A Walt Disney Company product, Disneyland and the Disneyland parades. Los Angeles Almanac Photo.
Previous Years: 2015 | 2011 | 2005 | 2001
Of the 118 publicly-owned companies headquartered in California in the 2018 Fortune 500 List, 28 are headquarted in Los Angeles County. Total revenue for these 28 companies in 2017 came to $225 billion and total market value was $398 billion. The Walt Disney Company continues to be Los Angeles County's most valuable locally-based company with 42% the market value of all 28 companies combined. It ranks 55th among America's public companies and 7th in California.
Edison International is the oldest public corporation headquartered in Los Angeles County. It traces its roots as far back as 1886.
| Company | Sales 2017 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Walt Disney Co.* | $55,137 | Entertainment | 199,000 | Burbank | 1923 |
| Molina Healthcare, Inc. | $19,883 | Health Care | 20,000 | Long Beach | 1980 |
| AECOM Technology Corp. | $18,203 | Construction Engineering | 87,000 | Los Angeles | 1990 |
| CBRE Group, Inc.* | $14,210 | Real estate | 80,000 | Los Angeles | 1906 |
| Edison International* | $12,320 | Utilities | 12,700 | Rosemead | 1886 |
| Farmers Insurance Exchange** | $12,072 | Insurance | 18,000 | Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) | 1928 |
| Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. | $10,337 | Entertainment | 8,800 | Beverly Hills | 2010 |
| Company | Sales, 2017 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. | $9,721 | Metals | 15,200 | Los Angeles | 1939 |
| Activision Blizzard, Inc.* | $7,017 | Computer Gaming Software | 9,600 | Santa Monica | 1979 |
| A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. | $6,990 | Precious Metals | 120 | Santa Monica | 1965 |
| Avery Dennison Corp.* | $6,614 | Chemicals | 30,000 | Glendale | 1935 |
| Mattel, Inc.* | $4,882 | Toy Manufacturing | 28,000 | El Segundo | 1945 |
| Tutor Perini Corp. | $4,757 | Construction Engineering | 10,000 | Sylmar (Los Angeles) | 1894 |
| Smart & Final | $4,571 | Food & Drug Stores | 11,900 | Commerce | 1871 |
| Company | Sales, 2017 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| KB Home | $4,369 | Homebuilders | 1,500 | Los Angeles | 1957 |
| Skechers U.S.A., Inc. | $4,181 | Apparel | 11,800 | Manhattan Beach | 1992 |
| Mercury General Corp. | $3,416 | Insurance | 4,200 | Los Angeles | 1961 |
| Colony Capital, Inc. | $2,842 | Private Equity Real Estate | 500 | Los Angeles | 1991 |
| Tetra Tech, Inc. | $2,753 | Construction Engineering | 16,000 | Pasadena | 1966 |
| Public Storage* | $2,669 | Storage Facilities | 5,500 | Glendale | 1972 |
| ASGN Inc. (formerly On Assignment) |
$2,626 | Temporary Help | 3,800 | Calabasas | 1985 |
| Company | Sales, 2017 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| Guess?, Inc. | $2,364 | Apparel | 14,700 | Los Angeles | 1981 |
| The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. | $2,261 | Restaurants | 37,600 | Calabasas Hills | 1972 |
| 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC | $2,194 | Discount Retail Stores | 15,000 | City of Commerce | 1969 |
| PCM, Inc. | $2,193 | Technology Retailers | 4,100 | El Segundo | 1987 |
| Oaktree Capital Group, LLC | $2,100 | Investment Advice | 7,500 | Los Angeles | 1995 |
| California Resources Corp. | $2,006 | Petroleum & Natural Gas | 1,400 | Los Angeles | 2014 |
| Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. | $1,877 | Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles | 4,800 | El Segundo | 1942 |
* Listed among S&P 500 companies.
** Parent company is Zurich Insurance Group.
Sources: Fortune Magazine and D&B Hoovers
VCA of Los Angeles (a chain of veterinarian clinics and hospitals) and Unified Grocers, Inc. of the City of Commerce (a wholesale grocer), both listed among the Fortune 500 in past years, were acquired by other companies in 2017. VCA was acquired by Mars, Inc. and Unified Grocers by SuperValu Inc.
DirecTV previously listed among Los Angeles County's largest public corporations, was merged into AT&T.
In 2015, Healthnet was purchased by Centene Corporation, based in St. Louis, Missouri.
Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., founded in Pasadena in 1947 by Joseph J. Jacobs, moved their headquarters in 2016 from Pasadena to Dallas, Texas.
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.
