no taxes, receive checks)
Middle fifth : 4.1 percent
Second-highest fifth : 8.2 percent
Highest fifth : 17.3 percent


The point missed completely is that anyone who collects their income via dividends (like Romney) is paying a double tax on income already taxed at the corporate level.  The current 35% rate, the highest in the industrialized world, has already been handed over to the feds no matter if the corporation is owned by one person or one thousand people. Dividends are a result of that already taxed money being distributed to the owners of the company.  Regarding Romney's 14.3% tax rate; try 44.3% for the IRS take.   This of course all before state, local, and every other excise is calculated in.  
 
Is there another way?  Yes, the Romney-Ryan plan is a growth plan to add new taxpayers while freeing up U.S. corporate capital.  The focus is on energy.  


Turning back the Keystone Pipeline was indeed an unforgivable act by Mr. Obama that cost thousands of jobs.  More importantly, it gave us a look into the Obama administrations criteria for energy:  If the environmental lobbyists want it, do it - if they don't, then we will stop it.  Romney certainly wont employ an energy secretary that is indifferent to gas prices, and he wont play a shell game with coal, gas, and crude oil drilling permits just so we can continue to ship money overseas in trade for tankers full of crude oil.  

Obama says he wants manufacturing jobs and one thing will get us there -more cheap natural gas for energy.  Just ask CNN's Fareed Zakaria who recently explained that more savings on energy makes America's factories competitive again. 


The real question for American's is simple. Can Obama's do in a 2nd term what he couldn't do in his first? What is he planning to do differently?


Bush's huge emergency asset relief plan or 'Tarp' was outdone by the Obama stimulus package.  While Tarp has reportedly turned a profit for the treasury, the stimulus package has a well deserved reputation of waste, earmarks, and nontraditional investments into the pockets of private companies that were friendly to Obama's thinking.  As Romney says correctly, the government should not be picking winners or losers.  

In doing so, the problems are profound; just look at one example that has been uncovered recently at LG Chemical where workers sit and play cards because there is nothing to do.  Why haven't they been laid off? Because you the taxpayer are paying their paycheck whether they work or not; sadly they are not.  The Chevy Volt they produce batteries for are essentially being made on the promise that unborn American children will repay unborn Chinese children (someday) for the loss of each vehicle produced

Finally the issue that could decide Ohio and therefore the election: the infamous 'auto bailout'.  By now, every voter knows that Ohio will likely be the linchpin for the election. The Obama camp is doubling down on one grossly misleading accusation: 'Mitt wanted Detroit (and apparently Ohio) to go bankrupt and we saved the day'.  

One might be tempted to agree with Obama after seeing thousands of ads and a complicit media describe the auto bailout.  But see if you can guess which candidate advocated for slashing exec pay and perks, letting stockholders take the hit to save the company, guaranteeing government support, demanding fuel savings, and advocating for the structural changes needed "To save Detroit for the long term..." 


Only a left wing radical like Mitt Romney would make those suggestions in 2008- maybe folks should actually just read Romney's article that Obama is betting his re-election on: 'Let Detroit Go Bankrupt'.  

After all, Detroit did go bankrupt; Chrysler was sold to the Italian company Fiat and Obama made sure that GM bondholders took it in the shorts while giving his supporters (the UAW) a better deal.  The rest of the deal that apparently saved America's heartland involved massive dealership closures across the country plus the sacrifice of Non-Union companies like Delphi. It's not Obama's fault that the Big 3 was in trouble, however, it was in large part the UAW's fault.  

We didn't hear about other manufacturers like Honda, Toyota, and Nissan going bankrupt - those companies all have auto plants in America.  Why? Those workers didn't cost near what the UAW was able to get from the big 3 after decades of collective bargaining and strikes.  The big 3 was no longer viable and Romney's bankruptcy plan would have given GM and Chrysler the flexibility to re-organize with government backing without the full $14B in losses that taxpayers suffered.

All of this aside Obama gave us his standard on fixing the economy, “If I don’t have this done in three years, then this is going to be a one‑term proposition.”.  More recently, he gave himself an incomplete on fixing the economy. On November 6th, It's time to fire Barack Obama; and this case was made without one mention of Benghazi, credit ratings, turning back the oceans, Joe Biden, Solyndra,
Guantanamo, Immigration reform, or the 100's of other broken campaign promises that Obama never even attempted to employ.

The Plastico.Nov.02.2012

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Why Mitt Has To Pick Marco To Win In November

The Overwhelming Electoral College Case For Selecting Marco Rubio of Florida As VP

Los Angeles, CA (The Plastico) - A few days ago President Obama made a seemingly bold statement on gay marriage - he supports it.  Since then, it has become clear that the President's statement to ABC news was nothing more provocative or supportive than Dick Cheney's statement in 2004 that he too supports same sex marriage.  In both cases, both men said they support it but that they also support a states right to  ban it outright. 

As the smoke cleared, a few things became obvious.  Obama had now 'boldly' evolved into Dick Cheney of 2004 (regarding gay marriage), and an electoral shift (temporary or not) was unfolding. 

North Carolina, a huge investment for Obama in 2012, may be off the table for Democrats after a decisive 20%+ victory for the gay marriage ban.  Those fifteen electoral votes (won by just 14,000) votes in '08 should be Mitt Romney's to lose.

So how does Marco Rubio fit in?

Romney already had to win Florida and Ohio to have any legitimate chance at the White house.  Because of that necessity it almost appeared crucial that he win Florida without selecting Rubio.  Romney needed to flip other states where he was even further behind Obama. Those states were Virginia (McDonald), Minnesota (Pawlenty), Wisconsin (Ryan) , Colorado (?), Nevada (Sandoval), New Mexico (Martinez) or maybe even New Jersey (Christie) or Pennsylvania (Santorum??? No). 

Keep in mind that Romney geographically swings almost no states with his own nomadic past.  He's lived in Michigan, Massachusetts, and California and has shown no sign of flipping those Democratic strongholds in '12.  However, he likely will swing New Hampshire's 4 electoral votes and he might just need 5 of them. 

This is where Rubio comes into play.  Obama's gay marriage statement may slip under the rug and it may not.  If it doesn't,  it hurts Obama with older voters and white working class churchgoers in swing states like Ohio, North Carolina, Missouri, and possibly Minnesota or Wisconsin.

This leaves Obama changing focus to protect his electoral lead by clinging to a flimsy safety net called  Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico to replace North Carolina's 15 electoral votes.  Obama won these 3 states in 08' and he may need them all for re-election.  Marco Rubio may be Romney's only chance to get younger and darker out west while still getting the closest thing Republicans have to a superstar. 

Sound racist or ageist to anyone? Indeed, that is the game of electoral votes and Romney needs to cut down Obama's advantage among younger voters and Latino's in the West.

To do this Romney needs to jump on a strategy to put 4 states in play and to strengthen a tiny lead in Arizona.  Those four are New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon... yes Oregon.  Oregon has been a closely contended state the past several elections despite literally no effort being made by the GOP.  A recent Survey USA poll had Obama ahead in Oregon by just 4% - right at the margin of error. Certainly, Romney could at least force Obama to spend some unexpected money there.

Keep in mind that Romney has to win Florida and Ohio where he is currently slightly behind but in the margin of error. If Romney was able flip both North Carolina and Virginia back to the GOP he would have a much easier time.  But Virginia will be hard to win back; Obama literally has poured many millions in federal stimulus directly into the pockets of Federal employees living in Northern Virginia. 

So what if Romney takes North Carolina and Obama holds Virginia?  The Plastico Electoral College Team finds the most likely scenario to be a fight out west.  A fight that may well end in a National 269-269 tie.  So How important does that New Mexico and Colorado vote look now?




So don't be surprised if Marco Rubio is announced before the end of May. But don't expect Rubio to hang out around Florida.  You can look for the younger, darker half of the ticket to be arriving at an airport out west to collect some California cash and some potential western votes on the Colorado/New Mexico border. 

2012. The Plastico. All Rights Reserved.





Monday, May 7, 2012

2012 Fortune 500 Full List. The Only Full List On One Page Anywhere On The Web!!

Rank ▾ Company Revenues
($ millions)
Profits
($ millions)
1 Exxon Mobil 452,926.0 41,060.0
2 Wal-Mart Stores 446,950.0 15,699.0
3 Chevron 245,621.0 26,895.0
4 ConocoPhillips 237,272.0 12,436.0
5 General Motors 150,276.0 9,190.0
6 General Electric 147,616.0 14,151.0
7 Berkshire Hathaway 143,688.0 10,254.0
8 Fannie Mae 137,451.0 -16,855.0
9 Ford Motor 136,264.0 20,213.0
10 Hewlett-Packard 127,245.0 7,074.0
11 AT&T 126,723.0 3,944.0
12 Valero Energy 125,095.0 2,090.0
13 Bank of America Corp. 115,074.0 1,446.0
14 McKesson 112,084.0 1,202.0
15 Verizon Communications 110,875.0 2,404.0
16 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 110,838.0 18,976.0
17 Apple 108,249.0 25,922.0
18 CVS Caremark 107,750.0 3,461.0
19 International Business Machines 106,916.0 15,855.0
20 Citigroup 102,939.0 11,067.0
21 Cardinal Health 102,644.2 959.0
22 UnitedHealth Group 101,862.0 5,142.0
23 Kroger 90,374.0 602.0
24 Costco Wholesale 88,915.0 1,462.0
25 Freddie Mac 88,262.0 -5,266.0
26 Wells Fargo 87,597.0 15,869.0
27 Procter & Gamble 82,559.0 11,797.0
28 Archer Daniels Midland 80,676.0 2,036.0
29 AmerisourceBergen 80,217.6 706.6
30 INTL FCStone 75,497.6 37.3
31 Marathon Petroleum 73,645.0 2,389.0
32 Walgreen 72,184.0 2,714.0
33 American International Group 71,730.0 17,798.0
34 MetLife 70,641.0 6,981.0
35 Home Depot 70,395.0 3,883.0
36 Medco Health Solutions 70,063.3 1,455.7
37 Microsoft 69,943.0 23,150.0
38 Target 69,865.0 2,929.0
39 Boeing 68,735.0 4,018.0
40 Pfizer 67,932.0 10,009.0
41 PepsiCo 66,504.0 6,443.0
42 Johnson & Johnson 65,030.0 9,672.0
43 State Farm Insurance Cos. 64,305.1 845.0
44 Dell 62,071.0 3,492.0
45 WellPoint 60,710.7 2,646.7
46 Caterpillar 60,138.0 4,928.0
47 Dow Chemical 59,985.0 2,742.0
48 United Technologies 58,190.0 4,979.0
49 Comcast 55,842.0 4,160.0
50 Kraft Foods 54,365.0 3,527.0
51 Intel 53,999.0 12,942.0
52 United Parcel Service 53,105.0 3,804.0
53 Best Buy 50,272.0 1,277.0
54 Lowe's 50,208.0 1,839.0
55 Prudential Financial 49,045.0 3,666.0
56 Amazon.com 48,077.0 631.0
57 Merck 48,047.0 6,272.0
58 Lockheed Martin 46,692.0 2,655.0
59 Coca-Cola 46,542.0 8,572.0
60 Express Scripts Holding 46,128.3 1,275.8
61 Sunoco 45,765.0 -1,684.0
62 Enterprise Products Partners 44,313.0 2,046.9
63 Safeway 43,630.2 516.7
64 Cisco Systems 43,218.0 6,490.0
65 Sears Holdings 41,567.0 -3,140.0
66 Walt Disney 40,893.0 4,807.0
67 Johnson Controls 40,833.0 1,624.0
68 Morgan Stanley 39,376.0 4,110.0
69 Sysco 39,323.5 1,152.0
70 FedEx 39,304.0 1,452.0
71 Abbott Laboratories 38,851.3 4,728.4
72 DuPont 38,719.0 3,474.0
73 Google 37,905.0 9,737.0
74 Hess 37,871.0 1,703.0
75 Supervalu 37,534.0 -1,510.0
76 United Continental Holdings 37,110.0 840.0
77 Honeywell International 37,059.0 2,067.0
78 CHS 36,915.8 961.4
79 Humana 36,832.0 1,419.0
80 Goldman Sachs Group 36,793.0 4,442.0
81 Ingram Micro 36,328.7 244.2
82 Oracle 35,622.0 8,547.0
83 Delta Air Lines 35,115.0 854.0
84 Liberty Mutual Insurance Group 34,671.0 365.0
85 World Fuel Services 34,622.9 194.0
86 New York Life Insurance 34,393.5 557.3
87 Plains All American Pipeline 34,275.0 966.0
88 TIAA-CREF 34,079.0 2,388.4
89 Aetna 33,779.8 1,985.7
90 Sprint Nextel 33,679.0 -2,890.0
91 News Corp. 33,405.0 2,739.0
92 General Dynamics 32,677.0 2,526.0
93 Allstate 32,654.0 788.0
94 HCA Holdings 32,506.0 2,465.0
95 American Express 32,282.0 4,935.0
96 Tyson Foods 32,266.0 750.0
97 Deere 32,012.5 2,799.9
98 Murphy Oil 31,446.3 872.7
99 Philip Morris International 31,097.0 8,591.0
100 Nationwide 30,697.8 -793.1
Rank ▾ Company Revenues
($ millions)
Profits
($ millions)
101 Tesoro 29,927.0 546.0
102 3M 29,611.0 4,283.0
103 Time Warner 28,974.0 2,886.0
104 Northrop Grumman 28,058.0 2,118.0
105 DirecTV 27,226.0 2,609.0
106 Publix Super Markets 27,178.8 1,492.0
107 McDonald's 27,006.0 5,503.1
108 Avnet 26,534.4 669.1
109 Tech Data 26,488.1 206.4
110 Macy's 26,405.0 1,256.0
111 International Paper 26,034.0 1,341.0
112 Travelers Cos. 25,446.0 1,426.0
113 Rite Aid 25,214.9 -555.4
114 Staples 25,022.2 984.7
115 Alcoa 24,951.0 611.0
116 Northwestern Mutual 24,861.0 645.1
117 Raytheon 24,857.0 1,866.0
118 Halliburton 24,829.0 2,839.0
119 Eli Lilly 24,286.5 4,347.7
120 Emerson Electric 24,234.0 2,480.0
121 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance 24,226.4 877.4
122 Occidental Petroleum 24,216.0 6,771.0
123 AMR 23,979.0 -1,979.0
124 Fluor 23,381.4 593.7
125 TJX 23,191.5 1,496.1
126 Goodyear Tire & Rubber 22,767.0 343.0
127 Xerox 22,626.0 1,295.0
128 Aflac 22,171.0 1,964.0
129 Manpower 22,006.0 251.6
130 Cigna 21,998.0 1,327.0
131 Hartford Financial Services Group 21,918.0 662.0
132 U.S. Bancorp 21,399.0 4,872.0
133 Arrow Electronics 21,390.3 598.8
134 Bristol-Myers Squibb 21,244.0 3,709.0
135 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 20,880.0 4,560.0
136 Nike 20,862.0 2,133.0
137 Kimberly-Clark 20,846.0 1,591.0
138 Nucor 20,023.6 778.2
139 EMC 20,007.6 2,461.3
140 United States Steel 19,884.0 -53.0
141 Baker Hughes 19,831.0 1,739.0
142 Time Warner Cable 19,675.0 1,665.0
143 Union Pacific 19,557.0 3,292.0
144 United Services Automobile Assn. 19,036.1 2,128.3
145 Exelon 18,924.0 2,495.0
146 Kohl's 18,804.0 1,167.0
147 Whirlpool 18,666.0 390.0
148 Capital One Financial 18,525.0 3,147.0
149 Illinois Tool Works 18,256.8 2,071.4
150 Cummins 18,048.0 1,848.0
151 AES 17,759.0 58.0
152 Southern 17,657.0 2,203.0
153 J.C. Penney 17,260.0 -152.0
154 Apache 16,888.0 4,584.0
155 Colgate-Palmolive 16,734.0 2,431.0
156 Altria Group 16,619.0 3,390.0
157 Jabil Circuit 16,518.8 381.1
158 Danaher 16,476.4 2,172.3
159 Paccar 16,355.2 1,042.3
160 FirstEnergy 16,258.0 885.0
161 TRW Automotive Holdings 16,244.0 1,157.0
162 Computer Sciences 16,144.0 740.0
163 Eaton 16,049.0 1,350.0
164 Medtronic 15,933.0 3,096.0
165 PNC Financial Services Group 15,820.0 3,056.0
166 Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 15,804.0 2,516.0
167 Southwest Airlines 15,658.0 178.0
168 Amgen 15,582.0 3,683.0
169 Progressive 15,508.1 1,015.5
170 HollyFrontier 15,439.5 1,023.4
171 CenturyLink 15,351.0 573.0
172 NextEra Energy 15,341.0 1,923.0
173 Marathon Oil 15,282.0 2,946.0
174 L-3 Communications 15,169.0 956.0
175 Oneok 15,119.2 360.6
176 American Electric Power 15,116.0 1,941.0
177 Viacom 14,963.0 2,136.0
178 Qualcomm 14,962.0 4,260.0
179 PG&E Corp. 14,956.0 844.0
180 PPG Industries 14,885.0 1,095.0
181 General Mills 14,880.2 1,798.3
182 Global Partners 14,835.7 19.4
183 Dollar General 14,807.2 766.7
184 National Oilwell Varco 14,658.0 1,994.0
185 Gap 14,549.0 833.0
186 Duke Energy 14,529.0 1,706.0
187 Dominion Resources 14,379.0 1,408.0
188 CBS 14,245.0 1,305.0
189 Lear 14,156.5 540.7
190 Loews 14,127.0 1,064.0
191 DISH Network 14,048.4 1,515.9
192 Anadarko Petroleum 13,967.0 -2,649.0
193 Navistar International 13,958.0 1,723.0
194 Toys "R" Us 13,909.0 149.0
195 Baxter International 13,893.0 2,224.0
196 Omnicom Group 13,872.5 952.6
197 AutoNation 13,832.4 281.4
198 Community Health Systems 13,817.0 201.9
199 Constellation Energy 13,758.2 -340.3
200 Texas Instruments 13,735.0 2,236.0
Rank ▾ Company Revenues
($ millions)
Profits
($ millions)
201 Ally Financial 13,642.0 -157.0
202 Chubb 13,585.0 1,678.0
203 Waste Management 13,378.0 961.0
204 Aramark 13,244.7 100.1
205 Kellogg 13,198.0 1,231.0
206 Motorola Mobility Holdings 13,064.0 -249.0
207 Dean Foods 13,055.5 -1,575.6
208 US Airways Group 13,055.0 71.0
209 Consolidated Edison 12,938.0 1,051.0
210 Land O'Lakes 12,849.3 182.2
211 Edison International 12,760.0 -37.0
212 PPL 12,756.0 1,495.0
213 Yum Brands 12,626.0 1,319.0
214 Genuine Parts 12,458.9 565.1
215 ConAgra Foods 12,395.5 817.0
216 Parker Hannifin 12,345.9 1,049.1
217 Marriott International 12,317.0 198.0
218 Smithfield Foods 12,202.7 521.0
219 Coventry Health Care 12,186.7 543.1
220 Sara Lee 12,103.0 1,287.0
221 Health Net 11,901.0 72.1
222 Penske Automotive Group 11,869.5 176.9
223 Icahn Enterprises 11,855.0 750.0
224 Monsanto 11,822.0 1,607.0
225 Thermo Fisher Scientific 11,780.2 1,329.9
226 CSX 11,743.0 1,822.0
227 Starbucks 11,700.4 1,245.7
228 eBay 11,651.7 3,229.4
229 Chesapeake Energy 11,635.0 1,742.0
230 Liberty Interactive 11,624.0 912.0
231 Marsh & McLennan 11,526.0 993.0
232 Devon Energy 11,497.0 4,704.0
233 Office Depot 11,489.5 95.7
234 Avon Products 11,291.6 513.6
235 Aon 11,287.0 979.0
236 Textron 11,275.0 242.0
237 Huntsman 11,259.0 247.0
238 Praxair 11,252.0 1,672.0
239 Entergy 11,229.1 1,346.4
240 Public Service Enterprise Group 11,191.0 1,503.0
241 Norfolk Southern 11,172.0 1,916.0
242 Nordstrom 10,877.0 683.0
243 First Data 10,713.6 -516.1
244 H.J. Heinz 10,706.6 989.5
245 SAIC 10,657.0 59.0
246 Xcel Energy 10,654.8 841.2
247 Lincoln National 10,635.6 293.8
248 Ameriprise Financial 10,621.0 1,076.0
249 R.R. Donnelley & Sons 10,611.0 -122.6
250 Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America 10,571.3 209.9
251 Applied Materials 10,517.0 1,926.0
252 Stanley Black & Decker 10,437.6 674.6
253 Synnex 10,409.8 150.3
254 Jacobs Engineering Group 10,381.7 331.0
255 Peter Kiewit Sons' 10,381.0 573.0
256 Limited Brands 10,364.0 850.1
257 Newmont Mining 10,358.0 366.0
258 Genworth Financial 10,344.0 122.0
259 C.H. Robinson Worldwide 10,336.3 431.6
260 Unum Group 10,278.0 235.4
261 Liberty Global 10,246.5 -772.7
262 State Street Corp. 10,207.0 1,920.0
263 EOG Resources 10,126.1 1,091.1
264 Whole Foods Market 10,107.8 342.6
265 Air Products & Chemicals 10,082.0 1,224.2
266 Sempra Energy 10,036.0 1,357.0
267 BB&T Corp. 9,998.0 1,289.0
268 Mosaic 9,937.8 2,514.6
269 Automatic Data Processing 9,879.5 1,254.2
270 CDW 9,602.4 17.1
271 SunTrust Banks 9,602.0 647.0
272 Tenet Healthcare 9,601.0 82.0
273 GameStop 9,550.5 339.9
274 Motorola Solutions 9,549.0 1,158.0
275 URS 9,545.0 -465.8
276 Western Digital 9,526.0 726.0
277 VF 9,459.2 888.1
278 Las Vegas Sands 9,410.7 1,560.1
279 CarMax 9,402.2 380.9
280 KBR 9,261.0 480.0
281 Visa 9,188.0 3,650.0
282 Enbridge Energy Partners 9,109.8 624.0
283 BlackRock 9,081.0 2,337.0
284 NRG Energy 9,079.0 197.0
285 Western Refining 9,071.0 132.7
286 Progress Energy 8,907.0 575.0
287 DTE Energy 8,897.0 711.0
288 Caesars Entertainment 8,834.5 -687.6
289 Reinsurance Group of America 8,829.5 599.6
290 Estée Lauder 8,810.0 700.8
291 Micron Technology 8,788.0 167.0
292 AGCO 8,773.2 583.3
293 Sherwin-Williams 8,765.7 441.9
294 Bed Bath & Beyond 8,758.5 791.3
295 Principal Financial 8,709.6 715.0
296 Crown Holdings 8,644.0 282.0
297 Ball 8,630.9 444.0
298 Owens & Minor 8,627.9 115.2
299 Ross Stores 8,608.3 657.2
300 Discover Financial Services 8,550.3 2,226.7
Rank ▾ Company Revenues
($ millions)
Profits
($ millions)
301 Family Dollar Stores 8,547.8 388.4
302 Reynolds American 8,541.0 1,406.0
303 Henry Schein 8,530.2 367.7
304 Dover 8,501.9 895.2
305 CenterPoint Energy 8,450.0 1,357.0
306 Gilead Sciences 8,385.4 2,803.6
307 Ashland 8,370.0 414.0
308 Stryker 8,307.0 1,345.0
309 Hertz Global Holdings 8,298.4 176.2
310 Assurant 8,272.8 545.8
311 Kinder Morgan 8,264.9 594.4
312 Energy Transfer Equity 8,240.7 309.8
313 Autoliv 8,232.4 623.4
314 Republic Services 8,192.9 589.2
315 Reliance Steel & Aluminum 8,134.7 343.8
316 Peabody Energy 8,096.0 957.7
317 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea 8,078.5 -598.6
318 W.W. Grainger 8,078.2 658.4
319 Goodrich 8,074.9 810.4
320 AutoZone 8,073.0 849.0
321 Visteon 8,047.0 80.0
322 AECOM Technology 8,037.4 275.8
323 Steel Dynamics 7,997.5 278.1
324 Coca-Cola Enterprises 7,939.0 749.0
325 Williams 7,930.0 376.0
326 Commercial Metals 7,919.8 -129.6
327 Hormel Foods 7,895.1 474.2
328 Corning 7,890.0 2,805.0
329 TravelCenters of America 7,888.9 23.6
330 Sonic Automotive 7,871.3 76.3
331 MGM Resorts International 7,849.3 3,114.6
332 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans 7,842.8 454.6
333 Becton Dickinson 7,832.1 1,271.0
334 Campbell Soup 7,719.0 805.0
335 Boston Scientific 7,622.0 441.0
336 Dana Holding 7,592.0 219.0
337 Oshkosh 7,584.7 273.4
338 Masco 7,560.0 -575.0
339 Universal Health Services 7,534.1 398.2
340 Ameren 7,531.0 519.0
341 Quest Diagnostics 7,510.5 470.6
342 Darden Restaurants 7,500.2 476.3
343 Regions Financial 7,427.0 -215.0
344 Broadcom 7,389.0 927.0
345 Owens-Illinois 7,358.0 -510.0
346 Eastman Chemical 7,283.0 696.0
347 Pantry 7,271.8 9.8
348 Cablevision Systems 7,252.3 291.9
349 Dole Food 7,223.8 38.4
350 Tenneco 7,205.0 157.0
351 Charter Communications 7,204.0 -369.0
352 Spectrum Group International 7,203.4 3.8
353 Franklin Resources 7,140.0 1,923.6
354 OfficeMax 7,121.2 34.9
355 BorgWarner 7,114.7 550.1
356 Alpha Natural Resources 7,109.2 -677.4
357 Energy Future Holdings 7,040.0 -1,913.0
358 Interpublic Group 7,014.6 532.3
359 DaVita 6,998.9 478.0
360 Barnes & Noble 6,998.6 -73.9
361 Targa Resources 6,994.5 30.7
362 Cameron International 6,959.0 521.9
363 Winn-Dixie Stores 6,929.9 -70.1
364 Calpine 6,800.0 -190.0
365 Ecolab 6,798.5 462.5
366 Cliffs Natural Resources 6,794.3 1,619.1
367 Avery Dennison 6,786.7 190.1
368 Celanese 6,763.0 607.0
369 NII Holdings 6,719.3 198.8
370 MasterCard 6,714.0 1,906.0
371 Jarden 6,679.9 204.7
372 Fifth Third Bancorp 6,673.0 1,297.0
373 Dollar Tree 6,630.5 488.3
374 Weyerhaeuser 6,618.0 331.0
375 Agilent Technologies 6,615.0 1,012.0
376 Sanmina-SCI 6,602.4 68.9
377 NuStar Energy 6,575.3 221.5
378 Advanced Micro Devices 6,568.0 491.0
379 Terex 6,504.6 45.2
380 CMS Energy 6,503.0 415.0
381 AK Steel Holding 6,468.0 -155.6
382 American Family Insurance Group 6,400.2 295.2
383 Dillard's 6,399.8 463.9
384 McGraw-Hill 6,336.0 911.0
385 Amerigroup 6,318.4 195.6
386 Anixter International 6,270.1 188.2
387 Precision Castparts 6,267.2 1,013.5
388 Mattel 6,266.0 768.5
389 Omnicare 6,239.9 86.9
390 Corn Products International 6,219.4 415.7
391 Symantec 6,190.0 597.0
392 Advance Auto Parts 6,170.5 394.7
393 Core-Mark Holding 6,163.4 26.2
394 CC Media Holdings 6,161.4 -302.1
395 Expeditors International of Washington 6,150.5 385.7
396 Mylan 6,129.8 536.8
397 Wesco International 6,125.7 196.3
398 Cognizant Technology Solutions 6,121.2 883.6
399 Consol Energy 6,117.2 632.5
400 PetSmart 6,113.3 290.2
Rank ▾ Company Revenues
($ millions)
Profits
($ millions)
401 WellCare Health Plans 6,106.9 264.2
402 CF Industries Holdings 6,097.9 1,539.2
403 UGI 6,091.3 232.9
404 Hershey 6,080.8 629.0
405 Group 1 Automotive 6,079.8 82.4
406 MeadWestvaco 6,079.0 246.0
407 Ryder System 6,050.5 169.8
408 Eastman Kodak 6,022.0 -764.0
409 NiSource 6,019.1 299.1
410 Rockwell Automation 6,000.4 697.8
411 Mutual of Omaha Insurance 5,974.1 130.0
412 Shaw Group 5,937.7 -175.0
413 Harris 5,924.6 588.0
414 Newell Rubbermaid 5,923.4 125.2
415 Pepco Holdings 5,920.0 257.0
416 CBRE Group 5,912.1 239.2
417 Dr Pepper Snapple Group 5,903.0 606.0
418 Avis Budget Group 5,900.0 -29.0
419 PVH 5,890.6 317.9
420 Pacific Life 5,879.0 679.0
421 General Cable 5,866.7 84.1
422 Exelis 5,839.0 326.0
423 Health Management Associates 5,822.1 178.7
424 O'Reilly Automotive 5,788.8 507.7
425 Fidelity National Information Services 5,757.4 469.6
426 SLM 5,756.0 633.0
427 Seaboard 5,746.9 345.8
428 Emcor Group 5,731.7 130.8
429 Auto-Owners Insurance 5,709.5 69.1
430 SanDisk 5,662.1 987.0
431 Ralph Lauren 5,660.3 567.6
432 Mohawk Industries 5,642.3 173.9
433 Sealed Air 5,640.9 149.1
434 Starwood Hotels & Resorts 5,624.0 489.0
435 Foot Locker 5,623.0 278.0
436 Domtar 5,612.0 365.0
437 St. Jude Medical 5,611.7 825.8
438 Spectra Energy 5,602.0 1,184.0
439 Booz Allen Hamilton Holding 5,591.3 84.7
440 CH2M Hill 5,555.2 113.3
441 Kelly Services 5,551.0 63.7
442 Avaya 5,547.0 -863.0
443 Laboratory Corp. of America 5,542.3 519.7
444 Kindred Healthcare 5,523.3 -53.5
445 Western Union 5,491.4 1,165.4
446 SPX 5,461.9 180.6
447 NCR 5,443.0 53.0
448 Allergan 5,419.1 934.5
449 Rock-Tenn 5,399.6 141.1
450 Live Nation Entertainment 5,384.0 -83.0
451 Graybar Electric 5,374.8 81.4
452 Momentive Specialty Chemicals 5,352.0 118.0
453 Centene 5,340.6 111.2
454 Owens Corning 5,335.0 276.0
455 Catalyst Health Solutions 5,329.6 67.0
456 Clorox 5,326.0 557.0
457 Bemis 5,322.7 184.1
458 Harley-Davidson 5,311.7 599.1
459 Con-way 5,290.0 88.4
460 Insight Enterprises 5,287.2 100.2
461 Pitney Bowes 5,278.0 617.5
462 Wynn Resorts 5,269.8 613.4
463 BrightPoint 5,244.4 48.8
464 Frontier Communications 5,243.0 149.6
465 Gannett 5,240.0 458.7
466 Dick's Sporting Goods 5,211.8 263.9
467 Big Lots 5,202.3 207.1
468 Allegheny Technologies 5,183.0 214.3
469 Telephone & Data Systems 5,180.5 200.6
470 Timken 5,170.2 454.3
471 W.R. Berkley 5,156.0 394.8
472 Fidelity National Financial 5,153.7 369.5
473 Casey's General Stores 5,140.2 94.6
474 NetApp 5,122.6 673.1
475 FMC Technologies 5,099.0 399.8
476 Biogen Idec 5,048.6 1,234.4
477 CVR Energy 5,029.1 345.8
478 United Stationers 5,005.5 109.0
479 Host Hotels & Resorts 5,003.0 -15.0
480 SunGard Data Systems 4,991.0 -149.0
481 Meritor 4,990.0 63.0
482 Western & Southern Financial Group 4,986.4 450.4
483 Yahoo 4,984.2 1,048.8
484 Vanguard Health Systems 4,895.9 -10.9
485 Charles Schwab 4,884.0 864.0
486 Susser Holdings 4,873.8 47.5
487 YRC Worldwide 4,868.8 -351.3
488 El Paso 4,860.0 141.0
489 CIT Group 4,855.3 26.7
490 MetroPCS Communications 4,847.4 301.3
491 Alliant Techsystems 4,842.3 313.2
492 Celgene 4,842.1 1,318.2
493 MRC Global 4,832.4 29.0
494 Aleris 4,826.4 161.6
495 J.M. Smucker 4,825.7 479.5
496 Rockwell Collins 4,825.0 634.0
497 Erie Insurance Group 4,824.0 169.0
498 Nash-Finch 4,807.2 35.8
499 KeyCorp 4,780.0 920.0
500 Molina Healthcare 4,769.9 20.8





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