Growth 50 |
| 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

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