NEW YORK, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, Mexico's America Movil tops BusinessWeek's Information Technology 100 list, the ninth annual ranking of the 100 best-performing technology companies. The report appears in BusinessWeek's July 3, 2006 issue, with expanded content on BusinessWeek.com at http://www.businessweek.com/it100/.
To compile the Info Tech 100, BusinessWeek began with financial data from Standard & Poor's, also a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, that has computerized information on 10,000 publicly traded corporations. BusinessWeek trimmed this universe to information-technology companies and then added non-U.S. companies suggested by a network of foreign bureaus. To qualify, companies had to have revenues of at least $500 million. Companies whose stock price has dropped more than 75%, whose sales shrank, or where other developments raised questions about future performance, were eliminated from contention. We also dropped some phone companies whose monopoly or near-monopoly power in their countries gives them an unfair advantage over competitors. The remaining group of companies were ranked on four criteria: return on equity, revenue growth, and shareholder return (given equal weight), and total revenues (which was weighted).
BusinessWeek's Info Tech 100
July 3, 2006 Issue
1 AMERICA MOVIL Mexico 51 ORACLE USA
2 HON HAI PRECISION IND. Taiwan 52 NIKON Japan
3 HIGH TECH COMPUTER Taiwan 53 AT&T USA
4 APPLE COMPUTER USA 54 CISCO SYSTEMS USA
5 SOFTBANK Japan 55 L-3 COMMUNICATIONS
HLDS. USA
6 TELEFONICA MOVILES Spain 56 YAHOO! USA
7 TELEFONICA Spain 57 WIPRO India
8 CHINA MOBILE Hong Kong 58 ADVANCED MICRO
DEVICES USA
9 NOKIA Finland 59 CANON Japan
10 BHARTI AIRTEL India 60 XYRATEX UK
11 MOTOROLA USA 61 AGILIENT
TECHNOLOGIES USA
12 TELEKOMUNIKASI Indonesia 62 KDDI Japan
INDONESIA
13 GOOGLE USA 63 ACER Taiwan
14 ACCENTURE USA 64 LG TELECOM Korea
15 DELL USA 65 ROGERS
COMMUNICATIONS Canada
16 TPV TECHNOLOGY Hong Kong 66 SK TELECOM Korea
17 INVENTEC Taiwan 67 HOYA Japan
18 WISTRON Taiwan 68 NEXTEL PARTNERS USA
19 SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY USA 69 QUALCOMM USA
20 BT GROUP Britain 70 YAHOO! JAPAN Japan
21 CHINA NETCOM GROUP Hong Kong 71 MITAC INTERNATIONAL Taiwan
22 TD AMERITRADE HOLDING USA 72 CAP GEMINI France
23 AMAZON.COM USA 73 NVIDIA USA
24 NOVATEK Taiwan 74 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS USA
MICROELECTRONICS
25 TELENOR Norway 75 VERIZON
COMMUNICATIONS USA
26 TOSHIBA Japan 76 AMKOR TECHNOLOGY USA
27 TELEFONOS DE MEXICO Mexico 77 TELLABS USA
28 E*TRADE FINANCIAL USA 78 VTECH HOLDINGS Hong Kong
29 BRIGHTPOINT USA 79 LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY Taiwan
30 NII HOLDINGS USA 80 COSMOTE MOBILE
TELECOM. Greece
31 QUANTA COMPUTER Taiwan 81 AMPHENOL USA
32 ASUSTEK COMPUTER Taiwan 82 JABIL CIRCUIT USA
33 HUTCHISON TELECOM. INT. Hong Kong 83 HEARTLAND PAYMENT
SYSTEMS USA
34 TATA CONSULTANCY India 84 COGNIZANT TECH.
SERVICES SOLUTIONS USA
35 MEDIATEK Taiwan 85 CORNING USA
36 SPRINT NEXTEL USA 86 TDC Denmark
37 MICROSOFT USA 87 BROADCOM USA
38 WESTERN DIGITAL USA 88 SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS Japan
39 SAP Germany 89 PALM USA
40 KOMAG USA 90 ANIXTER
INTERNATIONAL USA
41 AVAYA USA 91 LOGITECH
INTERNATIONAL Switzerland
42 INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES India 92 SILICONWARE
PRECISION INDUS. Taiwan
43 TURKCELL ILETISIM 93 MILLICOM INTL.
HIZMETLERI Turkey CELLULAR Luxembourg
44 HEWLETT-PACKARD USA 94 COMPAL ELECTRONICS Taiwan
45 NETFLIX USA 95 HARRIS USA
46 SANDISK USA 96 NIDEC Japan
47 LM ERICSSON Sweden 97 INTUIT USA
48 SATYAM COMPUTER India 98 AMDOCS Britain
SERVICES
49 VIMPELCOM Russia 99 ALLIANCE DATA
SYSTEMS USA
50 MOBILE TELESYSTEMS Russia 100 NATIONAL
SEMICONDUCTOR USA
