What stores are ranked directly below Wal-Mart?

October 2, 2006 7:28 PM

In this NYT article, it says "...Wal-Mart's $312 billion in sales last year exceeded the sales of the next five biggest retailers combined." How can I find out who those five big retailers are and how much they made? Are these rankings based on U.S. sales, or worldwide + U.S.? Googling gives me data for 2004, but I can't find anything for 2005.
posted by invisible ink to work & money (6 comments total)

Stores.org. Scroll down to "Top 100 Retailers". It's in PDF format.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 7:35 PM on October 2, 2006

Wow, that was fast! Thanks:-)
posted by invisible ink at 7:38 PM on October 2, 2006

Worldwide revenue as reported on the NYSE. So I would say worldwide (revenues repatriated are reported) with the exception of the Wal-Mart subsidary in Mexico (which Wal-Mart owns 63% of that).

The other ones are (given a year there's probably change) as Home Depot, Target, CostCo and Kroger.

BUT Wal-Mart revenue numbers include Sam's Club, so really CostCo may show low revenue numbers but we have no idea how well it compares to Sam's Club as those are all hidden by Wal-Mart revenues. Similar with Wal-Mart's grocery sales and Kroger or Wal-Mart prime stores versus Target. Studying financials is hard.

I like finance.google.com for interface but finance.yahoo.com is sometimes more thorough.
posted by geoff. at 7:43 PM on October 2, 2006

For the sake of completeness, here are the top six retailers from the pdf from Stores.org that SeizeTheDay linked to:

Company           2005 Revenues ('000)
Walmart               $315,427,000
Home Depot              81,511,000
Kroger                  60,552,900
Sears Holdings          53,962,000
Costco                  52,935,228
Target                  52,620,000

The sales of the next 5 retailers below Walmart is just over $301B, compared to Walmart's $315B.
posted by mhum at 11:56 PM on October 2, 2006

That's only US-based retailers (though it includes global revenue). The global top 6 excluding WalMart reported 2004 revenues of:

Company           2004 Revenues ('000)
Carrefour               $90,389
Home Depot              $73,094
Metro AG                $70,165
Tesco Plc               $62,505
Kroger                  $56,434

At $352,587,000, still only just bigger than WalMart!
posted by patricio at 2:09 AM on October 3, 2006

Not to quibble, but Wal-Mart is probably consolidating the sales of Wal-Mart de Mexico if they own 63% of it. GAAP is for full consolidation of enitities controlled by the parent.
posted by JPD at 2:59 AM on October 3, 2006