What are the top 5 American companies with higher profit than the others & how much they should pay as tax?
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search from google search engine. go to :\n\nhttp://www.google.co.uk/
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Based on CNNMoney.com, they listed the following companies as the best companies to work for.\n\n1) Genentech\n2) Wegmans\n3) Valero Energy\n4) Griffin Hospital\n5) W.L. Gore\n6) Container Store\n7) Vision Service Plan\n8) J.M. Smucker\n9) REI\n10) S.C. Johnson & Son\n\nI'd start with those companies or narrow it down to companies on the top 100 list in places where I wouldn't mind living. All major companies look for business degrees leaving the door open to an extremely broad scope of opportunities. Find out what interests you most (Industrial, Finance, Software, etc.) and go from there. I have attached a link to the article I got those companies from. The Fortune 100 company I work for didn't make that list. :-(
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Well, here are the top 55 companies for 2005.  (It's a start!)  :D
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Corporate tax frauds. They even do that when most don't even pay taxes! Oh, they can write off fines paid to the US Government.!\n\nHere is A through H  You tell me?\n\nABB\n\n \n\nABB Vetco Gray\nABB Vetko UK\n 2004\n $5,900,000\n\n \n\n$10,500,00\n "Swiss engineering company ABB Ltd. and two of its subsidiaries agreed Tuesday to pay a total of $16.4 million to settle U.S. criminal and civil charges alleging they bribed government officials in Nigeria, Angola and Kazakhstan. The company paid more than $1.1 million through U.S.-based and foreign subsidiaries for the purpose of "obtaining and retaining business," federal officials claimed. U.S. authorities said ABB settled a civil suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by agreeing to pay $5.9 million in "disgorgement and prejudgment interest" to the Securities and Exchange Commission and change its business practices. SEC officials said ABB notified the government of the violations and cooperated in the investigation. Simultaneously, subsidiaries ABB Vetco Gray, based in Houston, and ABB Vetco UK, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, appeared in U.S. District Court in Houston and agreed to pay a total fine of $10.5 million, the Department of Justice said. The fines came after each company was convicted of two counts of violating the bribery section of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act." (Feds fine ABB $16M in bribery case, By Leticia Williams, CBS.MarketWatch.com, July 6, 2004).\n \nAbbott Laboratories\n 1999\n $100,000,000\n "[R]ecord fine of $100 million to the Food and Drug Administration to settle a long-running investigation into the company's manufacturing plant in Lake County, Ill. Abbott also agreed to remove 125 products from the market and stop making them. (Abbott to Pay $622 Million to Settle Inquiry Into Marketing, By Gardiner Harris, New York Times, June 27, 2003).\n \nAbbott Laboratories\n 2003\n $622,000,000\n "Abbott Laboratories said yesterday that it planned to pay $622 million to settle an investigation into sales practices for liquids needed to feed the seriously ill. The company said in a statement that it would take a charge of 34 cents a share in the second quarter to cover a settlement of a "previously disclosed civil and criminal investigation" of its Ross Products division. Abbott earned $592.3 million, or 38 cents a share, in the second quarter of last year. Melissa Brotz, an Abbott spokeswoman, declined yesterday to discuss details of the investigation, which was disclosed in August 2001. At the time, news reports described it as focusing on marketing tactics in which the company gave tubes and pumps used to deliver liquid food directly into patients' digestive tracts in exchange for large orders of the liquids. Some of the hospitals and nursing homes that received the free equipment were suspected of billing Medicaid and Medicare, the government health insurance programs for the poor and the elderly, for the tubes and pumps, according to the reports." (Abbott to Pay $622 Million to Settle Inquiry Into Marketing, By Gardiner Harris, New York Times, June 27, 2003).\nOn Oct. 3, 2001, TAP Pharmaceutical Products, a joint venture of Abbott and Tadeka Chemical Industries, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and paid $875 million - still the record for a health fraud fine - to settle accusations related to its marketing of the cancer drug Lupron. TAP was accused of giving Lupron to doctors who the company knew would bill Medicaid and Medicare for the cost of the drug. SEE TAP PHARMACEUTICAL.\n \nAbbott Laboratories\n 2005\n $18,000,000\n "Abbott Laboratories and Geneva Pharmaceuticals Inc. have agreed to a $30.7 million nationwide settlement to refund customers and third-party payers in 18 states who claimed that the two companies had conspired to engage in anticompetitive conduct selling a drug that treats hypertension and enlarged prostate. The settlement agreement,
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I don't know if there is a list somewhere, but Microsoft and Cisco are the two companies I know that are generating cash every quarter. Last time I checked, Cisco was generating over $1 Billion in cash every quarter.
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Annual ranking of a company by revenue.
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I would suggest Dennis Koslowski from Tyco. You may bave hear about this in the news, how he bilked his company for millions of dollars in personal expenses. The story is very interesting and there is lots of information available. The links below should get you started.
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When you analyze a company, you should take the following into consideration:\n1.  Are their gross revenues going up or down faster than competition.\nIf it's going up, what is causing it?  Better marketing?  Territory expansion?  New products?  Better distribution system?\n2.  Are their gross margins going up or down and is there gross margin comparable to their competitors\nThis addresses the question whether this company is producing their products at the least cost possible - efficiently.\n3.  What is their market share?  Is it going up or down?\n4.  What does Wall Street think of the company.  \nIs the yield of their stocks (I think it's earnings per share divided by current selling price of their stock) higher than their competitors or lower or comparable.
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The most fool proof is t-bills.  About 5% return.  But with inflation running at 4%, it is not much of a return.  Then after taxes, you will probably find yourself in the hole.  That is one of the best money making strategies of the U S government, tax inflation.
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TOTAL COMPANY\n    2005 INCOME FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS COMPARED WITH NET INCOME*\n\n\n                                  Fourth Quarter              Full Year\n                             Earnings  After-          Earnings After-\n                                 Per     Tax  Pre-Tax   Per       Tax  Pre-Tax\n                               Share*  Profit  Profit  Share*   Profit  Profit\n                                       (Mils.) (Mils.)         (Mils.) (Mils.)\n\n    Income from Cont. Ops.\n    Excluding Special Items     $0.26   $511     $869   $1.28 $2,516   $3,374\n\n    Special Items\n     - Jaguar/Land Rover\n        Impairment             $(0.39) $(845) $(1,300) $(0.40) $(845) $(1,300)\n     - Personnel Reduction\n        Programs                (0.29)  (626)    (962)  (0.37)  (791)  (1,216)\n     - Visteon Related\n        Charges**                 ***      6       39   (0.22)  (458)    (468)\n     - Fuel Cell Technology\n        Charges                   ***     (2)       0   (0.05)  (108)    (116)\n     - Sale of Non-Core\n        Businesses                ***      6        6    0.06    123      107\n     - Tax Adjustments****       0.12    252        0    0.30    639       85\n     - Hertz Sale*****           0.50  1,071    1,405    0.53  1,126    1,489\n    Total Special Items        $(0.06) $(138)   $(812) $(0.15) $(314) $(1,419)\n\n    Income from Cont. Ops.      $0.20   $373      $57   $1.13 $2,202   $1,955\n\n    Disc. Operations              ***      2             0.02     47\n    Cumulative Change in\n    Accounting Principles\n     - FIN 47 - Asset\n        Retirement Obligations  (0.12)  (251)           (0.11)  (251)\n          Net Income            $0.08   $124            $1.04 $1,998\n\n    *     Earnings per share from continuing operations is calculated on a\n          basis that includes pre-tax profit, provision for taxes, and\n          minority interest; additional information regarding the method of\n          calculating earnings per share is available in the materials\n          supporting the Jan. 23, 2006, conference calls at\n          http://www.shareholder.ford.com.\n    **    See materials supporting the Jan. 23, 2006, conference calls at\n          http://www.shareholder.ford.com for further detail on Visteon\n    ***   Less than $0.01\n    ****  Primarily reflects prior year federal and state tax settlements and\n          tax savings from repatriation of foreign earnings pursuant to the\n          American Jobs Creation Act of 2004\n    ***** See materials supporting the Jan. 23, 2006, conference calls at\n          http://www.shareholder.ford.com for further detail on impact of\n          Hertz sale\n\n\n                     FORD MOTOR COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES\n\n                       CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME\n               For the Periods Ended December 31, 2005 and 2004\n                   (in millions, except per share amounts)\n\n                                      Fourth Quarter           Full Year\n                                     2005       2004        2005       2004\n                                       (Unaudited)      (Unaudited)\n    Sales and revenues\n    Automotive sales               $41,823    $38,870    $154,515    $147,128\n    Financial Services revenues      5,738      6,059      23,586      24,518\n      Total sales and revenues      47,561     44,929     178,101     171,646\n\n    Costs and expenses\n    Cost of sales                   40,184     37,218     145,987     135,852\n    Selling, administrative and\n     other expenses                  6,455      6,468      24,651      23,901\n    Interest expense                 1,984      1,635       7,643       7,071\n    Financial Services provision\n     for credit and insurance losses   133        359         483       1,212\n      Total costs and expenses      48,756     45,680     178,764     168,036\n\n    Automotive interest income and\n     other non-operating\n     income/(expense),
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That's Crazy for one company to make that much in profits over one Country.
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As long as they are publically traded - the bottom line is always the bottom line. GHI - in New York is one of the few remaining not for profit insurance folks out there. Deregulation and public status are why insurance costs are sky high, nothing else.
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1. California\n2. 40\n3. Oprah winfery\n4. Pythagorian Therum\n5. Chevrolet\n6. Taxation without representation\n\n...next?
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Fortune Magazine rates the top 500 companies in the U.S. using a variety of tests.  These are the top 500 companies
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Neither a high nor a low p/e ratio is technically better than another.  Currently, Google is trading at a P/E ratio of 104.94, which is pretty high.  Microsoft is trading at a P/E ratio of 23.1 which is pretty stable, Yahoo is trading at a P/E ratio of 39.18.  \n\nTypically a company will have a higher P/E ratio when the public expects big things in the future, and a lower P/E ratio, when expectations are not as high and their earnings have become more stable. This is certainly not a bad thing at all, this just means that the public is valuing this company like it can depend on their future earnings, it has a lower P/E because people have decided that they feel confident about what the future earnings will be.  \n\nYou may have heard the term that a stock is "cheap" right now, and that could be because it is an established company, that has historically traded at a P/E ratio of 25, and then, for seemingly no good reason, it is currently trading at 15.  Many experts think this is the case right now with many big dependable stocks, because they feel people may be over-valuing and expecting too much from many small company stocks.  \n\nSo unfortunately there is no short answer, it is relative to other companies in the same industry at the same point in time, and it is relative to the company's prior P/E ratio.  Also, it depends on your risk aversion, a stock with a very high P/E ratio may be more risky than a stock with a lower, and a more dependable, P/E ratio. If they have a high P/E ratio, that means that today's value is based on the fact that the trading public expect big things from this company in the future, and if those big things don't happen (dot.com bust comes to mind) then the stock prices will depreciate as a result of not meeting those high expectations. \n\nThis is not the case every time, and you should always do your research before making investment decisions.  Hope this helps!\n\nA good link for more information on this subject is http://www.investopedia.com/university/peratio/
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How about the websites of each of the companies you just mentioned.  Try investor relations, and/or checking out their press releases.
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First, you need to figure out what the value of the stock was, and then subtract off the tax to figure out the profit.  In a sense, what you're doing mathematically is saying "14,800 is 28% of what number?"  To get this, divide 14,800 by 0.28 and you get 52,857.14.  Subtract off the 14,800 and you get the 38,057.10 (or close to it, with rounding).