Fortune published its 2026 Global 500 on July 28, listing the world’s largest public and private companies by revenue for the 2025 fiscal year. In that ranking, healthcare accounted for 31 companies, making it the fifth-largest sector by company count on the list.
Sectors with larger representation were financials (123 companies), energy (77), technology (38) and motor vehicles and parts (35), according to Fortune. These figures position healthcare behind those four sectors in terms of how many individual firms from each industry appear among the top 500 global revenue generators.
The Fortune Global 500 ranks companies by annual revenue, using the companies’ fiscal-year numbers for 2025 in the 2026 list. Becker’s Hospital Review summarized the high-level results, emphasizing the count of healthcare companies on the list and how the sector compared to others by number of entrants.
The source material available for this summary provides the sector-level counts and the publication date, but does not include the complete roster of the 31 healthcare organizations, nor does it report individual company revenues, exact placements on the Global 500, or year-to-year movement for those healthcare firms. Those specifics were not reported in the source excerpt.
Counting how many companies from a sector appear on the Global 500 gives a sense of that industry’s scale among the world’s largest revenue earners. With 31 entries, healthcare shows substantive global commercial weight, even if it trails sectors such as financials and energy in sheer company count. The Global 500 list is revenue-focused, so a sector’s representation reflects the number of large revenue-generating firms it contains rather than measures such as market capitalization, employment, or R&D spend.
For readers following healthcare industry size and global footprint, the 31-company tally confirms that major healthcare organizations remain prominent players in the global corporate economy. The ranking also provides a standardized, revenue-based snapshot that can be useful for benchmarking and trend-watching when full company-level data are consulted.
Becker’s Hospital Review reported the headline figures from Fortune’s list: the publication date (July 28), the ranking’s basis (2025 fiscal-year revenue), and the sector counts that show healthcare as the fifth-largest sector with 31 companies. Beyond those points, the available source excerpt did not supply the identity of those healthcare companies, their individual revenues, which companies were new to or dropped from the Global 500, or any regional breakdowns.
Readers who need company-level detail — for example, which hospitals, pharmaceutical firms, insurers or medical-device makers made the list and where they ranked — will need to consult Fortune’s full Global 500 publication or the complete Becker’s Hospital Review article. The excerpted source does not provide those specifics.
Fortune’s full Global 500 release typically includes company names, revenues, headquarters, and sometimes short notes about notable changes. For a fuller understanding of healthcare’s position in the 2026 list, seek out the complete Fortune Global 500 listing or the unabridged Becker’s Hospital Review piece that may reproduce or analyze the healthcare companies on the list.
Because the available source focused on the sector-level counts and the overall ranking methodology, follow-up reporting can fill in gaps such as:
The 2026 Fortune Global 500, released July 28, used 2025 fiscal-year revenues to rank companies worldwide. According to the Becker’s Hospital Review summary of Fortune’s list, 31 healthcare companies made the Global 500, placing healthcare as the fifth-largest sector by company count behind financials, energy, technology and motor vehicles and parts. The source excerpt does not include the full list of those healthcare organizations or their specific revenue figures.
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