To win a position on this list, a company must excel in three ways. The selection process ranks companies according to their three-year results in sales growth, earnings growth, and return on invested capital. The ranks in the table are calculated from these numbers. Each company is then given a composite rank. This offering includes
all relevant articles and tables published in the printed issue. Companies were drawn from Standard & Poor's Compustat database of more than 10,000 publicly traded corporations. To quality, a company must have annual sales of more than $50 million and less than $1.5 billion, a current market value greater than $25 million, a current stock price of at least $5, and must be actively traded. Banks, insurers, real estate firms, and utilities are excluded. So are companies with declines in current financial results or in stock prices, as well as companies where other developments raise questions about future performance. Includes all relevant articles and tables in the printed issue. Tables Included: Hot Growth Companies: Company, current results, three-year averages, investment data
The Winners by Three Measures: Sales Growth, Earnings Growth, Return on Capital
The 2002 Winners...And the Losers
The Growth Areas-Industries - The 100 companies on our list
come from all parts of the economy, but at any given time certain hot
sectors dominate Stories Included: Hot Growth Companies - The 100 Best Small Companies Many Happy Returns for the Class of 2002 - Hot Growth Alumni K-Swiss-Teach an old sneaker enough new tricks and kids will come running Cognizant Technology Solutions-What's a nice Indian tech company like this doing stateside? Aeropostale-To lure teenage mall rats, you need the right cheese Engineered Support Systems-Supertough, superportable field equipment for the U.S. armed forces Bio-Reference Laboratories-Your report is back from the laboratory - with all the trimmings | 
