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Fastest-growing small companies
From Fortune Small Business: Top 10 companies by return on equity.

This is Fortune Small Business's fifth annual ranking of the small and the speedy. The companies on this list are all publicly traded with annual revenue of less than $200 million and a stock price of more than $1. Below are the top 10 by return on equity.

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Last updated Dec 22 16:00
Rank Company (Ticker symbol) Current
share price
Return on equity
($ millions)
1 Ngas Resources (NGAS) $1.67 1501.6
3 Taser International (TASR) $4.50 295.4
4 Sonic Solutions (SNIC) $12.21 261.0
8 Diodes (DIOD) $20.84 220.9
9 J. Alexander's (JAX) $3.75 167.8
Source: Thomson/First Call
FSB magazine, July/August 2005


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