2010 Globe 100 - The Best of Massachusetts Business

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.
2010 rank 2009 rank Company Composite score 2-year average
revenue growth (percent)
2-year average
income growth (percent)
1 9 NetScout Systems 7 35.5 132.7
2 3 Pegasystems 9 27.7 121.0
3 5 VistaPrint Ltd. 9 35.9 49.4
4 - Cubist Pharmaceuticals 14 38.1 28.6
5 - Netezza Corp. 15 22.7 45.0
6 24 American Science and Engineering 26 15.6 25.2
7 6 Biogen Idec 26 17.5 23.3
8 - Sapient Corp. 27 8.5 140.7
9 12 American Tower Corp. 28 8.8 109.3
10 4 Akamai Technologies 29 16.2 20.2
11 - Berkshire Income Realty 32 8.7 41.5
12 10 Senior Housing Properties Trust 34 25.8 13.4
13 41 Boston Beer Co. 40 9.6 17.6
14 52 TJX Cos. 44 5.2 25.4
15 23 Haemonetics Corp. 44 12.7 8.6
16 - Skyworks Solutions 45 5.2 23.9
17 19 UniFirst Corp. 48 4.2 29.7
18 43 Iron Mountain 51 5.1 20.1
19 14 Atlantic Tele-Network 51 13.8 -3.2
20 47 Acme Packet 57 11.9 -6.5
21 73 HRPT Properties Trust 60 4.4 15.1
22 - Genzyme Corp. 61 8.8 -6.2
23 - Sonesta International Hotels Corp. 62 -5.7 334.8
24 20 UFP Technologies 62 3.0 19.4
25 32 BJ's Wholesale Club 62 6.3 3.7
26 - New England Realty Associates 63 3.0 16.6
27 16 Millipore Corp. 64 3.9 13.9
28 7 Parexel International Corp. 64 10.1 -11.7
29 22 MicroFinancial 64 20.7 -18.4
30 39 Beacon Roofing Supply 66 -0.8 38.4
31 21 Interactive Data Corp. 66 4.8 5.9
32 36 Staples 68 11.9 -13.9
33 13 Aware 69 -8.7 147.7
34 29 Clean Harbors 69 6.5 -8.9
35 11 Forrester Research 70 4.9 -0.2
36 31 Anika Therapeutics 73 14.1 -21.8
37 42 Mac-Gray Corp. 74 5.0 -8.4
38 34 Raytheon Co. 75 8.1 -12.5
39 25 Waters Corp. 77 0.9 9.8
40 - Monotype Imaging Holdings 78 -5.4 21.6
41 17 Phase Forward 78 26.0 -47.5
42 1 Thermo Fisher Scientific 79 1.8 5.7
43 2 Bruker Corp. 83 3.9 -9.4
44 18 Hittite Microwave Corp. 84 2.1 -5.1
45 8 Zoll Medical Corp. 84 9.3 -28.3
46 60 Hingham Institution for Savings 86 -20.8 33.9
47 46 iRobot Corp. 87 9.5 -39.4
48 59 NStar 88 -3.3 6.9
49 68 Hanover Insurance Group 91 2.9 -11.7
50 - SeaChange International 95 5.9 -32.5
SOURCE: Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business