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Rankings of Canada's top 1000 public companies by profit

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The companies listed here are the 1000 largest publicly traded Canadian corporations measured by assets. They are ranked according to their after-tax profits in their most recent fiscal year, excluding extraordinary gains and losses. When companies state their results in U.S. dollars, we do the same, but rankings are based on the Canadian dollar equivalents.

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. Purchase the publicly traded-firms report for $165 plus taxes

Rankings by profit

  Rank Chg Company and year end Profit % Chg Revenue % Chg
1000 -964 Barrick Gold (De09) 1 -4,274,000 -644 8,338,000 7
999 -381 Erdene Resource Development (De09) -2,177,057   598,166  
998 -2 CanWest Global Communications (Au09) -1,689,269 -62 3,200,368 3
997 -891 Just Energy Income Fund (Ma09) -1,107,473 -825 569,841 -67
996 -912 Harvest Operations (De09) -935,634 -541 3,295,109 -42
995 -50 ACE Aviation Holdings (De09) -692,000 -477 8,771,000 -22
994 -839 Magna International (De09) 1 -493,000 -794 17,394,000 -27
993 -937 Ultra Petroleum (De09) 1 -451,053 -209 810,391 -28
992 -156 Crystallex International (De09) 1 -313,899 -1,120 874 -68
991 -37 West Fraser Timber (De09) -340,800 -149 2,676,900 -17
990 -7 Kingsway Financial Services (De09) 1 -290,287 28 444,758 -19
989 -22 Ivanhoe Mines (De09) 1 -280,171 -52 76,695 370
988 -15 Opti Canada (De09) -306,156 36 441,296 116
987 -63 Coalcorp Mining (Ju09) 1 -226,144 -176 42,809 -39
986 -868 Cogeco Cable (Au09) -256,675 -293 1,218,096 13
985 -791 Iberian Minerals (De09) -249,641 -622 180,075 82
984 -59 Homburg Invest (De09) -247,690 -158 401,289 -19
983 -45 New Gold (De09) 1 -194,316 -102 328,676 62
982 -67 Tembec Inc. (Se09) 4 -214,000 -160 1,790,000 -27
981 -892 Equinox Minerals (De09) 1 -183,063 -206 469,239 72
980 9 Gerdau Ameristeel (De09) 1 -161,716 72 4,196,071 -51
979 -29 E-L Financial (De09) -184,535 -45 2,153,506 35
978 -68 Lions Gate Entertainment (Ma09) 1 -162,980 -120 1,472,159 7
977   World Color Press (De09) 1 -154,000 91 3,152,000 -22
976 -798 Brookfield Renewable Power (De09) -175,636 -396 288,049 47
975 -829 Pacific Rubiales Energy (De09) 1 -153,574 -300 619,333 0
974 -56 Denison Mines (De09) 1 -147,012 -82 79,955 -43
973 -5 Brick Group Income Fund (De09) -163,017 18 1,224,357 -14
972 -877 Astral Media (Au09) -158,025 -189 905,725 4
971 17 MDS Inc. (Oc09) 1 -135,000 72 249,000 -5

Source: Company annual reports.
Notes: Profit, revenue and assets are shown in $000s. For ranking purposes, figures from companies that report in foreign currencies have been converted to Canadian dollars and partial-year results have been annualized.
Footnotes: 1. Company reports in U.S. dollars. 3. Figures have been annualized in the latest year. 4. Figures have been annualized in previous year.

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