NEW YORK, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the third consecutive year, Amazon.com tops BusinessWeek's annual InfoTech100 ranking of tech's top performing companies. In 2007, Amazon.com vaulted from No.23 to No.1, and the company retains the top spot for another year, beating out Oracle (No.2), Research in Motion (No.14), and Samsung (No.15). Apple fell from No.2 in 2008 to No.19 and Google dropped from No.11 to No.37.
To compile the InfoTech100, BusinessWeek began with financial data from Standard & Poor's Compustat, also a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, that has computerized information on over 30,500 publicly traded corporations. BusinessWeek trimmed this universe to information-technology companies. To qualify, companies had to have revenues of at least $500 million. This collection of about 800 companies was divided into eight industry categories, such as software and semiconductors. Companies whose stock price has dropped more than 50%, whose sales shrank 5% or more, or where other developments raised questions about future performance were eliminated from contention. BusinessWeek also dropped some phone companies whose monopoly or near-monopoly power may give them an advantage over competitors. The remaining group of companies was ranked on four criteria: return on equity, shareholder return and revenue growth (which were given equal weight), and total revenues (which were weighted). The four rankings for each company were added together, and those with the lowest combined score topped the list. The top 100 were then reranked as a group.
The 11th annual InfoTech100 appears in BusinessWeek's June 1, 2009 issue, on newsstands May 22nd, and on BusinessWeek.com at http://www.businessweek.com/.
BusinessWeek's InfoTech100 June 1, 2009 Issue Rank Company Country -------------------------------------------------- 1 AMAZON.COM U.S. 2 ORACLE U.S. 3 SAP Germany 4 INVENTEC Taiwan 5 IBM U.S. 6 BHARTI AIRTEL India 7 QUANTA COMPUTER Taiwan 8 WISTRON Taiwan 9 TENCENT HOLDINGS China 10 ACER Taiwan 11 ACCENTURE U.S. 12 MTN GROUP S. Africa 13 HTC Taiwan 14 RESEARCH IN MOTION Canada 15 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Korea 16 AMERICA MOVIL Mexico 17 SWISSCOM Switz. 18 SAIC U.S. 19 APPLE U.S. 20 HEWLETT-PACKARD U.S. 21 DIMENSION DATA HOLDINGS S. Africa 22 MICROSOFT U.S. 23 CHINA MOBILE China 24 ILIAD France 25 INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES India 26 ASUSTEK COMPUTER Taiwan 27 NETFLIX U.S. 28 SK TELECOM Korea 29 ERICSSON (LM) TELEFON Sweden 30 TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES India 31 TELSTRA Australia 32 VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS U.S. 33 BYD China 34 QUALCOMM U.S. 35 TURKCELL ILETISIM HIZMETLERI Turkey 36 VODAFONE GROUP Britain 37 GOOGLE U.S. 38 DELL U.S. 39 ZTE China 40 HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Taiwan 41 COMPUTERSHARE Australia 42 COMPUTER SCIENCES U.S. 43 WIPRO India 44 ENTEL-EMPRESA NACIONAL TELECOM Chile 45 TELE NORTE LESTE PARTICIPACO Brazil 46 EMBRATEL PARTICIPACOES Brazil 47 PRICELINE.COM U.S. 48 TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MFG. Taiwan 49 NOKIA Finland 50 COMPAL ELECTRONICS Taiwan 51 COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS U.S. 52 SIMPLO TECHNOLOGY Taiwan 53 LG ELECTRONICS Korea 54 VTECH HOLDINGS Hong Kong 55 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING U.S. 56 CISCO SYSTEMS U.S. 57 ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS Canada 58 MCAFEE U.S. 59 FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS U.S. 60 NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE Japan 61 BMC SOFTWARE U.S. 62 AT&T U.S. 63 SYNNEX U.S. 64 AFFILIATED COMPUTER SVCS U.S. 65 LG DISPLAY Korea 66 MULTI-FINELINE ELECTRONIX U.S. 67 L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HLDGS. U.S. 68 LG TELECOM Korea 69 TECH DATA U.S. 70 INTUIT U.S. 71 EMC U.S. 72 BROADCOM U.S. 73 AISINO China 74 PC-WARE INFO TECHNOLOGIES Germany 75 SYBASE U.S. 76 TOKYO ELECTRON Japan 77 METROPCS COMMUNICATIONS U.S. 78 SPECTRIS Britain 79 CHECK POINT SOFTWARE Israel 80 WESTERN DIGITAL U.S. 81 AMPHENOL U.S. 82 HOSIDEN Japan 83 NATIONAL MOBILE TELECOM Kuwait 84 HARRIS U.S. 85 FIDELITY NATIONAL INFO SVCS U.S. 86 SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Korea 87 NASPERS S. Africa 88 HUTCHISON TELECOMMUNICATIONS China 89 SYNOPSYS U.S. 90 TERADATA U.S. 91 CA U.S. 92 GEMALTO Neth. 93 JUNIPER NETWORKS U.S. 94 TKH GROUP Neth. 95 GROUPE STERIA France 96 TELEFONICA DE ARGENTINA Argentina 97 NETAPP U.S. 98 FISERV U.S. 99 ADOBE SYSTEMS U.S. 100 AMDOCS Britain
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