Fifteen companies headquartered in Connecticut made the latest list of Forbes ranking of the world’s 2,000 largest publicly traded companies.
The annual rankings released this week are based on a combination of company sales, profits, assets and market value.
Fairfield-based General Electric was ranked as the largest Connecticut company, and third largest publicly traded conglomerate in the world. Forbes listed the company’s market value at $216 billion. GE recorded $150.2 billion in sales and $11.6 billion in profits in 2010.
Hartford-based United Technologies Corp. ranked the 112th largest company worldwide with a market value of $74.8 billion. It brought in $54.3 billion in sales last year and earned $4.4 billion in profits.
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Aetna and Xerox rounded out the five largest Connecticut-based companies on the list ranking 258th, 303rd, and 457th worldwide with market values of $12.3 billion, $14 billion and $14.6 billion respectively.
Other Connecticut companies that made the list include Praxair (480);Â Stanley Black & Decker (983); Priceline.com (1,193); Amphenol (1,384); Frontier Communications (1,423); Pitney Bowes (1,574); People’s United Financial (1,777); Interactive Brokers Group (1,820); and Phoenix Cos. (1,972).
