THE TIMES 100 / THE BEST PERFORMING COMPANIES IN AMERICA : RISING FORTUNES : Fastest Profit Growth
Companies ranked by growth in profit from 1992 to 1993.
1993 Profit % Change Rank Company ($ Millions) 1992-93 1 Times Mirror Co. 164.1 365 2 3Com Corp. 71.0 329 3 Genentech Inc. 58.9 183 4 MacFrugal’s Barg/Close-Outs 31.9 181 5 National Health Labs 112.7 178 6 Zenith National Insurance 53.2 175 7 United Television Inc. 43.8 171 8 McKesson Corp. 150.5 170 9 Solectron Corp. 38.4 159 10 Applied Materials 122.4 156 11 Fidelity National Financial 36.3 140 12 Lam Research Corp. 28.4 125 13 Brooktree Corp. 27.3 123 14 Oracle Systems Corp. 197.8 122 15 Wells Fargo & Co. 612.0 116 16 Atmel Corp. 30.0 115 17 Intel Corp. 2,295.0 115 18 Pyxis Corp. 25.5 114 19 Callaway Golf 41.2 114 20 Viking Office Products 24.9 109 21 Herbalife International Inc. 41.2 105 22 First Interstate Bancorp 561.4 99 23 Cisco Systems 241.0 97 24 National Semiconductor 186.0 88 25 Sybase Inc. 44.1 86
Net income figures for all companies have been adjusted to exclude changes in accounting rules issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Source: STAR Services.
