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

Rank Company 2002 net
loss
($ millions) 2001 net
income
($ millions) Change in
income
($ millions)

1 Ascential Sotware Corp. -63.6 624.9 -688.5

2 Allmerica Financial Corp. -302.4 0.1 -302.5

3 Tweeter Home Entertainment Group -173.4 20.6 -194.0

4 Netegrity -86.3 1.6 -88.0

5 Axeda Systems -51.9 1.4 -53.4

6 PerkinElmer -4.1 41.5 -45.6

7 MicroFinancial -22.1 16.3 -38.4

8 Indevus Pharmaceuticals -21.1 8.4 -29.5

9 SeaChange International -23.9 0.4 -24.3

10 Five Star Quality Care -10.4 1.4 -11.8

Companies must have shown a loss from continuing operations in 2002 and a gain in 2001. Data compiled by Compustat.