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Top companies: Fastest growing
Rank ▾ Company 500 Rank 2001 - 2011 % Annual Growth in Revenues
1 World Fuel Services 85 36.6
2 Apple 17 35.0
3 eBay 228 31.6
4 Amazon.com 56 31.4
5 Enterprise Products Partners 62 30.1
6 HollyFrontier 170 29.8
7 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 135 27.5
8 ConocoPhillips 4 25.6
9 National Oilwell Varco 184 23.7
10 Valero Energy 12 23.6
11 Community Health Systems 198 23.4
12 Kinder Morgan 311 22.9
13 Broadcom 344 22.6
14 Symantec 391 21.9
14 CenturyLink 171 21.9
16 Amerigroup 385 21.6
17 Murphy Oil 98 21.5
18 Yahoo 483 21.4
19 L-3 Communications 174 20.5
20 Newmont Mining 257 20.1
21 EOG Resources 263 19.9
22 Apache 154 19.8
23 WellPoint 45 19.2
24 Comcast 49 19.2
25 Tesoro 101 19.1
26 Qualcomm 178 18.8
27 O'Reilly Automotive 424 18.1
28 Oshkosh 337 18.0
29 CBRE Group 416 17.6
30 Plains All American Pipeline 87 17.4
31 AmerisourceBergen 29 17.4
32 Express Scripts Holding 60 17.3
33 Reliance Steel & Aluminum 315 17.2
34 Western Digital 276 17.2
35 Dick's Sporting Goods 466 17.1
36 CVS Caremark 18 17.1
37 Nucor 138 17.1
38 CHS 78 16.7
39 Cameron International 362 16.1
39 Whole Foods Market 264 16.1
41 Starbucks 227 16.0
42 Danaher 158 15.8
43 UnitedHealth Group 22 15.8
44 Alliant Techsystems 491 15.5
44 DaVita 359 15.5
46 St. Jude Medical 437 15.3
47 Thermo Fisher Scientific 225 15.3
48 URS 275 15.2
49 PVH 419 15.2
50 Archer Daniels Midland 28 14.9
Issue date: May 21, 2012
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Google 73
NetApp 474
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Company 2011 $ (millions)
Exxon $41,060.0
Chevron $26,895.0
Apple $25,922.0
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