THE TIMES 100 : THE BEST PERFORMING COMPANIES IN CALIFORNIA : THE BOTTOM LINE : Profit Margins
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Companies ranked by profit from continuing operations as a % of sales.
Pct. ’91 Rank Company Return 1 Magma Power Co. 40.3 2 Franklin Resources Inc. * 31.1 3 Cisco Systems Inc. 24.1 4 Syntex Corp. * 23.0 5 Adobe Systems Inc. 22.5 6 Wesco. Financial Corp. 22.2 7 Diagnostic Products Corp. 21.5 8 Berry Petroleum 21.4 9 Novellus Systems Inc. 21.0 10 Autodesk Inc. 20.3 11 McGrath Rent Corp. 19.8 12 Linear Technology Corp. * 19.3 13 WD-40 Co. * 17.8 14 Xilinx Inc. 17.5 15 Acuson Corp. 17.4 16 National Health Labs 17.2 17 Intel Corp. 17.1 18 Southern California Water 16.9 19 Altera Corp. 16.7 20 Argonaut Group Inc. 16.3 21 Unocal Exploration Corp. * 16.2 22 Countrywide Credit * 16.2 23 Silicon Valley Bancshares 15.8 24 Dionex Corp. * 15.7 25 Sierra Semiconductor Corp. 15.2
* See exceptions, Page 54.
Source: MZ Group.
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