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Top companies: Fastest growing
1 Knight 230 62.5
2 Chesapeake Energy 324 60.3
3 World Fuel Services 188 58.7
4 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 140 56.4
5 Yahoo 353 48.9
6 XTO Energy 436 46.7
7 National Oilwell Varco 268 45.1
8 eBay 326 44.6
9 Oneok 192 44.1
10 Atmos Energy 416 44.1
11 Enbridge Energy Partners 343 43.8
12 Holly 484 40.1
13 CB Richard Ellis Group 404 38.8
14 Symantec 461 37.2
15 Thermo Fisher Scientific 269 36.1
16 Hexion Specialty Chemicals 420 36.0
17 Murphy Oil 134 35.9
18 WellPoint 33 35.7
19 Liberty Media 275 35.4
20 Constellation Energy 117 35.1
21 Perini 499 33.7
22 Apple 103 33.1
23 Reliance Steel & Aluminum 345 33.0
24 Anadarko Petroleum 159 32.8
25 Apache 262 31.3
26 Integrys Energy Group 254 31.2
27 Goldman Sachs Group 20 30.9
28 Amazon.com 171 30.4
29 Oshkosh 383 29.3
30 Valero Energy 16 29.1
31 Commercial Metals 303 29.0
32 Lehman Brothers Holdings 37 28.6
33 L-3 Communications 182 28.3
34 Jabil Circuit 219 28.2
35 Nucor 151 28.1
36 Community Health Systems 330 27.9
37 Sunoco 56 27.4
38 Terex 287 26.7
39 CVS Caremark 24 25.9
40 Tesoro 116 25.5
41 ConocoPhillips 5 25.1
42 Cameron International 490 24.9
43 UnitedHealth Group 25 24.7
44 YRC Worldwide 272 24.6
45 Pilgrim's Pride 327 24.6
46 Qualcomm 297 23.9
47 Travelers Cos. 93 23.9
48 Boston Scientific 310 23.4
49 Starbucks 277 23.4
50 Frontier Oil 462 23.4
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