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maxrandb

(15,324 posts)
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 12:26 AM Sep 2021

Top 25 Fortune 500 Companies in Texas


Tesla, Toyota and GM also have manufacturing plants in Texas, and Southwest Airlines is also headquartered there.

Any blue states like CA, or VA have contracts with any of these companies?

How about federal agencies, or the military.

I know that in Virginia, I set quite a few Waste Management trucks.

25. Halliburton
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $19 Billion
Employees: 40,000

Halliburton Company provides products and services, including digital solutions, to the energy industry.

The company supplies solutions to oil and natural gas companies around the world to help them achieve greater efficiency and cost savings.

24. Texas Instruments
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
Market Value: $174.4 Billion
Employees: 30,000

Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and sells processing chips.

23. Waste Management
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $54.5 Billion
Employees: 48,250

Waste Management delivers comprehensive waste management services, including trash collection and recycling, construction waste disposal, and more.

22. Fluor
Headquarters: Irving, Texas
Market Value: $3.3 Billion
Employees: 43,717

Fluor Corporation provides professional and technical solutions for engineering, procurement, and construction projects around the world.

21. Occidental Petroleum
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $24.8 Billion
Employees: 11,800

Occidental Petroleum Corporation, aka Oxy, is an international energy company that produces oil and manufactures petrochemicals.

The organization is a leading producer in the Permian and DJ basins and offshore of the Gulf of Mexico.

20. American Airlines Group
Headquarters: Fort Worth, Texas
Market Value: $15.3 Billion
Employees: 102,700

American Airlines Group is one of the largest airlines in the world, offering more than 6,000 flights to 350 destinations in 50 countries.

The headquarters are located at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

19. Tenet Healthcare
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
Market Value: $5.5 Billion
Employees: 97,900

Tenet Healthcare includes Tenet's Hospital Operations, United Surgical Partners International, and Conifer Health Services.

The company offers high-quality healthcare and ambulatory services in addition to business support services for healthcare organizations and self-insured employers.

18. Kimberly-Clark
Headquarters: Irving, Texas
Market Value: $47 Billion
Employees: 46,000

Kimberly-Clark Corporation produces paper-based personal care products through a variety of brands (e.g., Huggies, Kleenex, U by Kotex) and hygienic solutions for workplaces via Kimberly-Clark Professional (e.g., toilet paper/paper towel dispensers, commercial cleaning supplies).

17. ConocoPhillips
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $71.6 Billion
Employees: 9,700

ConocoPhillips is an energy company that explores for, produces, transports, and markets crude oil, natural gas, and other resources to supply power.

16. D.R. Horton
Headquarters: Arlington, Texas
Market Value: $32.4 Billion
Employees: 9,716

Securing its place as America's largest new home builder by volume, D. R. Horton is a home construction company.

15. Baker Hughes
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $22.5 Billion
Employees: 55,000

Baker Hughes is a leading energy technology company that provides products and services for the oil and gas industry, operating in more than 120 countries.

14. Plains GP Holdings
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $1.8 Billion
Employees: 4,400

Plains GP Holdings owns a non-economic controlling general partner interest in Plains All American Pipeline, which is one of the largest infrastructure and logistics companies in North America.

The company provides transportation, facilities, and supply and logistics services for crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquid.

13. CBRE Group
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
Market Value: $26.5 Billion
Employees: 100,000

CBRE Group Inc. is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm.

The organization offers a range of services, including transaction and project management, property management, investment management, property sales, and more.

12. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $20.5 Billion
Employees: 59,400

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company is a global, edge-to-cloud Platform-as-a-Service company that provides information technology solutions.

In 2015, the Hewlett-Packard Company split into two separate entities: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and Hewlett Packard Inc.

Hewlett Packard Inc. — not Hewlett Packard Enterprise — provides personal and business desktops, laptops, printers, and scanners.

11. Enterprise Products Partners
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $48 Billion
Employees: 7,130

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest midstream oil and gas companies in North America. "Midstream" is a sector in the oil and gas industry that involves transporting, storing, and wholesale marketing petroleum products.

The company provides services to producers and consumers of crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, petrochemicals, and refined products.

10. USAA
Headquarters: San Antonio, Texas
Market Value: N/A
Employees: 35,935

The United Services Automobile Association (USAA) serves millions of military members and their families with insurance, banking, and investment services.

USAA is the only privately held company on this list. Headquartered in San Antonio on 268 acres, the corporate campus is one of the largest single-occupancy buildings in the nation.

9. Energy Transfer
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
Market Value: $20.8 Billion
Employees: 11,421

Energy Transfer LP is a midstream energy company that transports oil and gas products.

8. Oracle
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
Market Value: $202.3 Billion
Employees: 135,000

Oracle is a computer technology corporation that provides database, platform, and infrastructure services.

In December 2020, Oracle announced the decision to move its headquarters from Silicon Valley, California, to Austin, Texas.

7. Sysco
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $40.2 Billion
Employees: 57,000

Sysco Corporation sells, markets, and distributes food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, hotels, and other organizations. The company also offers equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries.

Here's a fun fact: Sysco runs Concordia University Texas' Dining Hall.

6. Valero Energy
Headquarters: San Antonio, Texas
Market Value: $29.3 Billion
Employees: 9,964

Valero Energy is the largest independent petroleum refiner in the world and America's largest renewable fuels producer.

You can find Valero gas pumps all around Texas.

5. Phillips 66
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Market Value: $35.7 Billion
Employees: 14,300

Energy organization Phillips 66 Company operates four major segments: refining, midstream, marketing, and chemicals.

In 2012, Philipps 66 was split from ConocoPhillips to form a separate entity.

4. Dell Technologies
Headquarters: Round Rock, Texas
Market Value: $67.2 Billion
Employees: 158,000

Dell Technologies consists of two divisions.

Dell Client Solutions Group produces desktop PCs, laptops, tablets, and other technology products for individual customers. Dell EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group provides servers, storage, and networking services for businesses.

3. AT&T
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
Market Value: $215.9 Billion
Employees: 230,760

AT&T is the world's largest telecommunications company, providing products and services to organizations (e.g., cloud, cybersecurity, Internet of Things) and individuals ( (e.g., TV service, internet, wireless data plans).

2. ExxonMobil
Headquarters: Irving, Texas
Market Value: $236.4 Billion
Employees: 72,000

ExxonMobil is an oil and gas corporation that produces energy and chemical products.

Like Valero, you can find many Exxon and Mobil gas pumps around the state.

1. McKesson
Headquarters: Texas
Market Value: $31 Billion
Employees: 70,000

Global healthcare company McKesson Corporation distributes pharmaceuticals, wholesales medical supplies, provides business operations services for pharmacies, and delivers solutions for other healthcare entities.

McKesson is America's largest drug distributor, and in 2020, the U.S. government selected the company as the main distributor for COVID-19 vaccines.
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Top 25 Fortune 500 Companies in Texas (Original Post) maxrandb Sep 2021 OP
Thanks for posting! BigmanPigman Sep 2021 #1
THAT'S, a lot of money to follow! czarjak Sep 2021 #2
Dell Laurelin Sep 2021 #3
What wonder airlines would say if people Marius25 Sep 2021 #4
Nobody is going to do that. (Not enough to make a dent.) NurseJackie Sep 2021 #6
I'll continue to fly on American and we'll keep USAA, than you very much. NurseJackie Sep 2021 #5
Sysco supplies A LOT more than just Concordia. GoCubsGo Sep 2021 #7
 

Marius25

(3,213 posts)
4. What wonder airlines would say if people
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 08:33 AM
Sep 2021

tell them they're not longer flying Southwest/American due to their Headquarters being in Texas and those airlines approving Texas' authoritarian laws.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
6. Nobody is going to do that. (Not enough to make a dent.)
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 08:37 AM
Sep 2021

It's an ineffective and emotionally-based response to something that requires more.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
5. I'll continue to fly on American and we'll keep USAA, than you very much.
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 08:36 AM
Sep 2021

Boycotting these companies is not a very practical solution. It's weak. It accomplishes nothing.

GoCubsGo

(32,080 posts)
7. Sysco supplies A LOT more than just Concordia.
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 08:39 AM
Sep 2021

They supply the dining halls of numerous other universities, as well as those of K-12 school districts throughout the country. They also supply Wendy's and and other restaurants. AND, they supply military base mess halls and other federal facilities. Hopefully, Biden's "all-of-government" response will include pressuring Sysco and other Texas-based government contractors to act appropriately.

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