[snozolli]

Verisign has a profit of around $1B with around 1k employees.

Ingersoll Rand has around 18k employees. SBI holdings has around 19k. Beiersdorf has around 21k.

I don't know what the author was thinking or why it was phrased that way, but Verisign seems vastly more profitable per employee than others on the list. Also, I have no idea why they even need ~1k employees.

[nv-vn]

Tbf, this is page 13 of the list. If you go to the first page, Saudi Aramco made $230B with 73k employees according to their website. This is still ~3x as much profits/employee as VeriSign. FAANGs are pretty comparable as well. It's definitely a very profitable company _per employee_, but I fail to find a metric where Verisign can be described as the most profitable public company