National 50

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

2010 rank	2009 rank	Company	Composite score	Return on average equity (%)	1-year change in revenue (%)	1-year change in profit margin (%)	2009 revenue (billions)
1	3	Wal-Mart Stores	56	21.192	0.950	5.971	$408,214.0
2	22	Target Corp.	68	17.124	0.630	11.673	$65,357.0
3	1	IBM Corp.	68	74.373	-7.596	17.793	$95,758.0
4	7	CVS Caremark Corp.	68	10.571	12.869	1.945	$98,729.0
5	4	Hewlett Packard Co.	69	19.834	-1.501	1.549	$116,922.0
6	50	Manulife Financial Corp.	72	4.965	21.525	123.147	$36,872.6
7	12	Best Buy Co.	74	21.965	9.508	-13.522	$47,865.0
8	10	Walgreen Co.	80	15.040	8.005	-8.377	$64,752.0
9	53	Royal Bank of Scotland Group	83	-5.136	49.567	93.785	$61,766.1
10	5	Novartis	83	15.603	6.773	-3.173	$44,267.0
11	16	Securitas	86	24.446	10.774	0.982	$8,549.5
12	9	General Dynamics Corp.	86	21.418	9.150	-10.805	$31,981.0
13	14	McDonald's Corp.	87	33.199	-3.306	9.121	$22,744.7
14	23	Comcast Corp.	87	8.748	4.379	36.843	$35,756.0
15	42	Starbucks Corp.	88	19.138	-3.406	242.476	$9,882.1
16	6	Oracle Corp.	88	23.046	-1.279	2.212	$23,225.0
17	36	Home Depot	89	14.097	-7.171	26.839	$66,176.0
18	48	Bank of America Corp.	89	-1.321	64.385	-4.744	$119,643.0
19	8	Procter & Gamble Co.	91	16.835	-4.585	-2.848	$77,913.0
20	13	Verizon Communications Corp.	93	8.765	10.738	-48.709	$107,808.0
21	24	Delhaize Group	94	11.857	4.804	2.073	$28,179.6
22	25	Sodexho	95	17.767	7.861	-3.097	$20,749.6
23	11	National Grid	97	19.708	36.777	-61.650	$24,942.7
24	37	Kohl's Corp.	98	13.583	4.814	6.834	$17,178.0
25	41	Rite Aid Corp.	104	646.711	-1.869	-67.818	$25,912.9
26	49	Supervalu	105	3.162	-4.346	103.976	$42,212.0
27	47	Sears Holding Corp.	105	2.544	-5.831	370.850	$44,043.0
28	51	Wendy's/Arby's Group	106	0.149	96.451	100.537	$3,580.8
29	2	United Parcel Service	109	29.868	-12.021	-18.547	$45,297.0
30	52	IHOP Corp.	109	53.685	-12.374	123.206	$1,414.0
31	29	AMR Corp.	109	45.704	-16.195	17.295	$19,917.0
32	38	Whole Foods Market	110	7.758	3.028	52.859	$8,204.3
33	27	Lowe's	110	9.606	-2.094	-17.032	$47,220.0
34	55	Macy's	113	7.489	-5.636	107.722	$23,489.0
35	39	Healthcare Services Group	113	14.785	14.929	-0.801	$692.7
36	45	Royal Philips Electronics	116	2.721	-12.113	596.285	$32,774.5
37	17	Cisco Systems	119	15.503	-10.214	-9.779	$35,533.0
38	35	Toronto-Dominion Bank	120	9.069	13.038	-27.990	$14,139.7
39	54	Sun Life Financial	120	3.404	77.164	-59.531	$25,348.5
40	15	General Electric Co.	122	9.838	-13.902	-26.450	$155,777.0
41	-	JetBlue Airways Corp	123	4.135	-3.011	170.353	$3,286.0
42	34	Intel Corp.	126	10.754	-6.542	-11.662	$35,127.0
43	26	ABM Industries	138	7.939	-4.389	3.735	$3,464.2
44	33	Town Sports International Holdings	146	151.937	-4.207	-353.185	$485.4
45	40	Cheesecake Factory	146	8.844	-0.273	-17.866	$1,602.0
46	19	Adidas	153	6.846	-3.871	-60.425	$14,672.1
47	18	Six Flags	155	50.172	-10.618	-113.984	$912.9
48	60	O'Charleys	155	-3.481	-5.404	94.156	$880.8
49	43	J.C. Penney Co.	155	5.575	-5.031	-53.794	$17,556.0
50	59	New York Times Co.	156	0.281	-16.985	141.427	$2,440.4