These companies must comply with the revenue criteria described above. Profit margins Royalty trusts, real estate trusts and limited partnerships were excluded from the profit margin chart. The chart ranks companies based on net revenues. Data have been adjusted for any stock splits as of April 28, 2000. The market value chart ranks companies by the value of their stock as of April 28, 2000.
Market value is the company's stock price times the number of outstanding shares.
The number of shares is based on the most recently available information. These prices have been adjusted to reflect stock splits and stock dividends. Who's who These listings offer further details about the companies in the Chronicle. A company's stock symbol refers to its ticker symbol and is not necessarily the way the company is listed in the Chronicle's stock tables. The SIC is the numerical industry designation properly known as the Standard Industry Classification code.