Wisconsin's Biggest Companies: See What Made Fortune 500 List For 2023

WISCONSIN — Fortune Magazine on Monday released its annual ranking of America's biggest 500 companies by revenue, and eight that made the list have their headquarters in Wisconsin.

It's the 69th edition of the Fortune 500 list. The corporations on the list had combined revenues of $18 trillion in fiscal year 2022 and account for two-thirds of the gross domestic product, Fortune said in a news release. Profits, down 15 percent, fell for the second time in the last three years. In Fortune's expanded list of the top 1000 companies by revenue, Wisconsin boasted 20 total companies.

Wisconsin companies that made the top 500, including their rankings and revenue, are:

• Northwestern Mutual at No. 111 with $912 million in profits.
• ManpowerGroup at No. 202 with $374 million in profits.
• Kohl's at No. 226 with a loss of $19 million.
• Fiserv at No. 230 with a profit of over $2 billion.
• American Family Insurance at No. 301 with a loss of over $1.9 billion.
• WEC Energy Group at No. 404 with over $1.4 billion in profit.
• Oshkosh at No. 455 with $174 million in profit.
• Rockwell Automation at No. 476 with over $900 million in profit.

For the first time in the list’s history, more than 10 percent of Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs. This year’s list includes 52 Fortune 500 companies that are led by women, an all-time high, up from 44 last year. That was not the case for any companies in Wisconsin that made the list, though.

The number of companies led by women in this year’s Fortune 500 are a “slow, but real” sign of progress, Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontoll said in her foreword in the June/July issue of the magazine.

“There are also more Black CEOs running Fortune 500s than ever before — but it’s shameful to say that there are still only eight,” Shontoll wrote.

The companies on the list are based in 224 cities in 38 states. For the second year, Texas leads with 55 Fortune 500 companies, followed by California with 53 companies, which bumped New York to No. 3 with 50 companies.

With 40 Fortune 500 companies based there, New York City is the top-ranked municipality, followed by Houston with 22 and Atlanta with 15.

The top 10 companies on the 2023 list are Walmart, Amazon.com, Exxon Mobil, Apple, UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health, Berkshire Hathaway, Alphabet, McKeeson and Chevron.

Walmart held the top spot for the 11th consecutive year, generating $5.7 trillion cumulative revenue over that time. Amazon.com is at No. 2 for the fourth straight year with a 9 percent jump in revenue, eclipsing the $510 billion mark. At No. 3 with a 45 percent jump in revenue, Exxon Mobil bumped Apple to No. 4.

But with $99.8 billion in profits, Apple was the most profitable company on the list for the eighth time in nine years.

UnitedHealth Group is the highest-ranked health care company on the list at No. 5, followed by CVS Health at No. 6.