Top 25 Fortune 500 Companies Headquartered in Texas
June 24, 2021
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With a prime location in the capital of Texas, Concordia offers students abundant job opportunities with Fortune 500 businesses.
The Fortune 500 is an annual list of 500 of the largest companies in the United States based on revenue for the accompanying fiscal year. Fortune magazine, a publication focused on the business industry, publishes the list. The Fortune 500 list is a golden standard in the field of business.
Here are the top 25 Fortune 500 companies on Fortune's 2021 list that are headquartered in the great state of Texas.
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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