Top Earning Companies in the World

This post was originally published in 2009 – back then offline businesses still led the way in terms of profits, but things have changed a lot in last few years as you will see if you check out: Top Earning Websites

Top 30 earning companies in the world

First Point To make…

Running a website instead of a traditional company can be a lot better in so many ways.

For example:

No physical products
No physical location
Can work from anywhere in the world
You don’t need customers
Can be automated
Outsource everything
The 9 – 5 doesn’t exist, this post was published while I was in bed!
You have no one barking orders at you.

With that in mind, the benefits of having a traditional business over a web business are second to none. When I compare the top earning company and the top earning website, the difference is clear! Wal-Mart are on course to earn $400,000,000,000 this year with profit under $14,000,000,000 compared to Googles $21,000,000,000 in 2008 with a profit of $4,200,000,000 – making Google more than 5 times more profitable!

Wal-Mart Stores Earn $12,011.64 a Second!

Rank	Company	Industry	Founders	Revenue Per Year	Revenue Per Second
1	Wal-Mart Stores	General Merchandisers	Sam Walton	$378,799,000,000	$12,011.64
2	Exxon Mobil	Petroleum Refining	John D. Rockefeller	$372,824,000,000	$11,822.17
3	Royal Dutch Shell	Petroleum Refining	Jean Baptiste August Kessler	$355,782,000,000	$11,281.77
4	BP	Petroleum Refining	T. Boone Pickens	$291,438,000,000	$9,241.44
5	Toyota Motor	Motor Vehicles and Parts	Kiichiro Toyoda	$230,201,000,000	$7,299.63
6	Chevron	Petroleum Refining	Lyman Stewar	$210,783,000,000	$6,683.89
7	ING Group	Banks: Commercial and Savings	Jan Hommen	$201,516,000,000	$6,390.03
8	Total	Petroleum Refining	Ernest Mercier	$187,280,000,000	$5,938.61
9	General Motors	Motor Vehicles and Parts	William C. Durant	$182,347,000,000	$5,782.19
10	ConocoPhillips	Petroleum Refining	Frank and L.E. Phillips	$178,558,000,000	$5,662.04
11	Daimler	Motor Vehicles and Parts	Gottlieb Daimler.	$177,167,000,000	$5,617.93
12	General Electric	Diversified Financials	Thomas Edison	$176,656,000,000	$5,601.73
13	Ford Motor	Motor Vehicles and Parts	Henry Ford	$172,468,000,000	$5,468.92
14	Fortis	Banks: Commercial and Savings	Kira Bruno	$164,877,000,000	$5,228.22
15	AXA	Insurance: Life, Health (stock)	Claude Bébéar	$162,762,000,000	$5,161.15
16	Sinopec	Petroleum Refining	Su Shulin	$159,260,000,000	$5,050.10
17	Citigroup	Banks: Commercial and Savings	Bill Smith	$159,229,000,000	$5,049.12
18	Volkswagen	Motor Vehicles and Parts	Ferdinand Porsche	$149,054,000,000	$4,726.47
19	Dexia Group	Banks: Commercial and Savings	Michael Wilson	$147,648,000,000	$4,681.89
20	HSBC Holdings	Banks: Commercial and Savings	Thomas Sutherland	$146,500,000,000	$4,645.49
21	BNP Paribas	Banks: Commercial and Savings	Louis Pasteu	$140,726,000,000	$4,462.39
22	Allianz	Insurance: Property and Casualty	Henning Schulte-Noelle	$140,618,000,000	$4,458.97
23	Crédit Agricole	Banks: Commercial and Savings	Henri Germain	$138,155,000,000	$4,380.87
24	State Grid	Utilities	Liu Zhenya	$132,885,000,000	$4,213.76
25	China National Petroleum	Petroleum Refining	Chinese National Government	$129,798,000,000	$4,115.87
26	Deutsche Bank	Banks: Commercial and Savings	Georg Siemens	$122,644,000,000	$3,889.02
27	ENI	Petroleum Refining	Tully Ryan	$120,565,000,000	$3,823.09
28	Bank of America Corp.	Banks: Commercial and Savings	Madeo Giannini	$119,190,000,000	$3,779.49
29	AT&T	Telecommunications	Alexander Graham Bell	$118,928,000,000	$3,771.18
30	Berkshire Hathaway	Insurance: Property and Casualty (stock)	Oliver Chace	$118,245,000,000	$3,749.52