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Rank Company 500 Rank 1998 - 2008 Annual Rate %
1 XTO Energy 330 41.6
2 Gilead Sciences 444 34.9
3 Chesapeake Energy 230 33.8
4 Quest Diagnostics 341 28.3
5 Qualcomm 244 27.9
6 Frontier Oil 383 27.4
7 Holly 420 26.9
8 Occidental Petroleum 98 25.3
9 C.H. Robinson Worldwide 300 25.2
10 Apple 71 23.6
11 World Fuel Services 137 22.8
12 International Assets Holding 140 22.4
13 Apache 217 21.9
14 Expeditors International of Washington 434 20.9
15 Express Scripts 115 20.7
16 Emcor Group 370 18.7
17 Precision Castparts 362 18.7
18 Nucor 106 18.3
19 Paccar 170 17.9
20 Shaw Group 357 17.7
21 W.R. Berkley 490 17.7
22 Murphy Oil 92 17.6
23 Symantec 419 17.4
24 UnitedHealth Group 21 17.4
25 UGI 377 16.9
26 Jacobs Engineering Group 241 16.8
27 Perini 432 16.4
28 Devon Energy 163 16.3
29 Valero Energy 10 16.2
30 National Oilwell Varco 200 15.9
31 Plains All American Pipeline 79 15.7
32 AutoZone 380 15.5
33 Steel Dynamics 318 15.1
34 Nash-Finch 492 15.0
35 Ball 336 15.0
36 Commercial Metals 251 14.9
37 Praxair 249 14.7
38 Coventry Health Care 226 14.3
39 Cummins 181 14.3
40 Smith International 250 14.1
41 Entergy 205 13.9
42 Hess 55 13.9
43 Exelon 134 13.5
44 Stryker 375 13.1
45 Universal American 494 12.9
46 Cameron International 421 12.8
47 Southern 149 12.8
48 L-3 Communications 171 12.7
49 Ross Stores 384 12.6
50 ConocoPhillips 4 12.0
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