Like us, you may have seen news this week about Teva Pharmaceuticals’ painful second-quarter earnings—including a $6.1 billion goodwill impairment charge for its U.S. generics unit. Ouch.

That charge ranks as the third-largest impairment charge in the last few years. We zipped over to our Data Query Tool, looked up all impairment charges from 2014 through second-quarter 2017, and ranked the top 10 by dollar amount. The latest lineup…

It’s worth noting that several companies on this list no longer exist as independent businesses. Yahoo was acquired by Verizon; Baker Hughes is now part of General Electric.


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