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Ranked by absolute dollar change from loss to profit in 2006

	Company	2006 net income (millions)	2005 net income (millions)	Change (millions)
1	Teradyne	$202.6	-60.5	$263.1
2	Cabot Corp.	$119.0	-64.0	$183.0
3	American Tower Corp.	$28.3	-143.9	$172.3
4	LTX Corp.	$23.6	-61.7	$85.3
5	Aspen Technology	$20.6	-52.4	$73.0
6	Brooks Automation	$54.6	-16.1	$70.7
7	Parexel International Corp.	$31.2	-38.5	$69.8
8	Axcelis Technologies	$40.8	-3.9	$44.6
9	Avici Systems	$8.3	-24.7	$32.9
10	Friendly Ice Cream Corp.	$1.5	-27.6	$29.1