A Walt Disney Company product, Disneyland and the Disneyland parades. Los Angeles Almanac Photo.
Previous Years: 2015 | 2011 | 2005 | 2001
Of the 105 publicly-owned companies headquartered in California in the 2021 Fortune 500 List, 22 are headquarted in Los Angeles County. Listed below are the 22 companies, plus one not in the Fortune 500 list. Total revenue for these companies in 2021 came to $200 billion and total market value was at least $598 billion. Combined, they employed more than 500,000 people worldwide. The Walt Disney Company continues to be Los Angeles County's most valuable locally-based company with more than half the market value of all 23 companies combined. Disney ranked 50th in the Fortune 500 list and 7th within California.
Edison International is the oldest public corporation headquartered in Los Angeles County. It traces its roots back to 1886.
| Company | Sales, 2021 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Walt Disney Co. | $65,388 | Entertainment | 203,000 | Burbank | 1923 |
| Molina Healthcare, Inc. | $19,423 | Health Care | 10,500 | Long Beach | 1980 |
| AECOM Technology Corp. | $16,391 | Construction Engineering | 54,000 | Los Angeles | 1990 |
| Edison International | $13,578 | Utilities | 13,209 | Rosemead | 1886 |
| Farmers Insurance Exchange* | $11,870 | Insurance | 10,004 | Woodland Hills (Los Angeles (Woodland Hills)) | 1928 |
| Company | Sales, 2021 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. | $8,812 | Metals | 13,000 | Los Angeles | 1939 |
| Activision Blizzard, Inc. | $8,086 | Computer Gaming Software | 9,500 | Santa Monica | 1979 |
| Avery Dennison Corp. | $6,972 | Chemicals | 32,000 | Glendale | 1935 |
| A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. | $5,461 | Precious Metals | 218 | El Segundo | 1965 |
| Tutor Perini Corp. | $5,319 | Construction Engineering | 8,700 | Sylmar (Los Angeles (Sylmar)) | 1894 |
| Company | Sales, 2021 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| Skechers U.S.A., Inc. | $4,613 | Apparel | 8,800 | Manhattan Beach | 1992 |
| Mattel, Inc. | $4,584 | Toy Manufacturing | 32,100 | El Segundo | 1945 |
| KB Home | $4,183 | Homebuilders | 1,776 | Los Angeles | 1957 |
| Mercury General Corp. | $3,785 | Insurance | 4,300 | Los Angeles | 1961 |
| Endeavor Group Holdings | $3,478 | Entertainment | 6,400 | Beverly Hills | 2009 |
| Company | Sales, 2021 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| Tetra Tech, Inc. | $2,995 | Construction Engineering | 20,000 | Pasadena | 1966 |
| Public Storage | $2,915 | Storage Facilities | 5,400 | Glendale | 1972 |
| Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. | $2,072 | Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles | 4,900 | El Segundo | 1942 |
| California Resources Corp.† | $2,020 | Petroleum & Natural Gas | 1,000 | Santa Clarita | 2014 |
| Air Lease Corp. | $2,015 | Equipment Leasing | 120 | Los Angeles | 2010 |
| Company | Sales, 2021 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. | $1,983 | Restaurants | 42,500 | Calabasas | 1972 |
| Guess?, Inc. | $1,877 | Apparel | 11,000 | Los Angeles | 1981 |
| Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. | $1,860 | Entertainment | 8,200 | Beverly Hills | 2010 |
* Parent company is Zurich Insurance Group.
† Not listed among the one thousand U.S. companies in the 2021 Fortune 500 list.
Sources: Fortune Magazine and D&B Hoovers
Mattel, Inc. is the world’s largest toy maker. There are more Barbie Dolls, Mattel’s most successful product, in the United States than there are people. The name Mattel was derived from combining the first names of partners Elliot Handler and "Matt" Matson. Ruth Handler, wife of Elliot, co-founder of the company and creator of the Barbie Doll, did not contribute her first name to the company name due to "the times."
IndyMac Bank, owned by parent IndyMac Bancorp of Pasadena, collapsed in July 2008, becoming the fourth largest bank failure in U.S. history and the second largest failure of a regulated thrift. IndyMac Bancorp filed for bankruptcy. OneWestBank formed in 2009 from the remains of the failed bank.
