THE TIMES 100 : VIEW FROM THE STREET : Highest-Priced Companies
Companies ranked by market price as a percentage of book value.
3/31/93 Market Market Value Book Value Value as Rank Company ($ Millions) ($ Millions) % of Book 1 Audre Recognition Systems 236.4 2.1 11,002 2 Aphton Corporation 137.7 3.2 4,240 3 International Cablecasting 158.3 8.4 1,888 4 Viratek Inc. 178.4 11.2 1,598 5 Cisco Systems 5,484.2 344.4 1,592 6 NTN Communications 108.1 7.1 1,523 7 Electronic Arts Inc. 1,378.5 94.0 1,466 8 QUALCOMM Inc. 944.1 68.0 1,388 9 Catalina Marketing 366.1 27.9 1,312 10 Herbalife 252.2 19.9 1,270 11 HS Resources 196.5 15.8 1,241 12 Oracle Systems Corp. 5,236.3 457.5 1,145 13 Sybase Inc. 1,272.8 118.3 1,076 14 Informix Corp. 1,004.3 93.8 1,071 15 Platinum Software 268.3 26.4 1,018 16 SciClone Pharmaceuticals 182.2 17.9 1,017 17 Molecular Dynamics 156.9 17.0 925 18 Pyxis Corp. 755.5 85.6 883 19 First Pacific Networks 341.4 39.1 873 20 SynOptics Communications 1,727.5 203.0 851 21 W D-40 Co. 350.0 43.9 796 22 Solectron Corp. 830.8 111.1 748 23 Cheesecake Factory 162.0 21.8 743 24 Callaway Golf 363.5 49.8 731 25 Telios Pharmaceuticals 133.4 18.7 713
Source: STAR Services. Certain historical data is from Standard & Poor’s Compustat Inc.
