This article has been corrected.
This article has been corrected.
The annual celebration of capitalism known as the Fortune 500 just dropped, and there’s a few stirrings at the top of the famous list of big American businesses.
While the top five is unchanged from last year (Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobile, of insured Americans and spurring more demand for medical services.
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Pharmacy chain CVS kicked Valero $VLO Energy out the top 10. Health care IT firm McKesson $MCK rose four spots to 11. And AmerisourceBergen $ABC, a drug supplier, shot up 12 spots to 16 after it closed a major deal with Walgreens $WBA that helped lower its generic drug acquisition costs. If you don’t mind a stretch, consider that Kroger, the supermarket chain, has now cracked the top 20. It got 8.3% of its overall from its pharmacy business last year, and that figure was up nearly 12% from the previous year.
Check out the rest of the top 20 below:
Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly ranked General Election as sixth on the 2015 Fortune 500. The company is ranked eighth.
