The Forbes 2000 Ranking of the World's Biggest Companies (Year 2004)
Forbes2000.RdThe Forbes 2000 list is a ranking of the world's biggest companies, measured by sales, profits, assets and market value.
Usage
data("Forbes2000")Format
A data frame with 2000 observations on the following 8 variables.
- rank
the ranking of the company.
- name
the name of the company.
- country
a factor giving the country the company is situated in.
- category
a factor describing the products the company produces.
- sales
the amount of sales of the company in billion USD.
- profits
the profit of the company in billion USD.
- assets
the assets of the company in billion USD.
- marketvalue
the market value of the company in billion USD.
Source
https://www.forbes.com, assessed on November 26th, 2004.
Examples
data("Forbes2000", package = "HSAUR3")
summary(Forbes2000)
#> rank name country
#> Min. : 1.0 Length:2000 United States :751
#> 1st Qu.: 500.8 Class :character Japan :316
#> Median :1000.5 Mode :character United Kingdom:137
#> Mean :1000.5 Germany : 65
#> 3rd Qu.:1500.2 France : 63
#> Max. :2000.0 Canada : 56
#> (Other) :612
#> category sales profits
#> Banking : 313 Min. : 0.010 Min. :-25.8300
#> Diversified financials: 158 1st Qu.: 2.018 1st Qu.: 0.0800
#> Insurance : 112 Median : 4.365 Median : 0.2000
#> Utilities : 110 Mean : 9.697 Mean : 0.3811
#> Materials : 97 3rd Qu.: 9.547 3rd Qu.: 0.4400
#> Oil & gas operations : 90 Max. :256.330 Max. : 20.9600
#> (Other) :1120 NA's :5
#> assets marketvalue
#> Min. : 0.270 Min. : 0.02
#> 1st Qu.: 4.025 1st Qu.: 2.72
#> Median : 9.345 Median : 5.15
#> Mean : 34.042 Mean : 11.88
#> 3rd Qu.: 22.793 3rd Qu.: 10.60
#> Max. :1264.030 Max. :328.54
#>
### number of countries
length(levels(Forbes2000$country))
#> [1] 61
### number of industries
length(levels(Forbes2000$category))
#> [1] 27