The list of the world's top 500 2018 has just come out. Do you know anyone? On the evening of July 19, Beijing time, fortune Chinese and the world released the fortune 2018 World Top 500 list of the United States simultaneously. The top 10 companies in 2018 are Wal Mart, State Grid, Sinopec, PetroChina, shell, Toyota, Volkswagen, BP, ExxonMobil and Berkshire & middot; Hathaway.
Wal Mart (88.07, 0.00, 0.00%) has become the world's largest company for the fifth consecutive year. It continues to rank in the top four with three Chinese Enterprises -- State Grid, Sinopec (89.84, 0.00, 0.00%) and PetroChina, with no change in ranking. Shell oil (68.9, 0.00, 0.00%) rose to fifth place, pushing Toyota Motor (132.09, 0.00, 0.00%) to sixth place.
Apple (190.4, 0.00, 0.00%) is still at the top of the profit list, followed by British American Tobacco (50.15, 0.00, 0.00%) which re entered the Fortune 500 this year. The four Chinese companies in the top 10 of the profit list are still the four largest banks in China Construction and agriculture Corporation.
Boeing ranks first on the list of return on net assets, while Tencent, Biguiyuan, Huawei, Midea and TSMC (38.41, 0.00, 0.00%) rank first among Chinese companies.
In this year's top 500 list, British American Tobacco Group has the highest profit margin, with a profit margin of 185%, far higher than kafheinz, the second. Among mainland Chinese companies, Tencent Holding Co., Ltd. has the highest profit margin, more than 30%.
In terms of ranking changes, China's national energy investment group has risen the fastest this year, jumping 175 places. It is worth mentioning that eight of the top ten companies that jumped the fastest are from mainland China. Except for national energy investment group, the other seven are Alibaba (190.79, 0.00, 0.00%) (up 162), Tencent (up 147), Shandong energy group (up 138), Xiamen International Trade (up 134), Midea (up 127), Xiamen Jianfa (up 126), and Country Garden (up 1) 14).
In terms of industry, the rankings of all Internet service companies have been greatly improved. They are JD (37.53, 0.00, 0.00%), Alibaba, Tencent, Amazon (1842.92, 0.00, 0.00%), Google (1195.88, 0.00, 0.00%) parent company alphabet and social media giant Facebook (209.36, 0.00, 0.00%). All the listed real estate companies are from China.
In this year's auto manufacturing sector, there are seven companies on the list in China, with only general motors (39.87, 0.00, 0.00%) and Ford in the United States. Geely is the only private car company on the list in mainland China. In the past year, the company has crossed the threshold of one million sales volume, ranking first in the domestic industry in terms of sales growth and the leaping range of the top 500.
In terms of the number of listed companies, this year there are 120 Chinese companies, which are very close to the United States (126), far more than the third place Japan (52). No other country has seen such a rapid growth in the number of enterprises since the Fortune 500 list in 1995 covered both industrial enterprises and service enterprises.
However, the adjustment of industrial structure of Chinese enterprises is obviously facing great challenges. As a reference, in 2018, there were no real estate, engineering construction and metal smelting enterprises in the United States, but there were many large companies in it, life health and food related fields; China just formed a contrast with this. Especially in health / food wholesale, insurance management medicine, food production and processing, entertainment and other industries closely related to people's life and health, there are companies from the United States and Europe, Japan, Brazil and other countries, but China has no enterprises on the list.
In addition, the problem of China's banking industry using monopoly position to obtain excess profits has not been solved. The eight banks on the US list made an average profit of $9.6 billion. The average profit of 10 Chinese banks is as high as 17.9 billion US dollars, far higher than the profit level of all listed Chinese companies (3.1 billion US dollars). The total profits of these ten banks account for 50.7% of the total profits of 111 listed companies in mainland China; by contrast, the total profits of Bank of America (30.13, 0.00, 0.00%) only account for 11.7% of the total profits of 126 listed companies in the United States.
There are 111 enterprises in mainland China (including Hong Kong, excluding Taiwan). 13 Chinese companies were listed for the first time: China Merchants Group, cedar holdings, Xiangyu Group, Yankuang Group, Angang Group, Shougang Group, Weichuang group, Taiwan Zhongyou, China Taiping Insurance Group, Fubang Financial Holdings, Taikang Insurance Group, Henan energy chemical group, Qingdao Haier. The industry with the largest number of new listed companies is insurance (3). Qingdao Haier is the only new listed company in the electronics and electronic equipment industry in China.