| Billion-dollar companies | «Click column headings to re-sort» | |||||
| Company | Ticker | City | Industry |
2005 Revenues (in $000,000s) |
Rev. % chg from 2004 |
2005 % total stock return |
| American Real Estate Partners | ACP | Mount Kisco, NY | Real estate management & development | 1,262 | 178.3 | 68.0 |
| Movie Gallery | MOVI | Dothan, AL | Specialty stores | 2,006 | 153.6 | -89.4 |
| ProLogis | PLD | Aurora, CO | Real estate investment trusts | 1,938 | 136.3 | 49.1 |
| American Home Mortgage Investment | AHM | Melville, NY | Real estate investment trusts | 1,383 | 126.7 | 16.9 |
| Inergy | NRGY | Kansas City, MO | Oil & gas storage & transportation | 1,050 | 117.6 | -11.2 |
| Cimarex Energy | XEC | Denver | Oil & gas exploration & production | 1,332 | 97.4 | 11.0 |
| Headwaters | HW | South Jordan, UT | Construction materials | 1,065 | 92.2 | 21.2 |
| Lifepoint Hospitals | LPNT | Brentwood, TN | Health-care facilities | 1,855 | 86.1 | -29.1 |
| Armor Holdings | AH | Jacksonville, FL | Aerospace & defense | 1,637 | 67.1 | 57.2 |
| Blackrock | BLK | New York | Asset management & custody banks | 1,191 | 64.3 | 89.3 |
| Gardner Denver | GDI | Quincy, IL | Industrial machinery | 1,215 | 64.2 | 65.0 |
| Magellan Midstream Partnrs | MMP | Tulsa, OK | Oil & gas storage & transportation | 1,137 | 63.5 | 14.7 |
| Impac Mortgage Holdings | IMH | Newport Beach, CA | Real estate investment trusts | 1,307 | 63.3 | -41.7 |
| Oil States Intl | OIS | Houston | Oil & gas equipment & services | 1,532 | 57.7 | 79.3 |
| Roper Industries | ROP | Duluth, GA | Electrical components & equipment | 1,454 | 49.9 | 49.4 |
| Nelnet | NNI | Lincoln, NE | Consumer finance | 1,153 | 49.1 | 30.9 |
| Activision | ATVI | Santa Monica, CA | Home entertainment software | 1,406 | 48.4 | 24.2 |
| Charles River Labs Intl | CRL | Wilmington, MA | Biotechnology | 1,122 | 46.3 | 4.2 |
| Carter's | CRI | Atlanta | Apparel | 1,142 | 36.7 | 69.8 |
| Ensco International | ESV | Dallas | Oil & gas drilling | 1,047 | 36.3 | 36.9 |
| Urban Outfitters | URBN | Philadelphia | Apparel retail | 1,092 | 31.9 | 2.3 |
| Linear Technology | LLTC | Milpitas, CA | Semiconductors | 1,050 | 30.0 | -7.3 |
| Old Dominion Freight | ODFL | Thomasville, NC | Trucking | 1,061 | 28.8 | 29.8 |
| Philadelphia Consolidated Holding | PHLY | Bala Cynwyd, PA | Property & casualty insurance | 1,051 | 28.4 | 32.1 |
| Mesa Air Group | MESA | Phoenix | Airlines | 1,136 | 26.7 | 63.4 |
| Cerner | CERN | Kansas City, MO | Health-care services | 1,161 | 25.3 | 80.7 |
| Aeropostale | ARO | New York | Apparel - retail | 1,204 | 24.9 | -7.9 |
| TD Ameritrade Holding | AMTD | Omaha | Investment banking & brokerage | 1,145 | 24.1 | 165.0 |
| Pharmaceutical Prod Dev | PPDI | Wilmington, NC | Health-care services | 1,037 | 23.3 | 45.6 |
| Kinetic Concepts | KCI | San Antonio | Health care equipment | 1,209 | 21.8 | -31.0 |
| Cheesecake Factory | CAKE | Calabasas Hills, CA | Restaurants | 1,178 | 21.5 | 5.6 |
| Bok Financial | BOKF | Tulsa, OK | Regional banks | 1,117 | 21.0 | 17.9 |
| Sky Financial Group | SKYF | Bowling Green, OH | Regional banks | 1,042 | 20.4 | -13.0 |
| Education Management | EDMC | Pittsburgh | Education services | 1,019 | 19.5 | 48.8 |
| Aaron Rents | RNT | Atlanta | Home furnishing - retail | 1,124 | 19.5 | 36.2 |
| Finish Line | FINL | Indianapolis | Apparel - retail | 1,167 | 18.3 | -28.5 |
| Lamar Advertising | LAMR | Baton Rouge | Advertising | 1,022 | 15.6 | 30.6 |
| Choicepoint | CPS | Alpharetta, GA | Diversified commercial & professional services | 1,058 | 15.2 | 11.6 |
| MSC Industrial Direct | MSM | Melville, NY | Trading companies & distributors | 1,100 | 15.1 | 86.1 |
| Public Storage | PSA | Glendale, CA | Real estate investment trusts | 1,086 | 14.2 | 46.7 |
| Idex | IEX | Northbrook, IL | Industrial machinery | 1,043 | 12.4 | 30.8 |
| Station Casinos | STN | Las Vegas | Casinos & gaming | 1,109 | 12.4 | 19.2 |
| SCS Transportation | SCST | Kansas City, MO | Trucking | 1,098 | 11.8 | 56.6 |
| Bisys Group | BSG | New York | Data processing & outsourced services | 1,037 | 11.1 | -14.0 |
| NCO Group | NCOG | Horsham, PA | Diversified commercial & professional services | 1,040 | 10.7 | 21.5 |
| School Specialty | SCHS | Greenville, WI | Diversified commercial & professional services | 1,003 | 10.5 | -11.9 |
| Fossil | FOSL | Richardson, TX | Apparel | 1,041 | 8.4 | -28.3 |
| Source Interlink Cos | SORC | Bonita Springs, FL | Distributors | 1,527 | 7.1 | -13.0 |
| Ethan Allen Interiors | ETH | Danbury, CT | Home furnishings | 1,000 | -0.6 | 33.8 |
| Average | 1,208 | 44.2 | 25.0 | |||