Small Business Limits the comparison to companies with fewer than 25 employees.
Startups Focuses on companies in business less than one year.
Includes valuable data on survivor rates for each category. If you have higher margins than your peers in a particular industry and size range, you know you're doing something right. If your return on equity is lower, you've identified a weakness that you need to work on. We've assembled samples on more than 70 industries with the help of The Brandow Company, a business consulting firm based in Camp Hill, Pa., which draws on a database of 14 million companies. The reports provide benchmarks on sales growth, employees, key financial measures such as current and quick ratios and return on assets, sales and net worth.