Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations

States
State
Rank ▾
Company Fortune 500 rank City Revenues
($ millions)
1 UnitedHealth Group 22 Minnetonka 101,862.0
2 Target 38 Minneapolis 69,865.0
3 Best Buy 53 Richfield 50,272.0
4 Supervalu 75 Eden Prairie 37,534.0
5 CHS 78 Inver Grove Heights 36,915.8
6 3M 102 St. Paul 29,611.0
7 U.S. Bancorp 132 Minneapolis 21,399.0
8 Medtronic 164 Minneapolis 15,933.0
9 General Mills 181 Minneapolis 14,880.2
10 Land O'Lakes 210 Arden Hills 12,849.3
11 Xcel Energy 246 Minneapolis 10,654.8
12 Ameriprise Financial 248 Minneapolis 10,621.0
13 C.H. Robinson Worldwide 259 Eden Prairie 10,336.3
14 Mosaic 268 Plymouth 9,937.8
15 Hormel Foods 327 Austin 7,895.1
16 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans 332 Minneapolis 7,842.8
17 Ecolab 365 St. Paul 6,798.5
18 St. Jude Medical 437 St. Paul 5,611.7
19 Nash-Finch 498 Minneapolis 4,807.2
Issue date: May 21, 2012
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California 53
Texas 52
New York 50
Company Rank
Google 73
NetApp 474
NuStar Energy 377
Company 2011 $ (millions)
Exxon $41,060.0
Chevron $26,895.0
Apple $25,922.0
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