Wall Street Wallflowers
Companies ranked by market value to sales ratio.
| Rank |
Company
Name |
1998
Total
Sales
(millions) |
Market
Value
3/31/99
(millions) |
Market
Value to
Sales ratio |
| 1 |
Perini Corp. |
$1,035.9 |
$23.7 |
0.02 |
| 2 |
Friendly Ice Cream |
$678.1 |
$45.8 |
0.07 |
| 3 |
Filene's Basement Corp. |
$588.5 |
$39.9 |
0.07 |
| 4 |
Arch Communications Group Inc. |
$383.7 |
$29.0 |
0.08 |
| 5 |
Trend-Lines Inc. |
$255.5 |
$22.0 |
0.09 |
| 6 |
Clean Harbors Inc. |
$197.4 |
$17.8 |
0.09 |
| 7 |
J. Baker Inc. |
$584.3 |
$52.7 |
0.09 |
| 8 |
NSC Corp. |
$99.7 |
$10.3 |
0.10 |
| 9 |
Elcom International Inc. |
$763.6 |
$81.1 |
0.11 |
| 10 |
Aerovox Inc. |
$116.2 |
$12.8 |
0.11 |
| Source: Nordby
International, Inc. , Boulder, Co. |
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