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Top 200 Capital Expenditures

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This list reflects current expenditures and replaces the list published in the Nov. 9 issue. The previously published list contained information from 2007-08. Companies are ranked here by capital expenditures, funds used for additions to the company’s property, plant and equipment. They include expenditures for capital leases, increases in funds for construction and reclassification of inventory to property, plant and equipment. They do not include capital expenditures of discontinued operations, changes resulting from foreign currency fluctuations, decreases in funds for construction presented as a use of funds, or property, plant and equipment of acquired firms.

The table below shows only rankings and firm name. For complete data from the Top Owners list see the following links.

Top 200 Capital Expenditures (REVISED)
RANK FIRM FIRM TYPE
(SIC CODE **)
1 AT&T Inc., Dallas, Texas 4800
2 Chevron Corp., San Ramon, Calif. 2900
3 Exxon Mobil Corp., Irving, Texas 2900
4 ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas 2900
5 Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, Okla. 1300
6 Verizon Communications Inc., New York, N.Y. 4800
7 General Electric Co., Fairfield, Conn. 9900
8 XTO Energy Inc., Fort Worth, Texas 1300
9 Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Bentonville, Ark. 5300
10 Hertz Global Holdings Inc., Park Ridge, N.J. 7500
11 Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, Okla. 1300
12 Motors Liquidation Co., Detroit, Mich. 3700
13 Marathon Oil Corp., Houston, Texas 2900
14 Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich. 3700
15 Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Omaha, Neb. 9900
16 Apache Corp., Houston, Texas 1300
17 Comcast Corp., Philadelphia, Pa. 4800
18 Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. 3600
19 EOG Resources Inc., Houston, Texas 1300
20 American International Group Inc., New York, N.Y. 6300
21 Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, Texas 1300
22 Occidental Petroleum Corp., Los Angeles, Calif. 1300
23 Hess Corp., New York, N.Y. 2900
24 Duke Energy Corp., Charlotte, N.C. 4900
25 Time Warner Inc., New York, N.Y. 4800
26 International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. 7300
27 Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Ill. 3500
28 Loews Corp., New York, N.Y. 6300
29 American Electric Power Co. Inc., Columbus, Ohio 4900
30 Southern Co., Atlanta, Ga. 4900
31 Sprint Nextel Corp., Overland Park, Kan. 4800
32 Las Vegas Sands Corp., Las Vegas, Nev. 7900
33 PG&E Corp., San Francisco, Calif. 4900
34 Dominion Resources Inc., Richmond, Va. 4900
35 Target Corp., Minneapolis, Minn. 5300
36 Time Warner Cable Inc., New York, N.Y. 4800
37 Williams Cos Inc., Tulsa, Okla. 4900
38 Alcoa Inc., New York, N.Y. 3300
39 Lowe’s Cos Inc., Mooresville, N.C. 5200
40 Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash. 7300
41 Plains Exploration & Production Co., Houston, Texas 1300
42 Petrohawk Energy Corp., Houston, Texas 1300
43 Exelon Corp., Chicago, Ill. 4900
44 Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Fort Worth, Texas 4000
45 Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J. 2800
46 Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio 2800
47 Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif. 3500
48 FirstEnergy Corp., Akron, Ohio 4900
49 Entergy Corp., New Orleans, La. 4900
50 AES Corp., Arlington, Va. 4900
51 Edison International, Rosemead, Calif. 4900
52 Valero Energy Corp., San Antonio, Texas 2900
53 Union Pacific Corp., Omaha, Neb. 4000
54 El Paso Corp., Houston, Texas 4900
55 Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., Phoenix, Ariz. 1000
56 United Parcel Service Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 4200
57 CIT Group Inc., New York, N.Y. 6100
58 Progress Energy Inc., Raleigh, N.C. 4900
59 Citigroup Inc., New York, N.Y. 6100
60 Micron Technology Inc., Boise, Idaho 3600
61 FPL Group Inc., Juno Beach, Fla. 4900
62 Questar Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah 4900
63 FedEx Corp., Memphis, Tenn. 4500
64 PepsiCo Inc., Purchase, N.Y. 2000
65 Forest Oil Corp., Denver, Colo. 1300
66 Liberty Global Inc., Englewood, Colo. 4800
67 Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif. 7300
68 Consolidated Edison Inc., New York, N.Y. 4900
69 Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, Texas 1300
70 Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich. 2800
71 Noble Energy Inc., Houston, Texas 1300
72 DIRECTV Group Inc., El Segundo, Calif. 4800
73 Walgreen Co., Deerfield, Ill. 5900
74 Murphy Oil Corp., El Dorado, Ark. 2900
75 CVS Caremark Corp., Woonsocket, R.I. 5900
76 Kroger Co., Cincinnati, Ohio 5400
77 McDonald’s Corp., Oak Brook, Ill. 5800
78 Ameren Corp., St. Louis, Mo. 4900
79 Sempra Energy, San Diego, Calif. 4900
80 SandRidge Energy Inc., Oklahoma City, Okla. 1300
81 Xcel Energy Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. 4900
82 Goldman Sachs Group, New York, N.Y. 6200
83 PHH Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J. 6100
84 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, Del. 2800
85 Avis Budget Group Inc., Parsippany, N.J. 7500
86 Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, Ga. 2000
87 Constellation Energy Group Inc., Baltimore, Md. 4900
88 Corning Inc., Corning, N.Y. 3600
89 Newmont Mining Corp., Greenwood Village, Colo. 1000
90 Home Depot Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 5200
91 Halliburton Co., Houston, Texas 1300
92 Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., Decatur, Ill. 2000
93 Qwest Communications International Inc., Denver, Colo. 4800
94 Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., Newark, N.J. 4900
95 Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, Texas 4900
96 CSX Corp., Jacksonville, Fla. 4000
97 EXCO Resources Inc., Dallas, Texas 1300
98 Pfizer Inc., New York, N.Y. 2800
99 Boeing Co., Chicago, Ill. 3700
100 Praxair Inc., Danbury, Conn. 2800

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