Absolute Profits
Companies ranked by total income after taxes in 1996.
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Rank Company 1996 income (millions) 1 Intel Corp. $6,246 2 BankAmerica Corp. 2,933 3 Hewlett-Packard Co. 2,708 4 Chevron Corp. 2,607 5 Atlantic Richfield Co. 1,768 6 Walt Disney Co. 1,466 7 Wells Fargo & Co. 1,146 8 Cisco Systems Inc. 1,042 9 Edison International 730 10 Oracle Corp. 728 11 Amgen Inc. 717 12 Occidental Petroleum Corp. 713 13 Seagate Technology Inc. 700 14 PG&E; Corp. 667 15 Sun Microsystems Inc. 648 16 Rockwell Intl. Corp. 582 17 Safeway Inc. 487 18 Applied Materials 458 19 Transamerica Corp. 456 20 Unocal Corp. 456 21 Gap Inc. 453 22 Golden West Financial 378 23 Mattel Inc. 378 24 Franklin Resources 337 25 3Com Corp. 314 26 SunAmerica Inc. 290 27 Fluor Corp. 273 28 Countrywide Credit Industries 257 29 Charles Schwab Corp. 254 30 UnionBanCal Corp. 249 31 Northrop Grumman Corp. 248 32 Raychem Corp. 242 33 Enova Corp. 238 34 Clorox Co., The 235 35 Western Digital Corp. 212 36 Times Mirror Co. 206 37 Pacific Enterprises 203 38 WellPoint Health Networks 202 39 AirTouch Communications 199 40 Atmel Corp. 196 41 H.F. Ahmanson & Co. 184 42 Avery Dennison Corp. 176 43 Adobe Systems Inc. 166 44 Computer Sciences Corp. 164 45 Hilton Hotels Corp. 161 46 PMI Group Inc. 158 47 Litton Industries Inc. 157 48 Public Storage Inc. 154 49 LSI Logic Corp. 144 50 Thermo Instrument Systems 138 51 Maxim Integrated Products 134 52 Linear Technology Corp. 128 53 Solectron Corp. 128 54 Ascend Communications 127 55 Western Atlas Inc. 126 56 Callaway Golf Co. 122 57 Xilinx Inc. 114 58 Ingram Micro Inc. 112 59 Altera Corp. 112 60 Genentech Inc. 112 61 Great Western Fin. Corp. 110 62 Tenet Healthcare Corp. 109 63 Dura Pharmaceuticals 108 64 Mercury General Corp. 106 65 Adaptec Inc. 102 66 Dole Food Co. 101 67 KLA Instruments Corp. 101 68 Komag Inc. 101 69 ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc. 100 70 Informix Corp. 98 71 Varian Associates Inc. 94 72 BRE Properties Inc. 93 73 ALZA Corp. 92 74 Pimco Advisors 91 75 Fremont General Corp. 87 76 Novellus Systems Inc. 84 77 Imperial Credit Industries 82 78 Fleetwood Enterprises 82 79 Ross Stores Inc. 81 80 Consolidated Freightways 80 81 Bergen Brunswig Corp. 76 82 PacifiCare Health Systems 76 83 20th Century Industries 75 84 Beckman Instruments Inc. 75 85 Foundation Health Systems 74 86 Watson Pharmaceuticals 73 87 Allergan Inc. 71 88 Spieker Properties Inc. 70 89 Electronics for Imaging 70 90 APL Limited 69 91 CWM Mortgage Holdings Inc. 69 92 City National Corp. 69 93 Viking Office Products 67 94 Health Care Property 65 95 Hambrecht & Quist Group 64 96 Potlatch Corp. 63 97 Imperial Bancorp 62 98 Tencor Instruments 61 99 Robert Half International Inc. 61 100 HMT Technology Corp. 61
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