Performance Rankings of the S&P 500 (.pdf) These tables provide a report card on the S&P 500 companies using eight measures: total returns (1- and 3-year), sales growth (1- and 3-year), profit growth (1- and 3-year), net margins, and return on equity. The table is sorted in order of ranking from No. 1 through No. 500 and includes the industry group each company is in. To preserve the exact look of this Scoreboard as it appears in the magazine, it has been saved in Adobe's Acrobat portable document file (.pdf) format. So it must be downloaded, then viewed with the Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or higher is required). To view a .pdf through your browser, just click the link below. If you have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your machine, it will launch automatically and display this file. NOTE: If you don't have version 3.0 OR HIGHER of Adobe's Acrobat Reader software installed on your machine, visit Adobe's Acrobat Web site at: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html and follow the instructions to download the helper application for your computer system. Once you have installed the software, return to BW Online to complete your mission. Performance Rankings of the S&P 500 (.pdf) Return to main story

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