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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
Overall performance
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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Top 10 Return on Equity

Globe 100 companies ranked by 2001 return on average equity.

Rank Company % Return on
average equity

1 Gillette Co. 44.82

2 TJX Cos. 42.23

3 Eaton Vance Corp. 39.35

4 Perini Corp. 34.75

5 Yankee Candle Co. 34.18

6 DeWolfe Cos. 29.28

7 OneSource Information Serv. 28.78

8 Talbots Inc. 22.71

9 Biogen Inc. 22.21

10 Waters Corp. 22.17

Data compiled by Compustat.