2011 Globe 100

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.
2011 rank 2010 rank Company Composite score 2-year average
revenue growth (percent)
2-year average
income growth (percent)
1 - Technical Communications Corp. 3 74.6 241.6
2 20 Acme Packet 10 41.0 92.8
3 47 iRobot Corp. 15 14.2 480.9
4 34 Clean Harbors 17 29.6 50.7
5 - Harvard Bioscience 22 10.8 237.1
6 6 American Science and Engineering 24 17.9 41.1
7 49 Hanover Insurance Group 27 8.4 174.1
8 3 VistaPrint Ltd. 30 25.1 22.2
9 13 Boston Beer Co. 37 6.1 149.0
10 70 Analog Devices 37 8.7 35.9
11 16 Skyworks Solutions 39 16.3 21.4
12 73 IPG Photonics Corp. 41 14.3 21.4
13 44 Hittite Microwave Corp. 41 16.4 19.6
14 69 Boston Properties 42 10.7 22.9
15 1 NetScout Systems 43 4.8 88.3
16 19 Atlantic Tele-Network 45 72.8 5.1
17 36 Anika Therapeutics 47 24.6 9.1
18 14 TJX Cos. 48 7.5 23.5
19 50 SeaChange International 49 3.6 71.9
20 - Kopin Corp. 50 2.4 85.9
21 24 UFP Technologies 51 4.8 34.4
22 43 Bruker Corp. 51 8.6 21.2
23 12 Senior Housing Properties Trust 55 20.2 4.6
24 52 EMC Corp. 56 6.9 22.1
25 10 Akamai Technologies 57 13.8 8.6
26 66 Analogic Corp. 58 2.5 30.1
27 7 Biogen Idec 62 7.3 13.3
28 9 American Tower Corp. 65 11.6 3.6
29 37 Mac-Gray Corp. 66 -6.2 118.3
30 4 Cubist Pharmaceuticals 68 21.1 -14.1
31 58 PerkinElmer 71 -6.2 74.3
32 29 MicroFinancial 72 13.5 -5.7
33 - athenahealth 72 34.2 -36.6
34 54 Virtusa Corp. 73 8.4 3.1
35 64 Enterprise Bancorp 74 -6.1 38.5
36 15 Haemonetics Corp. 74 7.6 3.2
37 56 Independent Bank Corp. 75 -3.0 29.6
38 59 Arrhythmia Research Technology 75 1.9 19.4
39 38 Raytheon Co. 80 4.2 4.9
40 8 Sapient Corp. 80 12.1 -16.3
41 - Covidien 81 1.9 11.4
42 39 Waters Corp. 83 2.1 8.8
43 62 Eaton Vance Corp. 83 7.0 1.0
44 32 Staples 84 3.1 4.7
45 17 UniFirst Corp. 85 0.2 9.9
46 28 Parexel International Corp. 85 4.9 1.9
47 61 Brookline Bancorp 86 -19.0 44.6
48 45 Zoll Medical Corp. 86 7.0 -5.9
49 48 NStar 90 -6.6 21.7
50 40 Monotype Imaging Holdings 90 -1.9 9.3
SOURCE: Compustat