Top 10 US Trading Companies by Revenue

Ranked by total revenue, the leading US-based trading houses span commodities, agriculture, energy, and retail:

1. Cargill – Agribusiness, food, industrial products (private, ~$165B)
2. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) – Oilseeds, corn, nutrition (~$94B)
3. Koch Industries – Energy, chemicals, commodities, ranching (private, ~$125B)
4. Glencore – Metals, minerals, energy, agri (Swiss-headquartered, major US ops, ~$220B)
5. Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) – Grains, oilseeds, coffee, cotton (private, ~$50B)
6. Bunge – Oilseeds, grains, sugar, biofuels (~$67B)
7. Gavilon – Grain, fertilizer, feed ingredients (Marubeni-owned, ~$30B)
8. Tesco PLC – UK retailer with significant US trading/sourcing ops (~$80B global)
9. Walmart – Global sourcing/procurement scale exceeds pure traders (~$611B)
10. Costco – Direct importing, private-label trading (~$227B)

Note: "Trading company" definitions vary. Pure commodity merchants (Cargill, ADM, LDC, Bunge) differ from vertically integrated retailers (Walmart, Costco) and diversified industrials (Koch). Glencore is Swiss but US-traded and US-active.