The Mercury News in San Jose compiles business data on the Top 150 companies in the Valley. Fascinating reading: in 2007, Adaptec dropped the most in sales by percentage (-35.1%) and AMD the most in profits by percentage (-1933%).
Who Made the Most in 2007?
| 2007 | 2006 | COMPANY | NET PROFIT (IN MILLIONS) |
| 1 | 3 | Cisco Systems | $8,069.0 |
| 2 | 1 | Hewlett-Packard | 7,850.0 |
| 3 | 2 | Intel | 6,976.0 |
| 4 | 5 | Oracle | 5,087.0 |
| 5 | 6 | 4,203.7 | |
| 6 | 4 | Apple | 4,073.0 |
| 7 | 10 | Calpine | 2,693.0 |
| 8 | 14 | Franklin Resources | 1,864.5 |
| 9 | 20 | Gilead Sciences | 1,615.3 |
| 10 | 9 | Applied Materials | 1,569.1 |
| 11 | 24 | Adobe Systems | 799.3 |
| 12 | 21 | Nvidia | 797.6 |
| 13 | 7 | Sun Microsystems | 745.0 |
| 14 | 13 | Yahoo | 660.0 |
| 15 | 17 | Agilent | 608.0 |
| The SV150 companies held about $165 billion in cash and short-term investments at the end of 2007. The five companies with the biggest bank accounts, listed below, accounted for $76 billion of the total, or 46 percent. (That was cash left over even after the five spent among them $17 billion on research and development, $12.5 billion on capital expenses and $25 billion buying back their own shares!) Cash assets held | |
| (Total cash and % of change) | 1 yr chg. |
| Cisco Systems $22.3 billion | 25% |
| Apple $15.4 billion | 52% |
| Google $14.2 billion | 26% |
| Intel $12.8 billion | 44% |
| Hewlett-Packard $11.4 billion | -30% |
Go Silicon Valley 150
