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Notes
Infomation for The Globe 100 was collected and analyzed by Compustat, a product of Standard & Poor's Institutional Market Services. Criteria for rankings were developed by The Boston Globe.
Compustat gathered information on 400 Massachusetts-based companies who's stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange, or the American Stock Exchange. Real Estate investment trusts, royalty trusts, limited partnerships, and closed-end funds were excluded. Compustat collectes its data from Securities and Exchange Commission filings, commercial news services and corporate and government reports.
A company's rankings are derived from financial data fro the four quarters ending closest to Dec. 31, 1999, and for corresponding quarters a year earlier.
Revenue for banks is calculated by adding net interest income after loan-loss provisions to total non-interest income.
Net income, or prifit, equals net income from continuing operations, before extraordinary or non-recuring items, as filed on the company's income statement. Net income reflects income available to common shareholders. If a company includeds special charges, such as merger costs, in its pretax figures, the numbers will not be considered extraordinary and will be included in net income. (This occures most often in pooling of interests.)
Profit margin is determined by dividing net income by revenue. The one-year charge is profit margin is calculated by computing percentage change in profit margin between 1998 and 1999. Return on shareholders' equity is determined by dividing 1999 net income by average of 1998 and 1999 common shareholders' equity.
All stock prices have been adjusted for splits.
To be ranked in any of The Globe 100 charts a company must have its headquarters in Massachusetts.
To be considered for The Globe 100, a company must have been public for all of 1999, reported 1999 revenue of at least $25 million, and not reported a loss in either 1998 or 1999.
To be considered for The Growth 50, a company must have been public in both 1998 and 1999. Companies are ranked by a composite score of a 2-year average annual sales growth rate. They must have had sales of at least $10 million in 1998 and a net income of at least $1 million in 1998.
For all stock market charts, the company could have gone public any time during 1999. Market value is as fo March 31, 2000. To be considered for the Market Value 1000, a company's stock must have traded on March 31, 2000. at $1 or more a share.
The Top 50 Employers are Massachusetts-based public companies ranked by total worldwide work force.
The 400 companies researched were broken into 12 sectors: banking, biotechnology, consumer goods, electronics, financial services, health care, manufacturing/industrial, retail/restaurant/entertainment, service, technology, telecommunications, and utilities.
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