Largest US companies by revenue
Revenue is the broadest measure of a company's size: what customers paid it in its latest fiscal year, before any costs. Amazon leads with $716.9bn in fiscal 2025. The top 100 of 4,184 companies with a figure on file.
Would buying this list have paid?
Buying the top 100 companies by revenue, as the list stood each quarter since March 31, 2010, would have returned +15.0% a year against +14.0% for the S&P 500. It beat the index, but not by enough, consistently enough, to rule out luck.
| Return a year | Typical yearly swing | Sharpe ratio | Biggest drop | Moves with market (beta) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 100 by revenue | +15.0% | 15.3% | 0.91 | -25.7% | 0.93 |
| S&P 500, buy and hold | +14.0% | 15.1% | 0.87 | -23.9% | 1.00 |
- Ahead of the S&P 500 in 50.0% of 66 quarters.
- Extra return after allowing for market risk (alpha): +1.8% a year No reliable evidence t = 1.06
- Against the S&P 500: +1.4% a year in 2010–2017, +0.5% in 2018–2026.
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