In May 6, 2013, the "Fortune" was officially released the latest U.S. Top 500, Wal-Mart return to the top of the income of 469.16 billion dollars, oil giant, Exxon Mobil ranked second for the revenue of 449.88 billion dollars. The Facebook ranked 482 for the first time this year. The old Internet Co Yahoo! Into the reciprocal camp, ranked 494th.
Apple, whose product is still hot in the world, ranking continued to rise, Apple jumped from 17 to 6, among the top 10 ranks in the top 500 in the U.S. for the first time. Apple last year achieved operating income of 156.5 billion dollars, an increase of 44.6% over the previous year. Profit rose 61% to 41.73 billion dollars.
Overall, however, the U.S. economy in 2012 entered a long period of low growth stage, the 500 standings company's total revenue reached 12.06 trillion dollars, an increase of only 2.7% over the previous year. The total number of employees increased 2.3% to 2640 million people. But total profit fell 0.5%, totaling 820.3 billion dollars.
