Exxon (XON) is bigger tha most countries

AlfredSokol said: "And more [url=http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/energy/10235271.html]profitablle[/url] too. Imagine that: [B]$7.6 BILLION in earnings[/B] for the last 3 months!"

alhamid said: "they charge so damn much for gas what can we expect!"

dsm091 said: "you know gas in Iraq is like 2 or 3 dollars to fill a whole tank of a BMW. US is around average 30, and other countries just crazy 7 dollars a gallon. I never understood how the koreans could afford a dollar per litre. Oil is definately where the money is at."

HappyHarry said: "People on islands pay a TON for gas. The Exxon numbers are really staggering. But I guess it makes sense...people are always going to need energy."

trickynick said: "Slight correction, the symbol is actually XOM. Anyway... WOW! $25 billion in 2004 net income applicable to common shares. Man, that is just incomprehensible. It really is amazing how collossal come companies have become. Some of them I see as good investments but owning something like GE and holding onto it for years only to realize an average return that just slightly outpaces US real GDP just isn't a very exciting prospect for me. The Forbes 2000 is a list of the world's leading companies is measured by a compositite of sales, profits, assets and market value and in 2004 they were in order: 1. Citigroup 2. General Electric 3. AIG 4. ExxonMobile 5. BP 6. Bank of America 7. HSBC 8. Toyota Motor 9. Fannie Mae 10. Wal-Mart So out of that we have 2 oil companies, 4 banks and financial services conglomerates, 1 unwriter of big ticket insurance, 1 industrial/financial/energy conglomerate, one car company and then...WAL-MART! I think the most notable thing about this list is that a company in Wal-Mart's business has reached a level at which it can be counted amongst the names above."