Online retail giant Amazon unseated brick-and-mortar rival Walmart as the top company on the Fortune 500 ranking, ending Walmart’s 13-year run as the nation’s highest revenue-producing company.
The 2026 Fortune 500 list was published online on June 3 and will hit newsstands on June 16. Since Fortune launched its Top 500 list in 1955, only four companies have ever held the No. 1 spot. The other two were General Motors and Exxon Mobil.
“You can’t succeed at that kind of scale without persuading millions of people to trust you,” Fortune Executive Editor Matt Heimer said in a statement.
“From Amazon’s historic rise to the battles for customer loyalty at Microsoft, Boeing, and American Express, the companies featured in this issue share a common thread: They understand that size means nothing without that trust.”…