TOP 1000
Less than zero: How companies can end up with negative revenues
New accounting standards, complex corporate structures can make the top line hard to fathom
Top 1000
The great comeback of Canada's top companies
Earnings snap back, but our economic comfort zone looks ever smaller
Slideshow
Top Canadian CEOs on management during tumultuous times
Nine Canadian leaders offer advice
Slideshow
10 companies whose stock prices have tanked
Shareholders at these companies wonder how much more they can take
Top 1000
Should you buy the top or bottom 10 stocks?
The stocks on both ends of the list have their advantages
Derek DeCloet
Don Gray's inconvenient truth
Don Gray alleges that his rivals are "growing" by selling more stock, then producing less for each share
Eric Reguly
Why doesn't Canada have more top companies?
How short-sighted investors sell out our corporations
Vote: Which companies make the best investments?
The Top 1000 rankings
Top 1000
2011 Rankings of Canada's top 1000 public companies by profit
Our annual ranking of Canada's biggest corporations based on the only metric that matters: profit
2011 Rankings of Canada's 350 biggest private companies
We rank the top private firms by revenue, the one significant measure they disclose
Spreadsheet download
You can purchase a spreadsheet copy of the Top 1000, which includes more information than the magazine, such as earnings per share, dividend yield, financial ratios, major shareholder and much more.
Canada's 100 biggest companies by revenue
Which companies are really the largest in Canada? If you want to compare every breed of corporation -- publicly traded, privately owned, government owned, subsidiaries of multinationals and more -- start by looking at the top line of the income statement.
Canada's 100 biggest companies by market cap
The total value of a publicly traded company’s shares is a sign of investors’ enthusiasm about its prospects. But remember Bre-X and Nortel? A bloated market cap can be a sign of irrational exuberance.
Canada's 100 biggest companies by return on equity
Return on common equity (ROCE) tells you how much profit a company is generating for each dollar that shareholders have invested in the business. The average of annual returns over five years reduces the impact of a stellar year or a lousy one.
Canada's 50 biggest employers
Booming resource companies attract a lot of headlines and investor interest, but the bulk of Canada’s heftiest employers are still in glamour-challenged traditional sectors like banking, insurance and retail
The Top 1000 archive
2010 issue
While some major players performed as if the recession never happened, credit scarcity and red ink were the recurring themes 2010's Top 1000
2009 issue
In the 25th-anniversary issue, unless you were selling oil, it was a year that profits swooned in the heat of the global meltdown.
2008 issue
In a turbulent year, banks and oil companies dominated The Top 1000 profit ranking.
2007 issue
Canadian corporate profits kept soaring, and foreign predators liked what they saw.
