Forbes: Gazprom - the three largest companies in the world by profit

Russian gas concern Gazprom took third place in earnings in the list of two thousand largest public companies in the world in general, the ranking compiled by the magazine Forbes, which takes into account other than profits, revenues, assets and market capitalization, Gazprom takes 15 th row (last year - 16 th). According to the newspaper, the profits of Gazprom in the past year amounted to 25.72 billion dollars in the first place for profit - Nestle with a profit of 36.65 billion dollars, while the second - Oil and Gas ExxonMobil, earned 30.46 billion dollars, transmits Lenta.ru. Leader of the general ranking second consecutive year, Forbes became a U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase. Second line of the overall rating has taken a British bank HSBC, and the third - the American corporation General Electric. More than just a ranking of companies from the U.S. was - 536 companies. The second highest number of large corporations, Japan (260). The top five also included China (121 company), Canada (67 companies) and South Korea (61 companies). In the rankings, no Ukrainian company. In Forbes estimated the total capitalization of all listed as companies in 38 trillion. U.S. However, their total profits for the year increased by one trillion dollars to 2.4 trillion. U.S.