Globe 100

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Publicly held companies based outside Massachusetts with a major presence in the state, ranked by composite performance.
2008 rank 2007 rank Company Composite score Return on average equity (%) 1-year change in revenue (%) 1-year change in profit margin (%) 2007 revenue (billions)
1 7 Hewlett-Packard Co. 52 20.7 14.4 5.2 $107.7
2 -- Cisco Systems 63 27.2 18.0 5.6 $37.7
3 1 IBM Corp. 65 36.6 8.1 2.4 $98.8
4 12 General Electric Co. 66 19.8 13.4 2.3 $169.7
5 -- CVS Caremark Corp. 67 12.8 74.2 11.1 $76.3
6 2 Best Buy Co. 72 30.7 17.1 -2.7 $39.5
7 -- Oracle Corp. 73 27.5 24.9 3.4 $20.1
8 24 Supervalu 81 10.1 38.5 19.0 $44.0
9 4 Wal-Mart Stores 83 20.4 8.6 -2.6 $378.6
10 -- General Dynamics Corp. 83 19.3 13.2 7.5 $27.2
11 19 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 85 16.0 11.1 8.9 $62.5
12 8 Walgreen Co. 85 19.1 11.9 0.5 $55.1
13 -- Adecco 87 27.5 3.3 16.5 $29.9
14 31 Intel Corp. 88 17.5 8.3 27.7 $38.3
15 -- AMR Corp. 89 49.1 1.5 115.0 $22.9
16 5 Procter & Gamble Co. 90 16.4 8.3 6.3 $79.7
17 16 Wyeth 97 28.1 10.1 -0.1 $22.4
18 -- Royal Philips Electronics 98 20.6 0.4 408.5 $38.0
19 -- Vedior 105 19.2 10.1 15.3 $12.0
20 10 Target Corp. 110 18.4 6.5 -4.0 $63.4
21 13 Starbucks Corp. 110 28.8 19.7 -7.8 $9.8
22 -- Abercrombie & Fitch Co. 112 31.5 13.0 -0.3 $3.7
23 28 Royal Ahold 113 17.7 1.2 13.6 $39.9
24 -- Manulife Financial Corp. 118 17.7 3.9 3.9 $34.5
25 -- Six Flags 124 205.6 2.9 13.0 $1.0
SOURCE: Standard & Poor's Compustat

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