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Top Ten
1. Charles River Labs
2. TJX
3. Perini
4. Investors Fin. Svcs.
5. Gillette
6. Staples
7. OneSource
8. Reebok
9. Bright Horizons
10. State Street
2002 Globe 100

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Bulls and Bears
  Bulls
  1. Clean Harbors
  2. Hologic
  3. NMT Medical
  4. DeWolfe
  5. Indevus Pharm.
  Bears
  1. Sonus Networks
  2. Art Tech. Group
  3. Praecis Pharm.
  4. American Tower
  5. Dusa Pharmaceutical
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  1. Cytyc
  2. Polymedica Corp.
  3. Perini
  4. Tweeter
  5. Boston Private Fin.
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Companies ranked by percent gain in stock price over a one-year period.

Rank Company Stock price
3/31/02 Stock price
3/31/01 % change
in stock
price

1 Clean Harbors Inc. 11.64 2.44 377.54

2 Hologic Inc. 15.45 4.00 286.25

3 NMT Medical Inc. 8.00 2.38 236.84

4 DeWolfe Cos. 13.50 5.00 181.74

5 Interneuron Pharmaceuticals 8.75 3.13 180.00

6 Pegasystems Inc. 8.48 3.25 160.92

7 Concord Communications Inc. 21.15 8.19 158.32

8 Dynamics Research Corp. 25.26 10.13 149.48

9 Transkaryotic Therapies Inc. 43.05 17.56 145.13

10 American Science and Engineering Inc. 15.14 6.23 143.02

11 Applied Extrusion Technologies Inc. 7.05 2.94 140.00

12 Interactive Data Corp. 17.55 7.59 131.11

13 Kronos Inc. 46.98 20.96 124.16

14 Ipswich Bankshares Inc. 20.34 9.88 114.48

15 Designs Inc. 4.50 2.25 100.00

16 Novitron International Inc. 6.30 3.19 99.16

17 Courier Corp. 39.45 20.50 95.02

18 Unifirst Corp. 25.15 13.10 93.40

19 MKS Instruments Inc. 34.24 18.71 83.00

20 Switchboard Inc. 5.32 2.94 81.11

21 Independent Bank Corp. 25.88 15.00 76.37

22 Manufacturers Services Ltd. 5.26 2.99 75.92

23 Yankee Candle Inc. 23.13 13.17 75.63

24 Port Financial Corp. 31.54 18.25 74.81

25 Firstfed America Bancorp 23.90 15.01 63.97

Company stock must have traded at $2 or higher per share on March 31, 2001; and must have traded on March 31, 2002. Source: Data compiled by Compustat.