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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

Year's Best
Company of year
Highest market value
Highest sales
Comeback of the year
Biggest stock gain
Fastest growth

Features
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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
Banking
Market value
Sales
Biotech
Medical devices
Growth
  1. Cytyc
  2. Polymedica Corp.
  3. Perini
  4. Tweeter
  5. Boston Private Fin.
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Nose dives

Ranked by absolute dollar change from profit to loss in one year.

Rank Company 2001 net
loss
($ millions) 2000 net
income
($ millions) Change in
income
($ millions)

1 EMC Corp. -507.71 1782.07 -2289.79

2 Teradyne Inc. -202.22 517.75 -719.97

3 Sycamore Networks Inc. -550.63 0.65 -551.29

4 Boston Scientific Corp. -54.00 373.00 -427.00

5 Sapient Corp. -189.77 46.96 -236.73

6 RSA Security Inc. -2.51 205.76 -208.27

7 Nstar -2.43 175.00 -177.43

8 Art Technology Group -156.01 14.49 -170.49

9 LTX Corp. -48.30 91.70 -140.00

10 Axcelis Technologies Inc. -20.16 99.12 -119.28

Companies must have shown a loss from continuing operations in 2001 and a gain in 2000. Data compiled by Compustat.