A major financial services company in McLean, a giant defense contracting company in Bethesda and a D.C.-based conglomerate all landed on a new list of "America's Top Public Companies," released by Forbes
WASHINGTON — A major financial services company in McLean, a giant defense contracting company in Bethesda and a D.C.-based conglomerate all landed on a new list of “America’s Top Public Companies,” released by Forbes this week.
All told, 15 D.C.-area companies landed on the list, which ranks 500 publicly traded companies based on their revenue, profit, assets and market value as March 2017. Forbes weighed all four metrics equally to help “account for nuances in the myriad ways that investors value a company,” Forbes said in a post.
Scroll through the gallery to see the full list of D.C.-area companies.
Capital One Financial (No. 48)
Headquarters: McLean, Virginia
Employees: 45,400
Industry: Consumer Financial Services
Sales: $27.9 billion
Profits: $3.7 billion
Assets: $357 billion
Market value: $41.8 billion
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File
Lockheed Martin (No. 51)
Headquarters: Bethesda, Maryland
Employees: 126,000
Industry: Aerospace and defense
Sales: $49.9 billion
Profits: $3.8 billion
Assets: $47.8 billion
Market value: $77.6 billion
(Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)
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