THE TIMES 100 : RISING FORTUNES : Fastest Profit Growth

Companies ranked by growth in profit from 1991 to 1992.

1992 Profit % Change Rank Company ($ Millions) 1991-92 1 Wells Fargo & Co. 283.0 1,248 2 Transamerica Corp. 342.9 660 3 Adaptec Inc. 42.0 307 4 Informix Corp. 47.8 292 5 Amgen Inc. 357.6 265 6 Countrywide Credit Indus. 123.0 173 7 Unocal Corp. 196.0 168 8 Oracle Systems Corp. 89.0 165 9 Litton Industries 176.8 158 10 Cisco Systems 122.4 108 11 Clorox Co. 122.0 102 12 Read-Rite Corp. 55.4 101 13 Merisel Inc. 19.7 82 14 Sunamerica 84.9 81 15 Electronic Arts Inc. 27.0 77 16 Chevron Corp. 2,210.0 71 17 Quantum Corp. 84.8 71 18 Advanced Micro Devices 245.0 69 19 Atlantic Richfield Co. 1,193.0 68 20 Applied Materials 47.8 68 21 Downey Svgs. & Loan Assn. 41.9 68 22 Charles Schwab Co. 81.2 64 23 Apple Computer Inc. 525.7 62 24 PacifiCare Health Systems 47.7 60 25 SynOptics Communications 42.4 58

Source: STAR Services. Certain historical data is from Standard & Poor’s Compustat Inc.