THE TIMES 100 / THE BEST PERFORMING COMPANIES IN AMERICA : A VIEW FROM THE STREET : Wall Street’s Favorites
Companies with highest ratio of stock market value to sales.
3/31/94 1993 Price/ Mkt. Value Revenue Sales Rank Company ($ Millions) ($ Millions) Ratio 1 Metricom Inc. 270.4 10.1 26.89 2 Protein Design Labs 279.3 14.7 19.01 3 NetManage Inc. 356.1 20.8 17.12 4 Gensia Pharmaceuticals 455.3 29.0 15.69 5 Kaiser Resources Inc. 161.3 10.6 15.23 6 Aura Systems Inc. 260.3 18.1 14.40 7 Atari Corp. 385.7 28.8 13.39 8 Ligand Pharmaceuticals 180.0 16.1 11.17 9 Wonderware Corp. 224.1 21.3 10.51 10 Isis Pharmaceuticals 111.3 10.7 10.45 11 Wesco Financial 914.9 91.6 9.99 12 Tejon Ranch 177.5 18.2 9.74 13 Calgene Inc. 294.1 30.6 9.62 14 Cisco Systems 8,676.8 928.2 9.35 15 Pyxis Corp. 915.7 100.2 9.14 16 Level One Communications 230.7 26.0 8.88 17 Chiron Corp. 2,124.7 239.8 8.86 18 Linear Technology Corp. 1,523.7 174.7 8.72 19 VISX Inc. 187.9 22.1 8.51 20 ICU Medical 94.3 11.4 8.28 21 Genentech Inc. 5,031.8 608.2 8.27 22 Agouron Pharmaceuticals 92.3 11.2 8.26 23 Athena Neurosciences 149.0 18.6 7.99 24 ALZA Corp. 1,755.1 219.8 7.98 25 Cygnus Therapeutic Systems 131.6 17.5 7.53
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