FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
BellSouth
Rank: 106 (Previous rank: 87)
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CEO: F. Duane Ackerman
Address: 1155 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: 404-249-2000
Website: http://www.bellsouth.com
Revenues 20,613.0 -9.3
Profits 3,294.0 -30.8
Assets 56,553.0
Stockholders' Equity 23,534.0
Market Value 3/17/2006 61,979.7
Revenues 16.0
Assets 5.8
Stockholders' equity 14.0
2005 $ 1.80
% change from 2004 -30.5
1995-2005 annual growth rate % N.A.
2005 1.7
1995-2005 annual rate 5.1
Industry: Telecommunications
1 Verizon Communications 18 75,111.9
2 AT&T 39 43,862.0
3 Sprint Nextel 59 34,680.0
4 Comcast 94 22,255.0
5 BellSouth 106 20,613.0
6 Qwest Communications 160 13,903.0
7 DIRECTV Group 168 13,164.5
8 Alltel 251 9,487.0
9 Echostar Communications 273 8,425.5
10 Cox Communications 316 7,054.3
11 Liberty Global 408 5,284.7
12 Charter Communications 413 5,254.0
13 Cablevision Systems 414 5,224.7
14 Level 3 Communications 521 3,677.0
15 NTL 526 3,628.4
16 CenturyTel 697 2,479.3
17 IDT 698 2,468.5
18 Citizens Communications 768 2,167.1
19 Nextel Partners 858 1,801.7
20 NII Holdings 876 1,745.8
21 XO Communications 998 1,433.6
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