RBC is Canada’s most profitable company. (Machado Noa/LightRocket/Getty)
Canadian Business’s annual Investor 500 stock ranking typically sorts stocks by their one-year return on investment, but there are lots of other ways to rank the leading companies of the TSX.
Here are the most profitable publicly traded companies in Canada:
| Rank | Company | Ticker | 1-Year* Profit (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Bank of Canada | RY | $9,277 |
| 2 | Toronto-Dominion Bank | TD | $7,794 |
| 3 | Bank of Nova Scotia | BNS | $7,095 |
| 4 | Bank of Montreal | BNO | $4,215 |
| 5 | Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. | CNQ | $3,929 |
| 6 | Encana Corp. | ECA | $3,704 |
| 7 | Manulife Financial Corp. | MFC | $3,501 |
| 8 | Brookfield Asset Management Inc. | BAM.A | $3,445 |
| 9 | Imperial Oil Ltd. | IMO | $3,260 |
| 10 | Canadian National Railway Co. | CNR | $3,248 |
| 11 | CIBC | CM | $2,964 |
| 12 | Great-West Lifeco Inc. | GWO | $2,668 |
| 13 | BCE Inc. | BCE | $2,422 |
| 14 | Power Financial Corp. | PWF | $2,268 |
| 15 | Thomson Reuters Corp. | TRI | $2,205 |
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