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Global results overview (2006)

For 2006, we examined the accountability of the Fortune Global 50 – the world’s 50 largest companies by revenue – plus 14 other companies so that we were evaluating at least 10 companies in each of the following sectors: automotive; computer, electronics and telecommunications; energy and utilities; financial services; petroleum refining. These sectors were chosen because they dominate the G50 list. In addition, we included within our study group the top 10 from the 2005 Accountability Rating. We termed this study group the G50+.

The table ranks these companies and compares their performance with their score in 2005.

Rank	Company	Score (%)	Sector	2005 score (%)
1	Vodafone	72	CET	71
2	BP	71	Petroleum refining	78
3	Royal Dutch/Shell Group	69	Petroleum refining	72
4	EDF	61	Energy and utilities	56
5	Suez	58	Energy and utilities	49
6	Enel	56	Energy and utilities	48
7	HSBC Holdings	56	Financial	63
8	Veolia Environnement	55	Energy and utilities	NA
9	HBOS	53	Financial	37
10	Carrefour	50	Trading and merchandise	60
11	Peugeot	50	Automotive	56
12	Tokyo Electric Power	49	Energy and utilities	57
13	General Motors	49	Automotive	50
14	General Electric	48	CET	43
15	Daimler Chrysler	48	Automotive	47
16	Ford	48	Automotive	58
17	Total	46	Petroleum refining	48
18	International Business Machines	46	CET	46
19	Volkswagen	46	Automotive	31
20	RWE	45	Energy and utilities	53
21	Citigroup	45	Financial	36
22	Hewlett Packard	45	CET	47
23	Toyota Motor	45	Automotive	41
24	Fiat	45	Automotive	35
25	E.ON	43	Energy and utilities	27
26	ING Group	40	Financial	45
27	Aviva	38	Financial	47
28	ENI	38	Petroleum refining	36
29	Fortis	36	Financial	45
30	Chevron	35	Petroleum refining	55
31	BMW	35	Automotive	29
32	Credit Agricole	34	Financial	33
33	Matsushita Electrical Idustrial	34	CET	44
34	ConocoPhillips	34	Petroleum refining	37
35	Hitachi	33	CET	35
36	Exxon Mobil	32	Petroleum refining	34
37	BNP Paribas	31	Financial	33
38	AXA	31	Financial	31
39	Deutsche Bank	31	Financial	33
40	UBS	30	Financial	39
41	Deutsche Telekom	30	CET	31
42	Siemens	29	CET	34
43	Allianz	28	Financial	23
44	Honda Motor	28	Automotive	24
45	JP Morgan Chase and Company	26	Financial	33
46	Samsung Electronics	26	CET	25
47	Nippon Telegraph & Telephone	25	CET	21
48	Nissan Motor	24	Automotive	29
49	Verizon	23	CET	22
50	Bank of America	21	Financial	19
51	Gazprom	21	Energy and utilities	NA
52	Home Depot	20	Trading and merchandise	10
53	American International Group	16	Financial	6
54	McKesson	15	Trading and merchandise	6
55	Assicurazioni Generali	12	Financial	5
56	Pemex	10	Petroleum refining	30
57	Sinopec	10	Petroleum refining	12
58	Wal-Mart Stores	7	Trading and merchandise	7
59	PDVSA	5	Petroleum refining	NA
60	Valero Energy	5	Petroleum refining	16
61	Plains All-American Pipeline	5	Energy and utilities	NA
62	Berkshire Hathaway	4	Financial	2
63	China National Petroleum	3	Petroleum refining	11
64	State Grid	0	Energy and utilities	*

Key
NA	Not applicable – company not rated in 2005
*	No annual report in English was available for review
CET	Computer, electronics and telecommunications

* We have not used decimal places in the score columns, although differences of as little as 0.01% have been taken into account for the ranking.