Sales growth among the S&P 500
Top Ten (one-year) percentage
change
Biogen Idec 225%
Caremark Rx 185
Applied Micro Circuits 128
Yahoo! 119
Nucor 82
Phelps Dodge 71
Donnelley (R.R.) 71
OfficeMax 68
Applied Materials 65
XTO Energy 64

Bottom Ten (one-year) percentage
change
Williams -25%
Citizens Communications -14
Sears Roebuck -12
AT&T -12
Washington Mutual -11
CMS Energy -10
Mylan Laboratories -9
Huntington Bancshares -8
Exelon -8
Loews -8

Top Ten (three-year) percentage
change
Biogen Idec 97.3%
Gilead Sciences 79.0
ConocoPhillips 74.1
Yahoo! 70.6
eBay 64.9
Caremark Rx 62.6
Constellation Energy Group 52.8
Valero Energy 51.4
Devon Energy 49.6
Sanmina-SCI 44.9

Bottom Ten (three-year) percentage
change
El Paso -38.7%
Ciena -35.3
Allegheny Energy -34.9
JDS Uniphase -30.1
CINergy -25.7
ADC Telecommunications -23.9
Lucent Technologies -23.3
Providian Financial -22.7
CenterPoint Energy -21.1
Penney (J.C.) -20.2

DATA: Standard & Poor's Compustat