Canada’s Top Companies Power-Performers on World Stage, Too

April 26, 2010 · 7 comments

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dundas_square_toflo62 of Canada’s top companies made it into the recently updated Forbes Global 2000 list of the 2000 highest performing companies around the world.  This year’s list saw Canada, China and India’s companies in particular climbing the ranks.  The U.S. and Japan still dominate the list, but they are diminishing in number each year.

I doubt that this list will represent a 1:1 relationship with Canada’s TSX 60 Index (a group of the 60-largest publicly traded companies in Canada), but Canadian investors are guaranteed to know most of the names on Forbes’ Global High Performers list.

Canadian Companies on the S&P/TSX Composite

Top 10 Canadian Companies

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The ranking of Canada’s companies ranged from #53 out of 2000 (Royal Bank of Canada) to #1970 out of 2000 (Agnico-Eagle Mines).  Here they are, in consecutive order (but I’ll refrain from including the rank of each of their individual positions).

Royal Bank (TSX: RY)
Toronto Dominion (TSX: TD)
Bank of Nova Scotia (TSX: BNS)
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*these three all landed in the top 100

Manulife (TSX: MFC)
Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO)
Suncor (TSX: SU)
CIBC (TSX: CM)
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*these four all landed in the top 200

Wondering which Canadian bank to invest in?

SunLife (TSX: SLF)
BCE (TSX: BCE)
Power Corp. (TSX: POW)
Canadian Natural Resources (TSX: CNQ)
Encana (TSX: ECA)
Thompson Reuters (TSX: TRI)
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*these six made the top 300

Top 45 Canadian Income Trusts and REITs

Canadian Businesses in Forbes 2000 (cont’d)

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HuskyEnergy (TSX: HSE)
TransCanada Pipelines (TSX: TRP)
Enbridge (TSX: ENB)
Teck Resources (TSX: TCK.B)
Canadian National (TSX: CN)
Research in Motion (TSX: RIM)
Brookfield Asset Management (TSX: BAM.A)
Rogers Communications (TSX: RCI.B)
George Weston (TSX: WN)
Bombardier (TSX: BBD.B)
Cenovus Energy (TSX: CVE)
National Bank (TSX: NA)
Telus (TSX: T)*

*these made the world’s top 500 companies

Talisman Energy (TSX: TLM)
Fairfax Financial (TSX: FFH)
Nexen (TSX: NXY)
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT)
Barrick Gold (TSX: B)
Agrium (TSX: AGU)
Shoppers Drug Mart (TSX: SC)
Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX: CP)
Goldcorp (TSX: G)
Domtar (TSX: UFS)
Magna International (TSX: MG.A)
Cameco (TSX: CCO)
Shaw Comm. (TSX: SJR.B)
Onex (TSX: OCX)
SNC Lavalin (TSX: SNC)
Canadian Tire (TSX: CTC)
Kinross (TSX: K)
Metro Inc. (TSX: MRU.A)
Industrial Alliance Insurance (TSX: IAG)
Saputo (TSX: SAP)
Alimentation Couche Tard (TSX: ATD.B)
Empire (TSX: EMP.A)
Fortis (TSX: FTS)
Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI)
Air Canada (TSX: AC.A)
Nortel Networks (TSX: NT)
Intact Financial (TSX: IFC)
CGI Group (TSX: GIB.A)
Tim Horton’s (TSX: THI)
Quebecor (TSX: QBR.A)
Atco (TSX: ACO.X)
TransAlta (TSX: TA)
Sino Forest (TSX: TRE)
Laurentian Bank (TSX: LB)
Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD)
Agnico-Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM)

From an employee’s point of view, the list of the world’s top 2000 companies might also be interesting as a research tool for your next position.

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{ 7 comments }

1 Financial Cents April 26, 2010 at 4:30 pm

GREAT post! Great to see some of our good dividend-payers in the list!

2 MoneyEnergy April 26, 2010 at 7:14 pm

@FC – thanks – yes – all the usual suspects!:) Proud of our companies and our economy. We are developed and regulated but we’re lucky to have the growth of an emerging market (even if not by as much). Part of it is luck (resources and materials), but part of it is fiscal common sense, and not a lot of other countries share in that. eg., banking culture in Canada is very different than banking culture in the U.S. – there’s more to it than the simple fact of regulation.

3 David at seo-writer.ca April 26, 2010 at 7:43 pm

No surprise the banks dominate. I wonder what was our number last year, since you say that Canada is gaining more berths on this list. In fact, a great follow-up might be a trend graph of how many positions Canada has had over the years and also of what the average rank of our big 5 banks has been over the years.

4 Guy G. April 27, 2010 at 4:33 am

Yeah for \Husky Energy!
Seeing them on the list reminds me of my dad, who loves to go to their restaurant for a big meal once in a while. When he does, he talks about it for ever. As for tips on budgeting, once in a while is the key phrase. He may only go every few months, but his raving about it makes the experience last for ever.
Way to go to all the other great Canadian companies as well.

Cheers,
Guy

5 MoneyEnergy April 28, 2010 at 12:37 am

@Guy – Husky has restaurants? Didn’t know that, interesting!

6 Ulysses April 28, 2010 at 1:13 pm

I like the idea of getting in to the market most specially in this type of economy most of the indices are low and good to get in and hold for the upswing.

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