Quick on the heels of the vaunted Fortune 500 list of the biggest U.S. manufacturing companies comes two other lists, both of which contend they do a better job of measuring bigness than Fortune magazine.
For the 19th consecutive year, Forbes Magazine next Monday will publish its list of the 500 biggest companies in market value. And for the second year in a row, Business Week, on April 17, will publish its list of the 1,000 biggest companies in market value, which is a company's per-share stock market price times the number of shares outstanding.
