French stocks raking in the cash

Greed is good, said Gordon Gekko, but that distilled essence of corporate desire is not a large office, private plane or other trappings of management — it is instead pure crystalized profit. And so net income sits as the beating heart of our capitalist world — denoting a company's income excluding all of its expenses. It's a marker of how well a business is generating cash, and how well it's managing expenses. And on this list are the biggest of the big net income generating businesses in France.