Operating revenue
What a company earned from its ordinary business during the accounting period, before any costs are taken off.
Operating revenue is a company's total income from ordinary trading: sales of goods, sales of its own products and services, and other operating income. It excludes financial income such as interest or exchange-rate gains.
It is the most common measure of company size and the figure rankings are built on. Read it carefully, though: high revenue says nothing about whether a company is profitable. A trading company turning over tens of millions can earn less than a small consultancy.
Revenue is reported for an accounting period. For most companies that matches the calendar year, but it need not — a company may run a financial year offset from it.
Operating revenue in figures
The ranking fills up as companies with published statements arrive.
Where this figure comes from
Profit and loss statement, the total operating revenue line. We take the value exactly as the company filed it.