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The 2007 Globe 100 | The Best of Massachusetts Business

Most profitable

Ranked by profit margin in 2006

	Company	Revenue (millions)	Net income (millions)	Profit margin (percent)
1	TC Pipelines	$63.4	$44.7	70.5
2	First Marblehead Corp.	$794.7	$352.2	44.3
3	Palomar Medical Technologies	$126.5	$53.0	41.9
4	Aspect Medical Systems	$91.3	$37.1	40.6
5	Hittite Microwave Corp.	$130.3	$42.7	32.8
6	Massbank Corp.	$23.1	$7.0	30.5
7	Brookline Bancorp	$71.5	$20.8	29.1
8	Hingham Institution for Savings	$17.3	$4.6	26.8
9	Independent Bank Corp.	$127.0	$32.9	25.9
10	Lightbridge	$95.6	$24.3	25.4

SOURCE: Standard & Poor's Compustat

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