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Fortune released the Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies today.
The top 5 included:
- Eldorado Gold
- Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
- Ebix
- Salesforce.com
- KapStone Paper and Packaging
To qualify, a company — domestic or foreign — must be trading on a major U.S. stock exchange; report data in U.S. dollars; file quarterly reports with the SEC; have a minimum market capitalization of $250 million and stock price of at least $5 on June 30, 2010; and have been trading continuously since June 30, 2007. Companies must have revenue and net income of at least $50 million and $10 million, respectively, for the four quarters ended on or before April 30, 2010, and have posted annualized growth in revenue and earnings per share of at least 15% annually over the three years ended on or before April 30, 2010.
Companies that meet these criteria are ranked by revenue growth rate, EPS growth rate, and three-year annualized total return for the period ended June 30, 2010. (To compute revenue and EPS growth rates, Fortune uses a trailing four quarters log linear least square regression fit.) The overall rank is based on the sum of the three ranks. Once the 100 companies are identified, they are then re-ranked within the 100, using the three equally weighted variables. If there is a tie, the company with the larger four-quarter revenue receives the higher rank.
Companies with Texas HQ’s:
16) DG FastChannel – (Irving) – Website
DG FastChannel (NASDAQ: DGIT) provides digital media services to the advertising, entertainment and broadcast industries. DG FastChannel has an online media distribution network that is used by more than 5,000 advertisers and agencies, and more than 26,000 online radio, television, cable, network and print publishing destinations.
DG FastChannel was ranked fifth on the 2009 Fortune Small Business list of nation�s 100 Fastest Growing Small Public Companies. They also ranked fifth for the 2009 Fortune Fastest Growing Companies in the World listing.
20) Life Partner Holdings – (Waco) – Website
Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (LPHI) is the only publicly traded company involved, through its primary operating subsidiary LPI, exclusively in the secondary market for life insurance. As a financial services company, LPI earns fees from providing life settlement purchasing agent services to both individual and institutional clients. LPI also acts as a fund advisor to funds purchasing life settlement policies and buys policies for its own investment.
In order to meet market demand and maximize value to clients in this growing industry, LPI has made significant investment in proprietary software and processes that enable it to facilitate a higher volume of transactions while maintaining quality control. Since its inception, LPI has facilitated over 100,000 transactions associated with the purchase of more than 6,000 policies. We believe that LPI’s experience, infrastructure, and intellectual capital give it a unique market position and will enable it maintain sustainable growth within the life settlement market.
42) Luminex – (Austin) – Website
Luminex Corporation was incorporated in May 1995 and began commercial production of our first generation system in 1997. Luminex® (NASDAQ: LMNX) develops, manufactures and markets innovative biological testing technologies with applications throughout the life science and diagnostic industries.
The company’s open-architecture xMAP® technology enables large numbers of biological tests (bioassays) to be conducted and analyzed quickly, cost-effectively and accurately. Systems using xMAP technology perform discrete bioassays on the surface of color-coded beads known as microspheres, which are then read in a compact analyzer. Using lasers and high-speed digital-signal processors, the analyzer simultaneously identifies the bioassay and measures the results, all in real time.
72) Atwood Oceanics - (Houston) – Website
Atwood Oceanics began its operations in 1970 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. We have a multinational workforce of approximately 1,400 people who deliver high-quality offshore drilling services to a diverse set of clients. Atwood’s sha res are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ATW.
Our active offshore drilling fleet currently consists of nine mobile offshore drilling units, eight of which are currently operating in international markets. The fleet is comprised of four semisubmersible drilling units (three rated for 5,000 feet water depths and one for 2,000 feet); three cantilever jack-up drilling units (one each rated for 400, 350, and 300 feet water depths); one semisubmersible self-erecting tender-assist drilling unit; and one submersible drilling unit.
80) Fluor – (Irving) – Website
Fluor is a FORTUNE 500 company that delivers engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance (EPCM), and project management to governments and clients in diverse industries around the world. For nearly a century, clients have selected Fluor as their company of choice to complete challenging projects in remote parts of the world.
Founded as a construction company in 1912, Fluor quickly built a reputation for applying innovative methods and performing precise engineering and construction work within the emerging petroleum industry. Today, Fluor continues to develop and implement innovative solutions for complex project issues in diverse industries, including chemicals and petrochemicals, commercial and institutional (C&I), government services, life sciences, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, power, renewable energy, telecommunications, and transport infrastructure.
87) EZCORP – (Austin) – Website
EZCORP is a market leader in the specialty consumer finance industry dedicated to satisfying the short-term cash needs of consumers who find themselves both cash and credit constrained.
Southside Bank is a community-focused financial institution that offers a full range of financial services to individuals, businesses and nonprofit organizations. These services include consumer and commercial loans, loans to municipalities, personal, small business and commercial deposit accounts, trust management services, safe deposit and brokerage services, credit cards, merchant’s services, ATMs, and an array of electronic services on its website. Southside Bank also offers an “extended” banking week through its 18 retail branches – open as late as 8:00pm Monday through Friday and Saturdays until 6:00 p.m.
100) MetroPCS Communications - (Richardson) – Website
Formerly known as General Wireless, Inc. Is a provider of CDMA wireless communications services in most greater United States cities, including, but not limited to: Orlando, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Sarasota, Daytona, Fort Myers, Atlanta, Arizona, New York, Chicago, Boston, Rhode Island, New Jersey, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Fort Worth, Detroit, Philadelphia, Shreveport, Sacramento, San Bernardino and Riverside, Texarkana, and Waco metropolitan areas. MetroPCS is the fifth largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, and currently serves about 7.3 million customers.[1] The company, a Delaware corporation, is headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
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