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Rank Company 500 Rank 1998 - 2008 % Annual Growth in EPS
1 eBay 303 87.7
2 Sealed Air 483 58.3
3 Ball 336 40.5
4 Stryker 375 39.4
5 Smith International 250 35.6
6 Qualcomm 244 35.4
7 Express Scripts 115 34.5
8 Occidental Petroleum 98 32.7
9 Travelers Cos. 99 31.2
10 Steel Dynamics 318 30.8
11 Henry Schein 389 29.9
12 Best Buy 56 29.7
13 Quest Diagnostics 341 29.6
14 L-3 Communications 171 28.5
15 Chevron 3 27.6
16 Yahoo 345 26.6
17 Holly 420 26.3
18 Apple 71 26.2
19 Emcor Group 370 25.6
20 Marathon Oil 23 25.2
21 Williams 218 24.0
22 Bed Bath & Beyond 355 23.4
23 Precision Castparts 362 23.1
24 C.H. Robinson Worldwide 300 23.1
25 Nucor 106 23.1
26 Oracle 113 22.9
27 Reliance Steel & Aluminum 298 22.8
28 PetSmart 468 22.5
29 National Oilwell Varco 200 22.4
30 AutoZone 380 21.1
31 Exxon Mobil 1 21.0
32 Jacobs Engineering Group 241 20.6
33 Cisco Systems 57 20.1
34 Expeditors International of Washington 434 19.9
35 Corning 414 19.6
36 Affiliated Computer Services 401 19.6
37 Danaher 213 19.6
38 Fiserv 482 19.3
39 Darden Restaurants 374 19.3
40 Baxter International 219 19.2
41 BJ Services 438 19.1
42 Texas Instruments 215 19.0
43 World Fuel Services 137 19.0
44 Frontier Oil 383 18.8
45 Commercial Metals 251 18.8
46 Nike 136 18.7
47 Universal American 494 18.4
48 MDU Resources Group 473 18.4
49 W.R. Berkley 490 17.8
50 Becton Dickinson 347 17.4
Issue date: May 4, 2009
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New York 56
California 51
Company 2008 $ (millions)
Exxon Mobil $45,220.0
Chevron $23,931.0
Microsoft $17,681.0
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