Andrea Murphy

Forbes has been tracking America’s largest private companies since 1985. This year’s list, with 246 entrants,is the largest since 2008, when the cutoff to qualify was $1 billion in sales. We raised the threshold to $2 billion in revenues in 2009 and that’s stayed the same since then. Companies are ranked by revenues from the most recently completed fiscal year.

Where the women entrepreneurs, executives and entertainers on Forbes’ new list got their start.

Forbes’ 14th annual America’s Best Banks list looks at growth, credit quality and profitability to rank the 100 largest (by assets) publicly-traded banks and thrifts from best to worst. Smaller regional and community banks which get most of their revenue from interest income dominate the top half of the list, while multinational banks that generate more income from underwriting and advisory fees were hit the hardest by the economic slowdown. All four trillion-dollar banks lag in the bottom third…

From Thoroughbred horses and Steinway pianos to caviar and opera tickets, the luxe life keeps getting more expensive.

In the stock market’s worst year since 2008, many mid-cap stocks have minimized the damage. The S&P MidCap 400 Index is down 11% this year, not as bad as the S&P 500’s 15% decline or the 18% drop for the Russell 2000 Index of small cap stocks.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the Fireball whiskey maker and nine other newcomers rocket into the ranks of Forbes’ annual list of the largest private companies.

Two years after the start of the pandemic, Covid casualties like airlines and oil producers have reclaimed top spots among the largest companies in the world.

Private companies don’t always get the attention they deserve compared to their public peers, but this year was different.

A kilo of caviar, a Rolls Royce Phantom: Forbes has tracked the cost of the good life for 40 years.

The agribusiness firm dropped down to No. 2 last year, only the third time Cargill missed the top spot since Forbes began tracking the country’s private companies in 1985.