Wall Street darlings Companies ranked by market value to sales ratio. Rank Company 2002 sales ($ millions) Market value ($ millions) Market value to sales ratio 1 Ariad Pharmaceuticals 0.1 44.1 658.8 2 Exact Sciences Corp. 0.9 196.4 218.9 3 Praecis Pharmaceuticals 1.0 207.3 201.4 4 Wave Systems Corp. 0.4 54.9 122.8 5 Evercel 0.3 23.0 81.8 6 Biopure Corp. 1.3 103.1 80.4 7 Indevus Pharmaceuticals 1.7 112.5 66.6 8 Diacrin 0.3 18.8 54.4 9 Sycamore Networks 38.9 828.3 21.3 10 Cubist Pharmaceuticals 11.5 228.8 19.9 Company's stock must have traded on Dec. 31, 2001, with a price of $1 a share or higher; market value of $1 million or higher. Source: Data compiled by Compustat.

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