THE TIMES 100 / THE BEST PERFORMING COMPANIES IN AMERICA : THE BOTTOM LINE : Nose Dives

Companies ranked by absolute change from profit to loss in one year.

Change ’93 income ’92 income in income Rank Company ($ millions) ($ millions) ($ millions) 1 Carter Hawley Hale -95.9 855.4 -951.3 2 Tandem Computers Inc. -510.3 58.6 -568.9 3 Conner Peripherals -445.3 121.1 -566.4 4 Apple Computer Inc. -34.7 525.7 -560.4 5 Maxtor Corp. -272.8 89.0 -361.8 6 H.F. Ahmanson & Co. -138.0 156.4 -294.4 7 Intuit -161.9 5.5 -167.4 8 AST Research Inc. -49.8 57.6 -107.4 9 Quantum Corp. -9.6 84.8 -94.3 10 Foodmaker Inc. -60.0 31.0 -91.0

Source: STAR Services.