Only 53 US Companies Have Been on the Fortune 500 since 1955, Thanks to the Creative Destruction That Fuels Economic Prosperity

Comparing the 1955 Fortune 500 companies to the 2018 Fortune 500, there are only 53 companies that appear in both lists and have remained on the list since it started. In other words, fewer than 11 percent of the Fortune 500 companies in 1955 have remained on the list during the 63 years since.