Success is a formula. We’re going to review how each of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies have grown their wealth over the past 12 months. We will quickly see success isn’t about the industry you’re in but about having passionate goals. These were the top 50 companies in 2010.

Rank Company
1 Wal-Mart Stores
2 Royal Dutch Shell
3 Exxon Mobil
4 BP
5 Toyota Motor
6 Japan Post Holdings
7 Sinopec
8 State Grid
9 AXA
10 China National Petroleum
11 Chevron
12 ING Group
13 General Electric
14 Total
15 Bank of America Corp.
16 Volkswagen
17 ConocoPhillips
18 BNP Paribas
19 Assicurazioni Generali
20 Allianz
21 AT&T
22 Carrefour
23 Ford Motor
24 ENI
25 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
26 Hewlett-Packard
27 E.ON
28 Berkshire Hathaway
29 GDF Suez
30 Daimler
31 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone
32 Samsung Electronics
33 Citigroup
34 McKesson
35 Verizon Communications
36 Crédit Agricole
37 Banco Santander
38 General Motors
39 HSBC Holdings
40 Siemens
41 American International Group
42 Lloyds Banking Group
43 Cardinal Health
44 Nestlé
45 CVS Caremark
46 Wells Fargo
47 Hitachi
48 International Business Machines
49 Dexia Group
50 Gazprom

Source: Money – CNN