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1 AK Steel Holding 351 3,045.5
2 Qwest Communications 187 406.7
3 Pitney Bowes 399 253.2
4 Williams 208 219.6
5 MeadWestvaco 356 200.0
6 Rockwell Automation 450 173.9
7 Symantec 461 173.3
8 Marsh & McLennan 220 157.4
9 Amazon.com 171 148.9
10 MGM Mirage 323 139.2
11 El Paso 486 139.1
12 Telephone & Data Systems 478 135.0
13 DTE Energy 273 134.6
14 Perini 499 129.9
15 OfficeMax 288 123.5
16 Charles Schwab 402 107.4
17 Abbott Laboratories 96 106.3
18 Thermo Fisher Scientific 269 104.8
19 Cardinal Health 19 104.7
20 Raytheon 112 103.2
21 Fluor 148 98.3
22 Dominion Resources 161 97.5
23 Energy Transfer Equity 361 96.2
24 Weyerhaeuser 147 95.1
25 BlackRock 475 94.6
26 National Oilwell Varco 268 94.3
27 Estee Lauder 349 92.9
28 Allied Waste Industries 400 90.9
29 Avnet 163 89.2
30 Boeing 27 85.3
31 SPX 466 84.5
32 AMR 109 81.6
33 Public Service Enterprise Group 198 78.8
34 Precision Castparts 444 77.9
35 BJ's Wholesale Club 291 75.9
36 Crown Holdings 325 75.3
37 GameStop 348 75.0
38 Apple 103 73.1
39 Exelon 131 72.3
40 Humana 98 69.3
41 Hertz Global Holdings 304 68.8
42 Halliburton 167 65.0
43 Archer Daniels Midland 52 65.0
44 Supervalu 62 58.9
45 Cameron International 490 58.8
46 Medco Health Solutions 51 56.0
47 Textron 202 55.8
48 Unum Group 251 55.3
49 Mohawk Industries 328 54.0
50 Electronic Data Systems 115 51.7
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