National 25

Publicly held companies based outside Massachusetts with a major presence in the state, ranked by composite performance.

2009 rank	2008 rank	Company	Composite score	Return on average equity (%)	1-year change in revenue (%)	1-year change in profit margin (%)	2008 revenue (billions)
1	3	IBM Corp.	41	58.8	4.9	12.9	$103.6
2	53	United Parcel Service	50	31.7	3.6	658.7	$51.4
3	9	Wal-Mart Stores	53	20.4	7.2	-3.9	$405.6
4	1	Hewlett Packard Co.	53	20.8	10.2	-7.0	$118.7
5	34	Novartis	63	16.3	8.9	14.5	$41.4
6	7	Oracle Corp.	63	27.3	17.1	2.7	$23.5
7	5	CVS Caremark Corp.	64	10.2	14.6	10.8	$87.5
8	10	General Dynamics Corp.	65	22.7	7.6	10.8	$29.3
9	16	Procter & Gamble Co.	65	18.0	6.2	2.6	$83.7
10	12	Walgreen Co.	67	17.1	8.8	-6.2	$59.9
11	29	National Grid	67	33.3	31.4	-7.3	$19.6
12	6	Best Buy Co.	69	28.2	10.6	-26.2	$43.7
13	27	Verizon Communications	71	13.9	4.2	12.0	$97.3
14	46	McDonald's Corp.	74	30.1	3.2	78.9	$23.5
15	4	General Electric Co.	75	16.4	6.8	-24.9	$180.9
16	55	Securitas	76	21.9	9.8	27.4	$8.1
17	2	Cisco Systems	83	21.5	5.0	-11.6	$39.6
18	25	Six Flags	87	34.2	5.2	56.6	$1.0
19	28	Adidas	92	20.0	4.9	11.1	$15.3
20	31	United Group Ltd.	95	15.9	36.5	3.6	$2.7
21	17	Wyeth	99	23.6	1.9	-6.1	$22.8
22	20	Target Corp.	100	15.3	2.5	-24.2	$64.9
23	30	Comcast Corp.	102	6.2	10.9	-11.2	$34.3
24	54	Delhaize Group	105	12.2	0.4	21.9	$27.0
25	22	Sodexho	106	17.0	1.7	6.6	$19.3