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Here are a few quick stats culled from the FP500
Total revenue reported by the FP500 as a group was $2.33 trillion, up roughly $140 billion from last year’s total of $2.19 trillion, with the average FP500 company reporting revenue of $4.67 billion, up from $4.38 billion a year ago. The average profit of the 394 companies that reported such figures was $455 million, with 79 of those companies reporting a loss, compared to $532.3 million a year ago. The average value of assets held by the 425 companies that reported them was $28.5 billion, up from $26.5 billion, though both numbers are somewhat skewed by the Big Five bank holdings. The FP500 revenue cut-off this year is $428.7 million, compared to $422.9 million last year. Fredericton-based New Brunswick Liquor Corp. is No. 500, rising from No. 505 last year.
There are 277 publicly traded companies on the FP500, of which 267 trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Four companies solely trade on the New York Stock Exchange and six are on Nasdaq. However, there are 80 cross-listed TSX companies, including 63 on the NYSE, 13 on Nasdaq and four on the AMEX. The rest of the FP500 is composed of 162 private companies, 44 Crown corporations and 17 co-ops. None of the FP500 companies trade on the TSX Venture, but 18 on the FP800 do, the largest of which is Calgary-based investment firm Mosaic Capital Corp. (No. 519) with $397.5 million in revenue.