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1 Mosaic 422 341.7
2 AK Steel Holding 351 173.6
3 Owens-Illinois 314 168.3
4 National Oilwell Varco 268 140.1
5 Amazon.com 171 134.8
6 Jacobs Engineering Group 308 134.5
7 Apple 103 133.5
8 GameStop 348 125.4
9 AGCO 359 119.7
10 Cummins 206 117.5
11 Monsanto 305 114.4
12 Hess 77 104.9
13 Express Scripts 135 103.9
14 Deere 102 98.9
15 Medco Health Solutions 51 89.7
16 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 140 86.9
17 Reliant Energy 237 84.7
18 FMC Technologies 498 84.0
19 Cameron International 490 81.5
20 Smith International 302 81.1
21 Shaw Group 426 80.4
22 Fluor 148 79.9
23 Precision Castparts 444 77.4
24 SPX 466 70.4
25 Murphy Oil 134 68.7
26 United States Steel 146 66.6
27 BorgWarner 451 65.4
28 Celanese 367 64.3
29 Peabody Energy 432 64.3
30 Apache 262 62.9
31 Occidental Petroleum 123 60.3
32 Goodrich 375 57.3
33 NRG Energy 403 54.8
34 Textron 202 54.4
35 Praxair 278 52.0
36 Anadarko Petroleum 159 52.0
37 Constellation Energy 117 51.9
38 Public Service Enterprise Group 198 51.9
39 Google 150 50.2
40 PPL 346 49.4
41 Parker Hannifin 247 48.6
42 KBR 284 48.3
43 Western Digital 439 47.7
44 Archer Daniels Midland 52 47.2
45 Trane 241 46.9
46 MGM Mirage 323 46.5
47 Tesoro 116 46.0
48 BlackRock 475 45.0
49 Air Products & Chemicals 258 42.8
50 Frontier Oil 462 41.8
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