List of largest Brazilian companies
This article lists the largest companies of Brazil in terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes.
2019 Fortune list
This list displays all 8 Brazilian companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2018.[1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
| Rank | Fortune 500 rank |
Name | Industry | Revenue (USD millions) |
Profits (USD millions) |
Employees | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 | Petrobras | Oil and Gas | 95,584 | 7,173 | 63,361 | Rio de Janeiro |
| 2 | 191 | Banco Itaú Unibanco | Banking | 54,662 | 6,815 | 100,335 | São Paulo |
| 3 | 219 | JBS S.A. | Food production | 49,709 | 6.9 | 230,086 | São Paulo |
| 4 | 221 | Banco Bradesco | Banking | 49,612 | 4,538 | 86,772 | Osasco |
| 5 | 269 | Banco do Brasil | Banking | 43,333 | 3,783 | 96,889 | Brasília |
| 6 | 305 | Caixa Econômica Federal | Finance | 40,240 | 2,833 | 84,952 | Brasília |
| 7 | 336 | Vale | Mining | 36,696 | 6,860 | 70,270 | Rio de Janeiro |
| 8 | 499 | Ultrapar | Conglomerate | 24,816 | 315 | 17,034 | São Paulo |
2019 Forbes list
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies. The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking. The table below also lists the headquarters location and industry sector of each company. The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2018. All 20 companies from Brazil in the Forbes 2000 are listed.[2]
| Rank | Forbes 2000 rank |
Name | Headquarters | Revenue (billions US$) |
Profit (billions US$) |
Assets (billions US$) |
Value (billions US$) |
Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | Petrobras | Rio de Janeiro | 95.7 | 7.1 | 222.0 | 91.2 | Oil and Gas |
| 2 | 58 | Banco Itaú Unibanco | São Paulo | 53.8 | 6.8 | 383.2 | 80.8 | Banking |
| 3 | 96 | Banco Bradesco | Osasco | 62.6 | 5.2 | 332.1 | 70.7 | Banking |
| 4 | 139 | Vale | Rio de Janeiro | 36.8 | 7.0 | 88.2 | 68.3 | Mining |
| 5 | 154 | Banco do Brasil | Brasília | 42.0 | 3.8 | 368.4 | 34.5 | Banking |
| 6 | 657 | Eletrobras | Rio de Janeiro | 6.9 | 3.6 | 46.8 | 11.1 | Utilities |
| 7 | 825 | JBS S.A. | São Paulo | 49.7 | 0.0 | 29.5 | 12.3 | Food production |
| 8 | 859 | Itaúsa | São Paulo | 1.6 | 2.6 | 16.3 | 24.7 | Conglomerate |
| 9 | 912 | Braskem | São Paulo | 15.9 | 0.8 | 15.3 | 9.7 | Oil and Gas |
| 10 | 1089 | Oi | Rio de Janeiro | 6.0 | 6.7 | 16.9 | 2.5 | Telecommunications |
| 11 | 1429 | Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional | São Paulo | 6.3 | 1.4 | 12.2 | 5.3 | Steel |
| 12 | 1478 | Cielo S.A. | Barueri | 3.2 | 0.9 | 21.3 | 5.7 | Finance |
| 13 | 1486 | B3 | São Paulo | 1.3 | 0.6 | 10.1 | 16.5 | Finance |
| 14 | 1546 | CPFL Energia | Campinas | 8.2 | 0.5 | 11.2 | 7.4 | Utilities |
| 15 | 1647 | Ultrapar | São Paulo | 24.8 | 0.3 | 7.9 | 6.2 | Conglomerate |
| 16 | 1660 | GPA | São Paulo | 13.5 | 0.3 | 13.6 | 6.3 | Retail |
| 17 | 1736 | Metalurgica Gerdau | Porto Alegre | 12.6 | 0.2 | 13.2 | 1.8 | Steel |
| 18 | 1799 | Suzano Papel e Celulose | Salvador | 3.7 | 0.1 | 13.9 | 14.0 | Pulp and paper |
| 19 | 1836 | CEMIG | Belo Horizonte | 6.1 | 0.5 | 15.4 | 6.1 | Utilities |
| 20 | 1865 | Sabesp | São Paulo | 4.4 | 0.8 | 11.2 | 7.2 | Waste management |
References
- "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- "The World's Largest Public Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-07-25.