BusinessWeek top 50 performers

How do they picked the 50 best companies?
They first focused on two core financial measures: average return on capital and growth, both take over the previous 36 months For their measures of profits for nonfinancial companies, they used earnings before inertest and taxes. The earning measure excludes distortion from special and nonoperating items as defined by their data provider Standard Poor’s Compustat

No. 1 Gilhead Sciences
Industry Pharmaceutical
CEO John Martin
Sales $5.3B
Net income $2B

No. 2 CF Industries Holdings
Industry
Fertilizers
CEO Stephen Wilson
Sales $3.9B
Net income $685M

No. 3 Diamond Offshore
Industry
Energy equipment and services
CEO Lawrence Dickerson
Sales $35.B
Net income
$1.5B

No.4 Windstream
Industry
Telecommunication Services
CEO Jeff Gardner
Sales $3.2B
Net Income
$435M

No.5 Colgate-Palmolive
Industry
Consumer staples
CEO Ian Cook

Sales $25.3
Net Income $2B

No, 6 CH Robinson Worldwide
Industry
Transportation
Sales $8.6B
Net Income 395.2M

No.7 Exelon
Industry
Utilities
CEO John Rowe
Sales 18.9B
Net Income 2.7B

No.8 Microsoft
Industry Software and services
CEO Steve Ballmer
Sales $62B
Net Income
$17.2B

No.9 Best buy
Industry
Electronics Retailer
CEO Brian Dunn
Sales $43.7B
Net income $1.2B

No. 10. Mastercard
Industry
Credit-card services
CEO Robert Selander
Sales $5B
Net income
-$253M

No. 11 Precision Castparts
Industry
Aerospace and Defense
CEO Mark Donegan
Sales $7B
Net income $1B

No. 12 Varian Medical System
Industry
Health care
CEO Tim Guertin
Sales $2.1B
Net Income $307M

No. 13 Avon Products
Industry
Personal Products
CEO Andrea Jung
Sales $10.7B
Net Income 853M

No. 14 Schlumberger
Industry
Energy Services
CEO Andrew Gould
Sales 27.2B
Net Income $5.4B

No.15 Apple
Industry personal Electronics
CEO Steve Jobs
Sales $33B
Net income $3.9B

No. 16 Coach
Industry
Handbag & Accessory
CEO Lew Frankfort
Sales $3.2B
Net Income $739M

No.17 Intercontinental Exchange
Industry
Specialized Finance
CEO Jeffery Sprecher
Sales $813M
Net Income $301M

No. 18, Questar
Industry
Utilities
CEO Keith Rattie
Sales $3.5B
Net Income $684M

No. 19 Fastenal
Industry
Industrial parts
CEO Willard Oberton
Sales $2.3B
Net Income $280M

No.20 Nucor
Industry
Metals
CEO Daniel R. Di Micco
Sales $23.7B
Net income $1.8B

No. 21 Verizon
No.22 Express Scripts
No.23 Amazon.com
Mo.24 MEMC Electronics Materials
No.25 CB Richard Ellis group
No.26 Coco-Cola
No. 27 Apollo Group
No. 28 Expeditors International Washington
No. 29 Noble
No. 30 Nasdaq OMX group
No. 31 Cognizant Technology Solutions
No. 32 Starbucks
No. 33 Waters
No. 34 WQT
No. 35 Google
No. 36 CME group
No. 37 Manitowoc
No. 38 AT&T
No. 39 Allegheny Technologies
No. 40 PepsiCo
No. 41 Intuitive Surgical
No. 42 Nike
No. 43 Occidental petroleum
No. 44 PNC Financial Services
No. 45 Robert Half International
No. 47 TJX
No. 48 AES
No. 49 Northern Trust
No. 50 Abercrombie & Fitch


We can not not see any Semionductor houses at all. There is only Apple represenating the personal electronics section.
Automobile is gone.


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