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Process used for determining the DeMarche
"America's 100 Most-Improved Companies:"
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Score the 3,000 most-liquid (trading
volume) companies by seven fundamental operating metrics, such as asset
utilization and return on equity |
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Rank companies from best to worst based on:
Current average 3-year
migration minus 3-year average migration from preceding 3-year period |
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Exclude any company with an Altman solvency
score below 1.81 |
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Exclude ADR's and REIT's |
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From that list, take the top 200 companies |
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Within the list of 200, take the top two
companies from each of 23 S&P industry codes. Do not go outside the top 200
even if an industry did not have at least two companies. Those industries
simply did not warrant equal representation. |
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To complete the list of 100, then take the
highest ranked remaining companies until the list is completed. This step is
further constrained in that no one industry can have more than eight companies. |
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact:
Marketing Services
DeMarche Associates, Inc.
(913) 384-4994 |
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