Growth 50

To be considered for the Growth 50, a company must have been publicly traded for two full years and must have reported profits in all periods.

2009 rank	2008 rank	Company	Composite score	2-year average revenue growth (percent)	2-year average income growth (percent)
1	2	Thermo Fisher Scientific	6	66.4	143.8
2	15	Bruker Corp.	10	59.4	87.4
3	24	Pegasystems	11	29.6	144.1
4	51	Akamai Technologies	15	35.8	59.0
5	3	VistaPrint Ltd.	17	52.8	38.8
6	19	Biogen IDEC	17	23.6	91.4
7	-	Parexel International Corp.	25	23.7	36.3
8	7	Zoll Medical Corp.	26	23.2	36.9
9	50	NetScout Systems	36	60.2	13.1
10	53	Senior Housing Properties Trust	36	16.3	26.9
11	32	Forrester Research	37	15.2	34.9
12	-	American Tower Corp.	39	10.0	188.7
13	-	Aware	44	12.6	31.1
14	8	Atlantic Tele-Network	45	15.5	21.7
15	-	L.S. Starrett Co.	46	7.5	311.8
16	20	Millipore Corp.	50	13.0	22.6
17	6	Phase Forward	51	26.3	5.9
18	9	Hittite Microwave Corp.	51	17.6	12.3
19	63	UniFirst Corp.	52	10.9	23.5
20	35	UFP Technologies	53	8.3	42.6
21	47	Interactive Data Corp.	54	10.7	23.6
22	-	MicroFinancial	55	10.7	23.3
23	72	Haemonetics Corp.	57	14.8	13.0
24	82	American Science and Engineering	61	17.1	-1.4
25	48	Waters Corp.	61	10.9	20.5
26	10	Sepracor	61	4.5	73.5
27	37	EMC Corp.	62	15.5	4.7
28	11	Global Partners	64	42.0	-20.7
29	31	Clean Harbors	66	11.5	11.3
30	74	Progress Software Corp.	66	7.4	25.5
31	80	Anika Therapeutics	69	15.5	-11.2
32	78	BJ's Wholesale Club	69	8.7	20.9
33	-	Alkermes	70	-6.7	248.7
34	46	Raytheon Co.	71	6.9	23.0
35	39	PerkinElmer	72	11.9	3.3
36	58	Staples	73	12.7	-9.1
37	66	State Street Corp.	73	4.5	27.8
38	30	Parametric Technology Corp.	75	10.4	7.4
39	52	Beacon Roofing Supply	75	9.6	9.0
40	21	Chase Corp.	78	6.0	20.8
41	33	Boston Beer Co.	81	20.1	-33.3
42	90	Mac-Gray Corp.	81	14.1	-20.5
43	40	Iron Mountain	81	14.0	-20.2
44	36	Eaton Vance Corp.	81	6.3	15.0
45	67	Berkshire Hills Bancorp	81	-11.1	42.9
46	5	iRobot Corp.	84	27.6	-54.0
47	-	Acme Packet	84	17.6	-36.7
48	22	Hospitality Properties Trust	90	10.7	-16.4
49	83	Century Bancorp	90	-22.9	38.9
50	55	Harvard Bioscience	92	7.5	-9.6