100 Best Small Companies in America

For the first time, 24/7 Wall St. presents the 100 Best Small Companies in America. To be considered, companies had to be publicly traded with more than  $5 million and less than $1 billion in revenue.  24/7 Wall St.’s inaugural 100 Best Small Companies in America is comprised of America’s best publicly traded companies marked by outsized revenue, growth and innovation. Data for the analysis was provided by  S&P Capital IQ.

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The initial list based on the universe of public corporations with less than $1 billion in revenue. These companies are among the best for their size because they have increased revenue over the period covered by our analysis. Their relatively small sizes and robust sales expansion rates also makes it likely many will continue to grow even further, if the record of public company expansion is any example.  Past growth does not mean all of these firms will prosper, but most on this list have been consistently profitable, which adds to the chances of future progress.

Small companies, our research shows, usually have one or two specialized divisions and are focused on one core market. For instance, Steve Madden, True Religion and rue 21 have all carved out a niche segment in the apparel and footwear market. Their lack of diversity could be a drawback because the companies rely completely on one set of products, but it can also mean that management can be laser focused on a single opportunity.

Another industry which is well represented on this list is niche healthcare. Once again, most of the firms in this sector which made the list are in only one business. Mesa Labs makes manufacturing quality control products for medical devices. It is a narrow market, and there is no guarantee that a large device manufacturer might not attack the same sector. Bio-Reference Laboratories provides testing services. Cantel Medical provides infection prevention and control devices. This infection prevention business appears to be a relatively small one, but the overall medical industry in the US is expanding at such a rapid rate and regulations are changing so quickly that some of these companies will prosper because of these changes. Given the state of American healthcare costs, not many people would be surprised to see healthcare firms on a list of fast growing companies

These corporations are also often willing to take calculated risks, in some case, as they strive to expand their bases. Retailers are a good example.  Steve Madden, one of our companies, was started in 1990 with $1,100. The company has consistently added lines of apparel since then to increase revenue

Another reason to create this list is that 24/7 Wall St. recognizes that smaller companies continue to be a backbone of job growth. Corporations that are highly successful are roadmaps for the sort of industries, managements, and products and services which have done well recently. As recent access to capital has improved compared with access during the recession, well targeted and well run smaller businesses stand a much better chance of doing extremely well because they can tap pools of funding.   Methodology: We ranked these companies largely based on their growth rates as well as on how they have performed financially in the recent past. The pace of these growth rates allowed us to make a final selection and rank the companies when growth was combined with eight other categories. The 100 companies on our list had a median 20% sales growth and 30% earnings per share growth over the last 12 months. Similarly, the median stock price return for the latest year for this group was 16%, which is double the return of the S&P 500 index over the same time.

While stock market performance is one of our ranking criteria, we did not remove companies for poor performance because smaller companies tend to have greater price swings than the overall market. We should point out that this is not an investment list for value seekers. Maintaining these lofty growth rates is not an easy task.

S&P Capital IQ  provided us with corporate information, financial data and rankings based on a series of metrics. We started with a universe of 1,200 publicly traded, small companies, which we defined as having between $5 million and $1 billion in revenue over the last 12 months. To narrow this group down, we required that sales growth, earnings per share growth and return on equity to be greater than zero for both the latest 12 months and over the companies’ last five fiscal years. We also excluded companies whose stock price is lower than $5.This brought the size of the list to 164

The criteria we used to allow us to winnow the list to  100 companies  based on a few items which included stock price. We then assigned a rank based on all of the above growth metrics and stock price returns over one and five years. For companies whose shares were not traded for five years, we used annualized figures from their first trade date. From these category rankings, each company was given an overall score that was used to produce the list.

Brian Zajac

The financial data below is from the latest available reporting period and price change is as of March 21, 2012.

• Revenue: $933 million
• Market Cap: $1.3 billion
• CEO: Clark, Andrew
• Industry: Diversified Consumer Services
• Headquarters: San Diego, California
• Year Founded: 1999
• Ticker: BPI (get quote)

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Bridgepoint Education, Inc. provides postsecondary education services. It offers associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in the disciplines of business, education, psychology, social sciences, and health sciences. The company offers its programs at campuses of its Ashford University located in Clinton, Iowa; and University of the Rockies located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as well as through online. As of December 31, 2011, it provided approximately 1,430 courses, 85 degree programs, and 140 specializations; and had 86,642 total enrolled students. The company was formerly known as TeleUniversity, Inc. and changed its name to Bridgepoint Education, Inc. in February 2004. Bridgepoint Education, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

• Revenue: $198 million
• Market Cap: $3 billion
• CEO: Thompson, Kevin
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Austin, Texas
• Year Founded: 1999
• Ticker: SWI (get quote)

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SolarWinds, Inc. designs, develops, markets, sells, and supports enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure management software for IT professionals in various organizations in the United States and internationally. The company offers enterprise-class IT management products, including Network Performance Monitor, a server-based fault and performance management platform to minimize network downtime; Network Performance Monitor modules, a series of add-ons; network configuration manager to automate the processes of network device discovery, network inventory management, and network change management; user device tracker, a server-based switch port management tool; scalability engines to increase the scale of a number of the products; and enterprise operations console to provide web-based views of various instances of Network Performance Monitor modules and Application Performance Monitor. Its enterprise-class network and IT management products also comprise Application Performance Monitor, a server-based availability and performance management system for applications and server infrastructure; patch manager to automate the process of deploying, managing, and reporting on patches and configuration settings; and synthetic end user monitor to capture the user steps of any web application and monitor the end-user experience; storage manager that combines reporting, monitoring, and notification on the performance of storage resources; backup profiler to provide a consolidated view of the status of backup operations; virtualization manager to manage various aspects of virtual server infrastructure; and log and event manager to automate the collection and interpretation of logs. In addition, the company provides free tools, such as desktop, laptop, server-based, or internet-based applications; and tools and toolsets for specific solutions of routine and complicated tasks. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

• Revenue: $329 million
• Market Cap: $940 million
• CEO: Fifer, Michael
• Industry: Leisure Equipment and Products
• Headquarters: Southport, Connecticut
• Year Founded: 1948
• Ticker: RGR (get quote)

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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of firearms in the United States. It offers single-shot, autoloading, bolt-action, and sporting rifles; shotguns; rim fire autoloading and center fire autoloading pistols; and single-action and double-action revolvers. The company also manufactures and sells accessories and replacement parts for its firearms. In addition, it provides investment castings made from steel alloys directly or through manufacturers’ representatives. The company sells its firearm products through independent wholesale distributors to the commercial sporting market under the Ruger name; and exports its firearms through a network of commercial distributors and directly to law enforcement agencies and foreign governments. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. was founded in 1948 and is based in Southport, Connecticut.

• Revenue: $987 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Rosenfeld, Edward
• Industry: Textiles, Apparel and Luxury Goods
• Headquarters: Long Island City, New York
• Year Founded: 1990
• Ticker: SHOO (get quote)

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Steven Madden, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, designs, sources, markets, and sells fashion-forward name brand and private label footwear for women, men, and children. It offers wholesale footwear under the Steve Madden Women’s, Madden Girl, Steve Madden Men’s, Steven, l.e.i., Elizabeth and James, Olsenboye, Stevies, Big Buddha Shoes, Madden, Betsey Johnson shoes, Report, and Superga to department stores, mid-tier department stores, better specialty stores, and independently owned boutiques in the United States. The company also provides wholesale handbags and accessories under the Daisy Fuentes, Olsenboye, Steve Madden, Steven by Steve Madden, Betsey Johnson, Betseyville, and Big Buddha brand names, as well as sells cold weather accessories, fashion scarves, wraps, and other trend accessories primarily under the Cejon and Steve Madden brand names to department stores and specialty stores. As of December 31, 2011, it operated 84 retail stores, including 73 Steve Madden full price stores, 6 Steve Madden outlet stores, 3 Steven stores, 1 Report store, and 1 e-commerce Website. In addition, the company licenses its Steve Madden and Steven by Steve Madden trademarks for use in connection with the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of cold weather accessories, sunglasses, eyewear, outerwear, bedding, hosiery and women’s fashion apparel, jewelry, and luggage, as well as licenses Betsey Johnson and Betseyville trademarks for sale of apparel, jewelry, swimwear, eyewear, watches, fragrances, and outerwear. Steven Madden, Ltd. distributes its products through its retail stores and e-commerce Website in department stores, specialty stores, luxury retailers, national chains, and mass merchants in the United States; and through special distribution arrangements in Asia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, Australia, Central and South America, and India. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Long Island City, New York.

• Revenue: $826 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Tolan, Mary
• Industry: Healthcare Providers and Services
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
• Year Founded: 2003
• Ticker: AH (get quote)

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Accretive Health, Inc. provides revenue cycle management services for hospitals and healthcare providers in the United States. It offers integrated revenue cycle management services that help healthcare providers to manage their revenue cycles, which encompass patient registration, insurance and benefit verification, medical treatment documentation and coding, bill preparation, and collections; quality and total cost of care services, which enable healthcare providers to manage the health of a defined patient population by identifying those individuals who are most likely to experience an adverse health event; and physician advisory services. Accretive Health, Inc. serves multi-hospital systems, including faith-based or community healthcare systems, academic medical centers, independent ambulatory clinics, and physician practice groups. The company was formerly known as Healthcare Services, Inc. and changed its name to Accretive Health, Inc. in August 2009. Accretive Health, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

• Revenue: $474 million
• Market Cap: $2.5 billion
• CEO: Gapontsev, Valentin
• Industry: Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components
• Headquarters: Oxford, Massachusetts
• Year Founded: 1990
• Ticker: IPGP (get quote)

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IPG Photonics Corporation develops and manufactures fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers, and diode lasers. Its laser products include low, medium, and high output power lasers from 0.5 to 2 microns in wavelength; fiber pigtailed packaged diodes and fiber coupled direct diode laser systems; high-energy pulsed lasers, multi-wavelength and tunable lasers, and single-polarization and single-frequency lasers; solid-state lasers; laser diode chips and packaged laser diodes operating at 9XX nanometers; and high power optical fiber delivery cables, fiber couplers, beam switches, chillers, and accessories. The company also offers erbium-doped fiber and Raman amplifiers, and integrated communications systems; ytterbium and thulium specialty fiber amplifiers and broadband light sources; and single-frequency, linearly polarized, and polarization-maintaining amplifier products, as well as integrated laser systems, including welding seam stepper and picker, and laser marking and welding systems. Its lasers and amplifiers are used in materials processing applications; manufacturing of commercial systems; and research in advanced technologies and products by commercial firms, and academic and government institutions, as well as micro-processing, surface treatment, drilling, soldering, annealing, hardening, rapid prototyping, and laser-assisted machining. In addition, the company designs and manufactures dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transport systems; a range of fiber amplifiers; and Raman pump lasers, which enable data transmission in broadband access and DWDM optical networks, as well as sells commercial fiber and diode lasers for use in medical laser systems. It markets its products to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, and end users through direct sales force, as well as through agreements with independent sales representatives and distributors worldwide. IPG Photonics Corporation was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Oxford, Massachusetts.

• Revenue: $784 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Smith, Sally
• Industry: Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure
• Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Year Founded: 1982
• Ticker: BWLD (get quote)

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Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. engages in the ownership, operation, and franchise of restaurants primarily in the United States. The company offers chicken and various food and beverage items, as well as serves bottled beers, wines, and liquor. It operates its restaurants under Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar brand name. As of February 07, 2012, the company had 827 Buffalo Wild Wings locations across 47 states in the United States, as well as in Canada. Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Revenue: $427 million
• Market Cap: $799 million
• CEO: Mueller, Brian
• Industry: Diversified Consumer Services
• Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona
• Year Founded: 1949
• Ticker: LOPE (get quote)

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Grand Canyon Education, Inc. provides postsecondary education services in the United States and Canada. It focuses on offering graduate and undergraduate degree programs in education, healthcare, business, and liberal arts disciplines. The company provides its courses through traditional ground campus in Phoenix, Arizona; online; and onsite at the facilities of employers. As of December 31, 2011, it had 43,917 students enrolled in its courses. The company was formerly known as Significant Education, Inc. and changed its name to Grand Canyon Education, Inc. in May 2008. Grand Canyon Education, Inc. was founded in 1949 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

• Revenue: $805 million
• Market Cap: $869 million
• CEO: Golsen, Jack
• Industry: Chemicals
• Headquarters: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Year Founded: 1968
• Ticker: LXU (get quote)

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LSB Industries, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of geothermal and water source heat pumps, air handling products, and chemical products. The company operates in two segments, Climate Control Business and Chemical Business. The Climate Control Business segment manufactures and sells heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) products that include geothermal and water source heat pumps; hydronic fan coils; and other HVAC products, such as custom air handlers and modular geothermal chillers. Its HVAC products are used in commercial/institutional and residential new building construction, renovation of existing buildings, and replacement of existing systems. This segment sells its products principally to original equipment manufacturers, contractors, and independent sales representatives, as well as hotels, motels, schools, hospitals, apartment and office buildings, and other commercial/institutional or residential structures. The Chemical segment manufactures and sells anhydrous ammonia, fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate, urea ammonium nitrate, and ammonium nitrate ammonia solution for agricultural applications; commercial grade anhydrous ammonia, ammonium nitrate, sulfuric acids, nitric acids in various concentrations, mixed nitrating acids, and diesel exhaust fluid for industrial applications; and industrial grade ammonium nitrate and solutions for the mining industry. This segment sells its products primarily to the polyurethane, paper, fibers, fuel additives, emission control, and electronics industries, as well as to farmers, ranchers, fertilizer dealers, distributors, and explosive manufacturers. Further, the company sells industrial machinery and related components to machine tool dealers and end users. LSB Industries, Inc. sells its products primarily in Canada, the Middle East, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, and south and east Asia. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

• Revenue: $51 million
• Market Cap: $294 million
• CEO: Morgan, John
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Year Founded: 1988
• Ticker: WINA (get quote)

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Winmark Corporation operates as a franchisor of four retail store concepts that buy, sell, trade, and consign merchandise. The company franchises retail stores under the ÔPlato’s Closet’ name that sell and buy used clothing and accessories geared toward the teenage and young adult market; and under the ÔPlay It Again Sports’ name, which sell, buy, trade, and consign used and new sporting goods, equipment, and accessories for various athletic activities, including hockey, wheeled sports, fitness, ski/snowboard, golf, and baseball/softball. It engages in franchising ÔOnce Upon A Child’ branded retail stores that sell and buy used and new children’s clothing, toys, furniture, equipment, and accessories; and ÔMusic Go Round’ branded retail stores that sell, buy, trade, and consign used and new musical instruments, speakers, amplifiers, music-related electronics, and related accessories for parents of children who play musical instruments, as well as for professional and amateur musicians. In addition, the company operates a middle-market equipment leasing business focusing on technology-based assets to serve large and medium-sized businesses; and a small-ticket financing business to serve small businesses. Further, it offers management services to Tomsten, Inc. As of September 24, 2011, the company had 923 franchises in operation. Winmark Corporation was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Revenue: $461 million
• Market Cap: $1.2 billion
• CEO: Ray, Michael
• Industry: Textiles, Apparel and Luxury Goods
• Headquarters: Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Year Founded: 1982
• Ticker: VRA (get quote)

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Vera Bradley, Inc., through its subsidiary, Vera Bradley Designs, Inc., engages in the design, production, marketing, and retail of stylish and functional accessories for women under the ÔVera Bradley’ brand. Its products include a range of handbags, accessories, and travel and leisure items. The company sells its products to specialty retailers primarily in the United States, as well as to national retailers and third party e-commerce sites. As of January 28, 2012, it sold its products directly through 48 full-price stores and 8 outlet stores in the United States; 7 pop-up stores in Japan; Websites, including verabradley.com and verabradley.co.jp; and an annual outlet sale in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

• Revenue: $558 million
• Market Cap: $420 million
• CEO: Gordman, Jeffrey
• Industry: Multiline Retail
• Headquarters: Omaha, Nebraska
• Year Founded: 1915
• Ticker: GMAN (get quote)

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Gordmans Stores, Inc. operates department stores under the Gordmans name in the United States. Its merchandise selection includes a range of apparel, footwear, home fashions products, and accessories, including fragrances. The company offers apparels, including young men’s, men’s, juniors’, women’s, team, plus sizes, maternity, and children’s clothing comprising offerings for infants, toddlers, boys, and girls; and accessories consisting of designer fragrances, intimate apparel, handbags, sunglasses, fashion jewelry, legwear, and sleepwear. Its home fashions products consist of wall art, photo frames, accent furniture, accent lighting, candles, ceramics, vases, seasonal decor, floral and garden, gourmet food and candy, toys, luggage, pet accessories, housewares, decorative pillows, fashion rugs, and bedding and bath products. As of January 28, 2012, the company operated 74 stores located in various shopping center developments, including regional enclosed shopping malls, lifestyle centers, and power centers in 16 Midwestern states. Gordmans Stores, Inc. was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

• Revenue: $553 million
• Market Cap: $3 billion
• CEO: Dubyak, Michael
• Industry: IT Services
• Headquarters: South Portland, Maine
• Year Founded: 1983
• Ticker: WXS (get quote)

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Wright Express Corporation provides business payment processing and information management solutions in North America, the Asia Pacific, and Europe. It operates in two segments, Fleet Payment Solutions and Other Payment Solutions. The Fleet Payment Solutions segment offers payment and transaction processing, and account and information management services to commercial and government fleets. This segment markets its products and services directly and indirectly through co-branded, affinity, distributor, or private label relationships. The Other Payment Solutions segment provides payment processing solutions for corporate purchasing and transaction monitoring needs. This segment’s products include corporate charge cards that provide commercial travel and entertainment, and purchase capabilities to businesses; and single use account that allow businesses to use for transactions where no card is presented. This segment markets its products and services directly to commercial and government organizations; and brand stores, government departments, and service organizations. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in South Portland, Maine.

• Revenue: $760 million
• Market Cap: $718 million
• CEO: Fisch, Robert
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Headquarters: Warrendale, Pennsylvania
• Year Founded: 1976
• Ticker: RUE (get quote)

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rue21, inc. operates as a specialty apparel retailer in the United States. It provides fashion apparel and accessories for girls and guys, including graphic T-shirts, denim, dresses, shirts, hoodies, belts, jewelry, handbags, footwear, intimate apparel, and other accessories. The company sells its apparel and accessories under the brand names of rue21, rue21 etc!, tarea by rue21, Carbon and CJ Black, and Carbon Elements; and fragrances under the rue by rue21, revert eco rue21, CJ Black, sparkle rue21, Pink Ice by rue21, MetroBlack rue21, tarea by rue21, twentyone black, runway21 by rue21, Carbon Elements, Intense by rue21, and rue21 etc! brand names. As of January 28, 2012, it operated 755 stores in 713 cities in 46 states. rue21, inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania.

• Revenue: $260 million
• Market Cap: $680 million
• CEO: Boston, Wallace
• Industry: Diversified Consumer Services
• Headquarters: Charles Town, West Virginia
• Year Founded: 1991
• Ticker: APEI (get quote)

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American Public Education, Inc., together with its subsidiary, American Public University System, Inc., provides online postsecondary education focusing on the needs of the military and public service communities. The company operates through two universities, American Military University (AMU) and American Public University (APU) serving approximately 110,000 students in the United States and internationally. The universities share a common faculty and curriculum, which includes 87 degree programs and 69 certificate programs in disciplines related to national security, military studies, intelligence, homeland security, criminal justice, technology, business administration, education, nursing, and liberal arts. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Charles Town, West Virginia.

• Revenue: $520 million
• Market Cap: $3.2 billion
• CEO: Clarke, Ronald
• Industry: IT Services
• Headquarters: Norcross, Georgia
• Year Founded: 1986
• Ticker: FLT (get quote)

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FleetCor Technologies, Inc. provides specialized payment products and services to businesses, commercial fleets, oil companies, petroleum marketers, and government entities in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Asia. It sells a range of customized fleet and lodging payment programs; and offers various card products to purchase fuel, lodging, and related products and services at participating locations. The company also offers prepaid fuel and food vouchers and cards, as well as a telematics solution that enables fleet operators to monitor the capacity utilization and movement of vehicles and drivers. It owns and operates eight proprietary closed-loop networks through which it electronically connects to merchants, and captures, analyzes, and reports customized information. In addition, the company uses third-party networks to deliver its payment programs and services; and provides a range of services, such as issuing and processing, and specialized information services. It sells its products and services directly, as well as through strategic relationships with oil companies and petroleum marketers. FleetCor Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia.

• Revenue: $418 million
• Market Cap: $3 billion
• CEO: Plochocki, Steven
• Industry: Health Care Technology
• Headquarters: Irvine, California
• Year Founded: 1974
• Ticker: QSII (get quote)

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Quality Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and markets healthcare information systems in the United States. The company operates through four divisions: QSI Dental, NextGen, Inpatient Solutions, and Practice Solutions. The QSI Dental division develops, markets, and supports software suites for dental practices; and practice management software, which is designed to automate and streamline various administrative functions required for operating a medical or dental practice. It also supports various organizations utilizing its Software as a Service model-based NextDDS financial and clinical software, as well as certain medical clients that utilize its UNIX-based medical practice management software; and provides dental electronic data interchange (EDI)/connectivity applications, including QSInet application service provider. The NextGen division offers integrated clinical, financial, and connectivity solutions for ambulatory and dental provider organizations, which include NextGen Ambulatory product suite comprising electronic health records, practice management, dashboard, mobile solutions, and digital pen; and NextGen Community Connectivity product suite consisting of health information exchange, patient portal, and quality measurement and reporting solutions. This division also provides EDI, hosting, data protection, and consulting services. The Inpatient Solutions division offers integrated clinical, financial, and connectivity solutions for rural and community hospitals comprising NextGen Clinicals for work efficiency and communication; and NextGen Financials, a financial and administrative system. The Practice Solutions division provides technology solutions and consulting services in the areas of revenue cycle management services, including billing and collection services for medical practices. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

• Revenue: $513 million
• Market Cap: $1.4 billion
• CEO: Roper, Martin
• Industry: Beverages
• Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
• Year Founded: 1984
• Ticker: SAM (get quote)

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The Boston Beer Company, Inc. engages in the production and sale of alcohol beverages primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, and Mexico. The company sells approximately 50 beers under the Samuel Adams or the Sam Adams brand names; 7 flavored malt beverages under the Twisted Tea brand name; 3 hard cider beverages under the Angry Orchard brand name; and 1 hard cider under the HardCore brand name. It also offers brewing and packaging services to third parties under contracts. The company sells its products to a network of wholesale distributors, who in turn sell to retailers, such as pubs, restaurants, grocery chains, package stores, stadiums, and other retail outlets. The Boston Beer Company, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

• Revenue: $139 million
• Market Cap: $54 million
• CEO: Gilbert, W.
• Industry: Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components
• Headquarters: Newark, New York
• Year Founded: 1966
• Ticker: IEC (get quote)

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IEC Electronics Corp. provides electronic contract manufacturing services to advanced technology companies in the United States. It specializes in the custom manufacture of complex circuit cards and system-level assemblies; an array of cable and wire harness assemblies; and precision sheet metal components. The company offers its assemblies for use in various products, such as military and defense systems, transportation products, wireless communication systems, and medical systems and instruments. It serves military and aerospace, industrial and communications, medical, and other sectors through a direct sales force, as well as through a network of manufacturers’ representatives. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Newark, New York.

• Revenue: $169 million
• Market Cap: $844 million
• CEO: Raina, Robin
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia
• Year Founded: 1976
• Ticker: EBIX (get quote)

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Ebix, Inc. provides on-demand software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry. The company operates data exchanges, which connects multiple entities within the insurance markets and enables the participant to carry and process data from one end to another in the areas of life insurance, annuities, employee health benefits, risk management, workers compensation, and property and casualty (P&C) insurance. It is also involved in designing and deploying broker systems comprising three back-end systems consisting of eGlobal for multinational P&C insurance brokers; WinBeat for P&C brokers in the Australian and New Zealand markets; and EbixASP for the P&C insurance brokers in the United States. In addition, the company offers business process outsourcing services, which include certificate origination, certificate tracking, claims adjudication call center, and back office support. Further, it focuses on designing and deploying on-demand and back-end carrier systems, such as Ebix Advantage and Ebix Advantageweb targeted at small, medium, and large P&C carriers in the United States and internationally that operate in the personal, commercial, and specialty line areas of insurance. Additionally, Ebix, Inc. provides software development, customization, and consulting services to various companies in the insurance industry, such as carriers, brokers, exchanges, and standard making bodies. The company was formerly known as Delphi Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Ebix, Inc. in December 2003. Ebix, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

• Revenue: $378 million
• Market Cap: $422 million
• CEO: Henderson, William
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Headquarters: Bentonville, Arkansas
• Year Founded: 1981
• Ticker: CRMT (get quote)

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America’s Car-Mart, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an automotive retailer in the United States. It primarily sells older model used vehicles and provides financing for its customers. As of February 3, 2012, the company operated 112 automotive dealerships in 9 states. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Bentonville, Arkansas.

• Revenue: $857 million
• Market Cap: $1.3 billion
• CEO: Truesdale, Anthony
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Headquarters: North Bergen, New Jersey
• Year Founded: 1977
• Ticker: VSI (get quote)

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Vitamin Shoppe, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer and direct marketer of nutritional products in the United States. It offers vitamins, minerals, herbs, and homeopathic remedies; specialty supplements, such as fish oil, probiotics, glucosamine, and Co Q10; and sports nutrition and weight management products, as well as natural bath and beauty, pet supplements, and options for a home. The company sells its products under its Vitamin Shoppe, BodyTech, True Athlete, and Optimal Pet brands, which include products such as Ultimate Man, Ultimate Women, Whey Tech Pro 24 and Natural Whey Protein, as well as national brands, such as Optimum Nutrition, USP Labs, Garden of Life, Cytosport, Nature’s Way, Solaray, and Solgar. Vitamin Shoppe sells its products through its retail stores, mail order catalogs, and Internet, primarily at vitaminshoppe.com. As of January 28, 2012, it operated 533 stores in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The company was formerly known as VS Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. in November 2009. Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in North Bergen, New Jersey.

• Revenue: $856 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Bassoul, Selim
• Industry: Machinery
• Headquarters: Elgin, Illinois
• Year Founded: 1888
• Ticker: MIDD (get quote)

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The Middleby Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and service of commercial foodservice and food processing equipment in the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. The company’s Commercial Foodservice Equipment Group segment manufactures cooking equipment for restaurants and institutional kitchens. Its product line comprises conveyor ovens, ranges, steamers, convection ovens, combi-ovens, broilers and steam cooking equipment, induction cooking systems, baking and proofing ovens, char broilers, catering equipment, fryers, toasters, hot food servers, food warming equipment, griddles, and coffee and beverage dispensing equipment. This segment’s products are sold and marketed under the brand names of Anets, Beech, Blodgett, Blodgett Combi, Blodgett Range, Bloomfield, Britannia, CTX, Carter-Hoffmann, CookTek, Doyon, Frifri, Giga, Holman, Houno, IMC, Jade, Lang, Lincat, MagiKitch’n, Middleby Marshall, MPC, Nu-Vu, PerfectFry, Pitco, Southbend, Star, Toastmaster, TurboChef, and Wells. The Middleby’s Food Processing Equipment Group segment manufactures preparation, cooking, packaging, and food safety equipment for the food processing industry. Its principal products include batch ovens, belt ovens, continuous processing ovens, automated thermal processing systems, automated loading and unloading systems, meat presses, reduction and emulsion systems, defrosting equipment, and packaging and food safety equipment, as well as breading, battering, mixing, forming, grinding and slicing, and food suspension equipment. This segment’s products are sold and marketed under the Alkar, Armor Inox, Auto-Bake, Danfotech, Drake, Maurer-Atmos, MP Equipment, and RapidPak brand names. The company was formerly known as Middleby Marshall Oven Company and changed its name to The Middleby Corporation in 1985. The Middleby Corporation was founded in 1888 and is based in Elgin, Illinois.

• Revenue: $952 million
• Market Cap: $1.4 billion
• CEO: Black, R.
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Headquarters: Hampstead, Maryland
• Year Founded: 1905
• Ticker: JOSB (get quote)

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Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. engages in designing, manufacturing, retailing, and direct marketing men’s tailored and casual clothing, and accessories in the United States. Its product offerings include tuxedos, suits, shirts, vests, ties, sport coats, pants, sportswear, overcoats, sweaters, belts and braces, socks, and underwear. The company sells its products primarily under the Jos. A. Bank label through its own and franchised stores, and catalog call centers, as well as the Internet at josbank.com. It also sells branded shoes from various vendors; and operates as a retailer of tuxedo rental products. As of January 28, 2012, it operated 556 retail stores, which include 516 full-line stores, 25 outlet and factory stores, and 15 stores franchise stores in 43 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1905 and is based in Hampstead, Maryland.

• Revenue: $37 million
• Market Cap: $162 million
• CEO: Sullivan, John
• Industry: Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components
• Headquarters: Lakewood, Colorado
• Year Founded: 1982
• Ticker: MLAB (get quote)

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Mesa Laboratories, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets instruments and disposable products utilized primarily in healthcare, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, medical device, and petrochemical industries. The company offers DATATRACE data loggers that are used in critical manufacturing, quality control, and validation applications to measure temperature, humidity, and pressure inside a process or inside a product during manufacturing; and biological indicators and chemical indicators used to assess the effectiveness of sterilization processes, including steam, gas, hydrogen peroxide, and radiation under the Mesa, Apex, SGM Biotech, and Raven brands. It also provides Torqo torque testing systems, which are used to measure bottle cap tightness in the beverage and pharmaceutical industries; Medical meters, which are used for quality control in dialysis clinics and dialysis machine manufacturing operations; and Nusonics concentration analyzers, pipeline interface detectors, and flow meter products used in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, and plastics industries. It sells its products through direct sales, marketing staff, and distributors in the United States, Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia, South America, Canada, and Mexico. Mesa Laboratories, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado.

• Revenue: $784 million
• Market Cap: $6 billion
• CEO: Abbasi, Sohaib
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Redwood City, California
• Year Founded: 1993
• Ticker: INFA (get quote)

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Informatica Corporation provides enterprise data integration and data quality software and services worldwide. The company offers PowerCenter, which integrates data virtually from business systems in various formats and delivers that data throughout the enterprise; PowerExchange that enables information technology organizations to access the sources of enterprise data without having to develop custom data access programs; and Data Services for finding, integrating, and managing data in the enterprise. It also provides Data Quality, which delivers data quality to stakeholders, projects, and data domains; Master Data Management that offers consolidated business-critical data; and B2B Data Exchange software for multi-enterprise data integration. In addition, the company offers Application Information Lifecycle Management products to manage various phases of the data lifecycle; Data Replication, an enterprise software for real-time database data movement and heterogeneous data integration; Complex Event Processing to detect, correlate, analyze, and respond to data-driven events; Ultra Messaging products, which enables ultralow latency messaging, and systems that reduce hardware infrastructure costs; Cloud Data Integration; and Cloud Services that deliver purpose-built data integration cloud applications. Further, it provides product-related customer support, consulting, and education services. Informatica Corporation serves aerospace, automotive, energy and utilities, entertainment/media, financial services, healthcare/life sciences, high technology, insurance, manufacturing, public sector, retail, services, telecommunications, and travel/transportation industries through its direct sales force, as well as through systems integrators, resellers, distributors, and original equipment manufacturer partners. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

• Revenue: $587 million
• Market Cap: $653 million
• CEO: Grodman, Marc
• Industry: Healthcare Providers and Services
• Headquarters: Elmwood Park, New Jersey
• Year Founded: 1981
• Ticker: BRLI (get quote)

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Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. provides clinical laboratory testing services for the detection, diagnosis, evaluation, monitoring, and treatment of diseases primarily in the greater New York metropolitan area. The company offers chemical diagnostic tests, such as blood and urine analysis, blood chemistry, hematology services, serology, radio-immuno analysis, toxicology, pap smears, tissue pathology, and other tissue analysis, as well as performs cancer cytogenetic testing. It primarily focuses on esoteric testing, molecular diagnostics, anatomical pathology, genetics, women’s health, and correctional health care services. In addition, the company operates a clinical knowledge management service unit, which uses customer data from laboratory results, pharmaceutical data, claims data and other data sources to provide administrative and clinical decision support systems; and a Web-based connectivity portal solution for laboratories and physicians. Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. provides its services directly to physicians, geneticists, hospitals, clinics, and correctional and other health facilities. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Elmwood Park, New Jersey.

• Revenue: $733 million
• Market Cap: $1.4 billion
• CEO: Rosenthal, Jeffry
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Headquarters: Birmingham, Alabama
• Year Founded: 1945
• Ticker: HIBB (get quote)

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Hibbett Sports, Inc. operates sporting goods stores in small to mid-sized markets primarily in the southeast, southwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest regions of the United States. Its stores offer an assortment of merchandise, including athletic footwear, team sports equipment, athletic and fashion apparel, and related accessories. The company also provides its merchandise directly to educational institutions and youth associations. As of January 28, 2012, it operated 832 stores consisting of 812 Hibbett Sports stores, 19 smaller-format Sports Additions athletic shoe stores, and 1 larger-format Sports & Co. superstore in 26 states. The company was formerly known as Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc. and changed its name to Hibbett Sports, Inc. in January 2007. Hibbett Sports, Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

• Revenue: $826 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Kania, Don
• Industry: Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components
• Headquarters: Hillsboro, Oregon
• Year Founded: 1971
• Ticker: FEIC (get quote)

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FEI Company supplies scientific instruments for nanoscale imaging, analysis, and prototyping that enable research, development, and manufacturing in industrial, academic, and research institutional applications. Its products include transmission electron microscopes and scanning electron microscopes (SEMs); DualBeam systems, which include a SEM and focused ion beam system (FIB) on a single platform; and stand-alone FIBs. The company’s Electronics segment offers products used in laboratories to enhance new product development and increase yields by enabling 3D wafer metrology, defect analysis, root cause failure analysis, and circuit edit for modifying device structures in the semiconductor equipment and related industries, such as manufacturers of data storage equipment, solar panels, and light-emitting diodes. FEI Company’s Materials Science segment provides atomic-level resolution images and permit development, analysis, and production of products that are used in mining for automated mineralogy, and oil and gas exploration to universities, and public and private research laboratories, as well as natural resources, petrochemicals, metals, automobiles, aerospace, and forensics industries. The company’s Life Sciences segment offers ultra-high resolution imaging products that allow structural and cellular biologists and drug researchers to create 3D reconstructions of biological structures, as well as used in particle analysis, and a range of pathology and quality control applications. FEI Company’s Service and Components segment provides technical support products and customers. The company sells its products through independent agents, distributors, and representatives in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and internationally. FEI Company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.

• Revenue: $920 million
• Market Cap: $5 billion
• CEO: Ranadive, Vivek
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Palo Alto, California
• Year Founded: 1985
• Ticker: TIBX (get quote)

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TIBCO Software Inc. provides middleware and infrastructure software worldwide. It offers products in the areas of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and core infrastructure; business optimization; and process automation and collaboration. Its SOA and core infrastructure product line helps organizations integrate their disparate systems and move towards flexible infrastructure comprised of services or discrete data components that can be assembled, orchestrated, and reused; and enables the creation, management, and virtualization of heterogeneous services. The company’s business optimization product portfolio assists organizations analyze data to create information and deliver it to employees, customers, and partners; and employees perform their jobs, and customers get information, as well as helps managers identify and analyze problems and opportunities. Its process automation and collaboration software helps organizations coordinate manual and automated process flows that span their business and enables employees to collaborate in real-time using social media; and coordinate the human and electronic resources inside a business and its network of customers and partners. The company also provides professional services, which include consulting services that comprise systems planning and design, installation, and systems integration; maintenance and support; training; and hosted services. It serves various industries, such as financial services, telecommunications, government, energy, life sciences, insurance, logistics, manufacturing, retail, and transportation. The company sells its products through direct sales force, as well as through software vendors, resellers, and systems integrators. TIBCO Software Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

• Revenue: $728 million
• Market Cap: $598 million
• CEO: Sakellaris, George
• Industry: Building Products
• Headquarters: Framingham, Massachusetts
• Year Founded: 2000
• Ticker: AMRC (get quote)

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Ameresco, Inc. provides energy efficiency solutions for facilities in North America. The company engages in the design, engineering, development, and installation of projects that reduce the energy, and operations and maintenance costs of its customers’ facilities. These projects primarily include various measures customized for the facility and designed to enhance the efficiency of building systems, such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and lighting systems. It also provides renewable energy projects and products, including the development, construction, operation of, and the arrangement of financing for, small-scale renewable energy plants that produce electricity, gas, heat, or cooling from renewable sources of energy; the sale of such electricity, processed LFG, heat, or cooling from plants that it owns; and the sale and installation of photovoltaic (PV) equipment, panels, and integrated PV systems. In addition, the company distributes PV panels, solar regulators, solar charge controllers, inverters, solar powered lighting systems, solar powered water pumps, solar panel mounting hardware, and other system components. Ameresco, Inc. offers its services primarily to governmental, educational, utility, healthcare and other institutional, commercial, and industrial entities. As of December 31, 2011, it constructed approximately 34 renewable energy projects; and owned and operated 22 small-scale renewable energy plants, including 19 renewable LFG plants, 2 waste water biogas plants, and 1 solar PV installation. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.

• Revenue: $400 million
• Market Cap: $975 million
• CEO: Sullivan, Tim
• Industry: Internet Software and Services
• Headquarters: Provo, Utah
• Year Founded: 1983
• Ticker: ACOM (get quote)

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Ancestry.com Inc. operates as an online family history resource for subscribers worldwide. The company’s subscribers use Web-based services and content collection to research their family histories, build their family trees, collaborate with other subscribers, upload their own records, and publish and share their stories. Its subscribers can search through its collection of various records that cover birth records, marriage and death records, census records, immigration documents, photographs, maps, military records, personal narratives, and newspapers. As of December 31, 2011, the company had 1.7 million paying subscribers. Ancestry.com Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Provo, Utah.

• Revenue: $906 million
• Market Cap: $3.3 billion
• CEO: Adair, A.
• Industry: Commercial Services and Supplies
• Headquarters: Fairfield, California
• Year Founded: 1982
• Ticker: CPRT (get quote)

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Copart, Inc. provides online auctions and vehicle remarketing services in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company offers a range of services for processing and selling vehicles over the Internet through its Virtual Bidding Second Generation Internet auction-style sales technology, to vehicle sellers, primarily insurance companies, banks and financial institutions, charities, car dealerships, fleet operators, and vehicle rental companies. Its services include online seller access, salvage estimation services, estimating services, end-of-life vehicle processing, virtual insured exchange, transportation services, vehicle inspection stations, on-demand reporting, DMV processing, flexible vehicle processing programs, member network, sales process, dealer services, direct services, and u-pull-it services, as well as CoPartfinder, an Internet-based used vehicle parts locator that provides vehicle dismantlers with resale opportunities for their purchases. The company sells its products to licensed vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, repair licensees, used vehicle dealers, and exporters, as well as the general public. Copart, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Fairfield, California.

• Revenue: $358 million
• Market Cap: $1.4 billion
• CEO: Angrick, William
• Industry: Internet Software and Services
• Headquarters: Washington, District Of Columbia
• Year Founded: 1999
• Ticker: LQDT (get quote)

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Liquidity Services, Inc. operates various online auction marketplaces for surplus and salvage assets in the United States. Its auction marketplaces include liquidation.com, which enables corporations and selected government agencies located in the United States to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods and capital assets; govliquidation.com that enables government agencies to sell surplus and scrap assets; govdeals.com, which enables local and state government entities, including city, county, and state agencies, as well as school boards and public utilities located in the United States to sell surplus and salvage assets. The company also operates secondipity.com that provides consumers a source of products and a socially conscious online experience through donating a portion of the proceeds of every sale to charity; and truckcenter.com, a marketplace for the sale of idle, surplus, and used fleet and transportation equipment. Its marketplaces provide professional buyers access to supply of surplus and salvage assets presented with customer focused information, including digital images and other relevant product information along with services to complete the transaction; and enable corporate and government sellers to enhance their financial return on excess assets by providing liquid marketplaces and value-added services that integrate sales and marketing, logistics, and transaction settlement. The company offers approximately 500 products organized into various categories, including consumer electronics, general merchandise, apparel, scientific equipment, aerospace parts and equipment, technology hardware, energy equipment, industrial capital assets, fleet and transportation equipment, and specialty equipment. Liquidity Services, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

• Revenue: $654 million
• Market Cap: $1.1 billion
• CEO: Todd, A.
• Industry: Healthcare Providers and Services
• Headquarters: Englewood, Colorado
• Year Founded: 1982
• Ticker: AIRM (get quote)

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Air Methods Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides air medical emergency transport services and systems in the United States. It transports persons requiring intensive medical care from either the scene of accident or general care hospitals to highly skilled trauma centers or tertiary care centers. The company operates through three segments: Community-Based Services, Hospital-Based Services, and United Rotorcraft. The Community-Based Services segment provides air medical transportation services, including aircraft operation and maintenance, medical care, dispatch and communications, and medical billing and collection services. This segment operates 201 helicopters and 15 fixed wing aircraft in 29 states. The Hospital-Based Services segment offers air medical transportation services, and medically equipped helicopters and airplanes for hospitals. It operates 212 helicopters and 6 fixed wing aircraft in 34 states. The United Rotorcraft segment designs, manufactures, installs, and certifies modular medical interiors, multi-mission interiors, and other aerospace and medical transport products for domestic and international customers, as well as provides quality assurance and certification services. Air Methods Corporation was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

• Revenue: $82 million
• Market Cap: $603 million
• CEO: Frist, Robert
• Industry: Health Care Technology
• Headquarters: Nashville, Tennessee
• Year Founded: 1990
• Ticker: HSTM (get quote)

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HealthStream, Inc. provides Internet-based learning and research solutions in the United States. The company operates in two segments, HealthStream Learning and HealthStream Research. The HealthStream Learning segment provides training, assessment, and education content with administrative and management tools through its Internet-based platforms, the HealthStream Learning Center and HealthStream Express; and various additional courseware subscriptions. Its learning management system supports healthcare administrators in configuring training for various groups of employees, modifying training materials, and documenting completed training. This segment also provides training, implementation, and account management services to facilitate adoption of its platform; Authoring Center to create online courses; HealthStream Competency Center, a software-as-a-service competency management solution; SimCenter that accelerates development and distribution of simulation content; and HealthStream Improvement Center to execute improvement plans, as well as various other educational activities to serve professionals. The HealthStream Research segment provides research solutions, such as Patient Insights, Employee Insights, Physician Insights, and Community Insights surveys; data analyses of survey results; and other research-based measurement tools. This segment provides analyses with insight; benchmarking capability using its databases; and consulting services to identify solutions based on survey results. The company markets its products and services through its direct sales teams, consultants, and account relationship managers to healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and other participants in the healthcare industry. HealthStream, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

• Revenue: $364 million
• Market Cap: $3 billion
• CEO: Lucia, William
• Industry: Healthcare Providers and Services
• Headquarters: New York, New York
• Year Founded: 1974
• Ticker: HMSY (get quote)

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HMS Holdings Corp. provides cost containment services to government and private healthcare payers and sponsors. The company’s services include coordination of benefits and program integrity services. Its coordination of benefits services provide cost avoidance services that offer validated insurance coverage information, which is used by government-sponsored payers to coordinate benefits for incoming claims; and program integrity services identify improper payments on a pre-payment and post-payment basis, recover overpayments, detect and prevent fraud and abuse, and identify process improvements. The company also offers audit programs, program design, benefit management, and general and pharmacy systems consulting services. It serves state Medicaid agencies, the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, Medicaid and Medicare managed care plans, government and private employers, pharmacy benefit managers, child support agencies, the Veterans Health Administration, commercial plans, and healthcare payors. HMS Holdings Corp. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

• Revenue: $529 million
• Market Cap: $913 million
• CEO: Berman, Steven
• Industry: Auto Components
• Headquarters: Colmar, Pennsylvania
• Year Founded: 1978
• Ticker: DORM (get quote)

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Dorman Products, Inc. supplies automotive replacement parts, fasteners, and service line products primarily for the automotive aftermarket. The company offers approximately 128,000 products comprising original equipment dealer parts, which include intake manifolds, exhaust manifolds, oil cooler lines, window regulators, radiator fan assemblies, power steering pulleys, and harmonic balancers; and replacement parts, such as window handles and switches, door hardware, interior trim parts, headlamp aiming screws and retainer rings, radiator parts, battery hold-down bolts and repair kits, valve train parts, and power steering filler caps. It also provides application specific and general automotive hardware, such as body hardware, general automotive fasteners, oil drain plugs, and wheel hardware; a selection of electrical connectors, wires, tools, testers, and accessories; and a line of home hardware and home organization products designed for retail merchandisers. In addition, the company offers a brake and clutch program; remanufactured automotive replacement parts, such as transfer case modules and instrument clusters; and heavy duty aftermarket parts for class 4-8 heavy vehicles, including coolant tubes, door handles and other body parts, fluid reservoirs, headlights and lighting, hood components, window regulators, and wiper transmissions. It sells its products under the OE Solutions, HELP!, AutoGrade, FirstStop, Conduct-Tite!, Pik-A-Nut, and HD Solutions brand names through automotive aftermarket retailers; national, regional, and local warehouse distributors; specialty markets; and salvage yards in the United States, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Canada. The company, formerly known as R&B, Inc., was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Colmar, Pennsylvania.

• Revenue: $641 million
• Market Cap: $2.3 billion
• CEO: Ranade, Prashant
• Industry: IT Services
• Headquarters: Troy, Michigan
• Year Founded: 1980
• Ticker: SYNT (get quote)

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Syntel, Inc. provides information technology (IT) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) services worldwide. It operates in four segments: Applications Outsourcing, KPO, e-Business, and TeamSourcing. The Applications Outsourcing segment provides software applications development, maintenance, testing, migration, and infrastructure services. The KPO segment offers a host of outsourced solutions for knowledge and business processes. It focuses on middle and back-office business processes of the transaction cycle in the capital markets, banking, healthcare, and insurance industries. The e-Business segment provides technology services in the areas of architecting, implementing, and maintaining Web solutions, data warehousing/business intelligence, enterprise application integration, business process management, and enterprise resource planning solutions. The TeamSourcing segment offers professional IT consulting services directly to customers on a staff augmentation basis. Its services include systems specification, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of complex IT applications involving computer hardware, software, data, and networking technologies and practices. Syntel, Inc. provides services to a range of companies primarily in the financial services, healthcare and life sciences, insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, logistics, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.

• Revenue: $517 million
• Market Cap: $1.2 billion
• CEO: Sondey, Brian
• Industry: Trading Companies and Distributors
• Headquarters: Purchase, New York
• Year Founded: 1963
• Ticker: TAL (get quote)

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TAL International Group, Inc. engages in leasing intermodal containers and chassis worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Equipment Leasing and Equipment Trading. The Equipment Leasing segment is involved in the acquisition, leasing, re-leasing, and sale of intermodal transportation equipment, including dry freight containers, which are used for general cargo, such as manufactured component parts, consumer staples, electronics, and apparel; and refrigerated containers that are used for perishable items comprising fresh and frozen foods. This segment also leases special containers, which are used for heavy and oversized cargo, including marble slabs, building products, and machinery; chassis that are used for the transportation of containers; and tank containers, which are used to transport bulk liquid products, such as chemicals. The Equipment Trading segment engages in the purchase of containers from shipping line customers and other sellers of containers, and resale of these containers to container traders and users of containers for storage and one-way shipments. As of December 31, 2011, the company’s fleet consisted of 1,009,644 containers and chassis, including 26,491 containers under management for third parties, representing 1,645,868 twenty-foot equivalent units. TAL International Group, Inc. was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

• Revenue: $309 million
• Market Cap: $1.2 billion
• CEO: Marr, John
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
• Year Founded: 1966
• Ticker: TYL (get quote)

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Tyler Technologies, Inc. provides integrated information management solutions and services for the public sector with a focus on local governments in the United States and internationally. The company offers financial management solutions, including modular fund accounting systems for government agencies and not-for-profit entities; and utility billing systems to support the billing and collection of metered and non-metered services. It also provides financial management systems, such as specialized products to automate various city functions, including municipal courts, parking tickets, equipment and project costing, animal and business licenses, permits and inspections, code enforcement, citizen complaint tracking, ambulance billing, fleet maintenance, and cemetery records management; and student information systems and transportation solutions to K-12 schools, as well as software applications to manage public sector pension funds. In addition, the company offers integrated suite of judicial solutions comprising court case management, court and law enforcement, prosecutor, and supervision systems to handle complex, multi-jurisdictional county, statewide implementations, and single county systems; systems and software to automate the appraisal and assessment of real and personal properties; tax applications for agencies that bill and collect taxes; and software applications that enable county governments to enhance and automate courthouse operations. Further, it provides subscription-based services, such as application service provider arrangements and other hosted service offerings, software subscriptions, and disaster recovery services; electronic document filing solutions for courts and law offices; professional IT services, including software and hardware installation, data conversion, training, and product modifications; and outsourced property appraisal services for taxing jurisdictions. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

• Revenue: $691 million
• Market Cap: $6.1 billion
• CEO: Cashman, James
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
• Year Founded: 1970
• Ticker: ANSS (get quote)

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ANSYS, Inc. develops and markets engineering simulation software and technologies used by engineers, designers, researchers, and students in aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, electronics, biomedical, energy, and defense industries and academia worldwide. Its products include ANSYS Workbench, a framework upon which the company’s suite of engineering simulation technologies are built; Multiphysics that creates virtual prototypes of designs; Structural Mechanics, which offers simulation tools for product design and optimization; Fluid Dynamics that provides modeling fluid flow and other related physical phenomena; and Explicit Dynamics, which simulates physical events. The company also offers Electromagnetics, which provides field simulation software for designing electronic and electromechanical products; System Simulation, a collaborative simulation environment providing modeling scalability for evaluating entire systems, including 3-D high-fidelity models, multibody dynamics, and circuit reduced-order models; and ANSYS Engineering Knowledge Manager, a solution for simulation-based process and data management. In addition, it provides academic product suite with a portfolio of academic products based on associate, research, and teaching; and high-performance computing (HPC) product suite delivering cross-physics parallel processing capability for the company’s simulation software by supporting structural, fluids, thermal, and electromagnetic simulations in a single HPC solution. Further, the company offers geometry handling solutions for engineering simulation; meshing technology that transforms a physical model into a mathematical model; and a suite of Apache software, which delivers power analysis and optimization platforms along with integrated methodologies for managing the power budget, power delivery integrity, and power-induced noise in an electronic design. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

• Revenue: $620 million
• Market Cap: $3 billion
• CEO: Hook, Lisa
• Industry: IT Services
• Headquarters: Sterling, Virginia
• Year Founded: 1996
• Ticker: NSR (get quote)

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NeuStar, Inc. provides technology and directory services to its communications service provider (carrier) and non-carrier, commercial business customers worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Carrier Services, Enterprise Services, and Information Services. The Carrier Services segment offers numbering, order management, and Internet Protocol (IP) services through its set of databases and system infrastructure in geographically dispersed data centers. It also facilitates order management and work flow processing among carriers, and allows operators to manage and optimize the addressing and routing of IP communications. The Enterprise Services segment provides Internet infrastructure and registry services. It offers a suite of domain name system services to enterprise customers through its global directory platform, including registry services; and manages directories of similar resources, or addresses. This segment also provides fixed IP geolocation services that help enterprises identify the location of their online consumers for various purposes, such as fraud prevention and marketing. In addition, it offers directory services for the 5 and 6-digit number strings used for the U.S. common short codes, which is part of the short messaging service relied upon by the U.S. wireless industry. The Information Services segment provides on-demand solutions that help carriers and enterprises identify, verify, score, and locate customers and prospective customers. The company serves traditional providers of communications, including local exchange carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, wireless service providers, and long distance carriers. It also serves emerging communication service providers and providers of VoIP services, as well as customers who are either enablers of Internet services or providers of information and content to Internet and telephone users. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sterling, Virginia.

• Revenue: $181 million
• Market Cap: $793 million
• CEO: Herington, Harry
• Industry: Internet Software and Services
• Headquarters: Olathe, Kansas
• Year Founded: 1991
• Ticker: EGOV (get quote)

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NIC Inc. provides eGovernment services that enable governments use the Internet to provide various services to businesses and citizens in the United States. It operates in two segments, Portal Outsourcing, and Software and Services. The Portal Outsourcing segment enters into long-term contracts with governments to design, build, and operate Web-based enterprise-wide portals on their behalf. These portals consist of Web sites and applications that enable businesses and citizens to access government information online and complete transactions, including applying for a permit, retrieving driver’s history records, and filing a government-mandated form or report. The Software and Services segment involves in the software development and services to state and local governments, and federal agencies; development and management of the national motor carrier pre-employment screening program; design and development of online campaign expenditure and ethics compliance systems for federal and state government agencies; and provision of software applications and services for electronic filings and document management for the California Secretary of State. It also provides consulting, application development, and portal management services to governments. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Olathe, Kansas.

• Revenue: $382 million
• Market Cap: $1.1 billion
• CEO: Rykhus, Daniel
• Industry: Industrial Conglomerates
• Headquarters: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
• Year Founded: 1956
• Ticker: RAVN (get quote)

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Raven Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures various products for industrial, agricultural, construction, and military/aerospace markets, primarily in North America. It operates in four segments: Applied Technology, Engineered Films, Electronic Systems, and Aerostar International, Inc. (Aerostar). The Applied Technology segment offers electronic and global positioning system devices, which are used primarily on agricultural sprayers for precision farming applications. It also develops products for field location control, chemical injection, and automated steering. This segment, through its home office personnel, sells agricultural control products to original equipment manufacturers and independent third-party distributors. It also markets its products using on-site precision agriculture representatives. The Engineered Films segment produces rugged reinforced plastic sheeting for industrial, construction, and agricultural applications. It sells plastic sheeting to independent third-party distributors through its sales force. The Electronic Systems segment provides electronics manufacturing services for commercial customers. It manufactures assemblies, including avionics, communication, environmental controls, and other products. The Aerostar segment sells high altitude and tethered aerostats for government and commercial research, and military parachutes. It produces uniforms and protective wear for the U.S. government agencies as a subcontractor, and manufactures other sewn and sealed products on a contract basis. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

• Revenue: $87 million
• Market Cap: $66 million
• CEO: Pagano, Dominick
• Industry: Aerospace and Defense
• Headquarters: Farmington, Connecticut
• Year Founded: 1946
• Ticker: EDAC (get quote)

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EDAC Technologies Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides design, manufacturing, and services for tooling, fixtures, molds, jet engine components, and machine spindles in the aerospace and industrial markets. The company produces low pressure turbine cases, hubs, rings, disks, and other tolerance components for various aircraft engine and ground turbine manufacturers. It also offers rotating components, such as disks, rings, and shafts; precision assembly services, including the assembly of jet engine sync rings, aircraft welding and riveting, post-assembly machining, and sutton barrel finishing. In addition, the company is involved in precision machining for the maintenance and repair of components in the aircraft engine industry. Further, it designs and manufactures fixtures, precision gauges, close tolerance plastic injection molds, and precision component molds for composite parts and specialized machinery. Additionally, the company designs, manufactures, and repairs various types of precision grinders, as well as precision rolling element bearing spindles, including hydrostatic and other precision rotary devices for machine tool manufacturers, special machine tool builders and integrators, industrial end-users, and powertrain machinery manufacturers and end-users. It serves a range of industries in areas, which include special tooling, equipment and gauges, and components used in the manufacture, assembly, and inspection of jet engines in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. EDAC Technologies Corporation was founded in 1946 and is based in Farmington, Connecticut.

• Revenue: $443 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Jornayvaz, Robert
• Industry: Chemicals
• Headquarters: Denver, Colorado
• Year Founded: 2000
• Ticker: IPI (get quote)

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Intrepid Potash, Inc. produces and markets muriate of potash and langbeinite under the Trio brand name primarily in the United States. Its langbeinite, sulfate of potash magnesia, is a low-chloride potassium fertilizer with the additional benefits of sulfate and magnesium, providing a multi_nutrient product. The company also offers by-products, such as salt, magnesium chloride, and metal recovery salts. It serves agricultural, industrial, and animal feed markets. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

• Revenue: $544 million
• Market Cap: $2.1 billion
• CEO: Packer, Richard
• Industry: Healthcare Equipment and Supplies
• Headquarters: Chelmsford, Massachusetts
• Year Founded: 1980
• Ticker: ZOLL (get quote)

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ZOLL Medical Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets resuscitation devices, related data management and software solutions, and temperature management technology worldwide. The company provides technologies that help clinicians, EMS and fire professionals, and lay rescuers in treating victims needing resuscitation and critical care. It offers lifevest wearable defibrillators for various indications comprising heart attack, before or after bypass surgery, or stent placement; patients with cardiomyopathy or congestive heart failures; and patients awaiting an implantable defibrillator or after removal of an implantable device due to infection or other reasons, as well as AutoPulse, an automated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device for the temporary circulation of blood for patients whose hearts have stopped beating. The company also provides professional defibrillators for use by health care professionals to treat patients with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA); automated external defibrillators that analyze the heart’s rhythm and allow a rescuer to deliver an electric shock to a victim of SCA; and disposable defibrillator electrodes to monitor and deliver electrical therapy to patients, as well as provide CPR feedback. In addition, it offers intravascular temperature management technology related to therapeutic hypothermia and rewarming; Power Infuser for the controlled and rapid delivery of intravenous fluids; ZOLL RescueNet, an integrated suite of data management solutions to maximize specific business processes; and CodeNet for data collection during resuscitation and organizing data into useful information related to performance measures for resuscitation practices. The company markets its products directly to hospitals and EMS organizations, as well through distributors, manufacturer’s representatives, and other indirect channels n the public safety market. ZOLL Medical Corporation was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

• Revenue: $310 million
• Market Cap: $454 million
• CEO: Mikles, Lee
• Industry: Chemicals
• Headquarters: St. Louis, Missouri
• Year Founded: 2005
• Ticker: FF (get quote)

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FutureFuel Corp., through its subsidiary, FutureFuel Chemical Company, engages in the manufacture and sale of specialty chemicals and bio-based products primarily in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Chemicals and Biofuels. The Chemicals segment provides custom chemical manufacturing services for specific customers, such as bleach activators for detergent and consumer products manufacturers; proprietary herbicide and intermediates for life sciences companies; agrochemicals; and industrial and consumer products, such as cosmetics and personal care products, ink colorants, adhesion promoters, polymer additives, polymer and specialty dyes, specialty polymers, photographic and imaging chemicals, and food additives. This segment also manufactures and sells a range of performance chemicals, including a family of polymer (nylon) modifiers and small-volume specialty chemicals for various applications; a family of acetal-based solvents, consisting of diethoxymethane, dimethoxymethane, dibutoxymethane, and glycerol formal; and phenol sulfonic acid that build on sulfonations technology. Its chemical products are used in various markets and end uses, including detergents, agrochemicals, automotive, photographic imaging, coatings, nutrition, and polymer additives. The Biofuels segment produces and sells biodiesel, as well as petrodiesel in blends with or without biodiesel. This segment also operates a granary in central Arkansas that involves in the purchase and sale of agricultural commodities, primarily soybeans, rice, and corn. This segment markets its biodiesel products by truck and rail directly to customers. FutureFuel Corp. was formerly known as Viceroy Acquisition Corporation and changed its name to FutureFuel Corp. in 2006. FutureFuel Corp. was incorporated in 2005 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

• Revenue: $803 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Mendelson, Laurans
• Industry: Aerospace and Defense
• Headquarters: Hollywood, Florida
• Year Founded: 1949
• Ticker: HEI (get quote)

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HEICO Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of aerospace, defense, and electronic related products and services in the United States and internationally. The company’s Flight Support Group segment provides jet engine and aircraft component replacement parts; thermal insulation blankets for aerospace, defense, and commercial applications; and specialty components for aerospace and industrial original equipment manufacturers, and the United States governments. This segment also distributes hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, and electro-mechanical components for the commercial, regional, and general aviation markets; and offers repair and overhaul services for jet engine and aircraft component parts, avionics, instruments, composites, and flight surfaces of commercial airlines, as well as for avionics and navigation systems, subcomponents, and other instruments utilized on military aircrafts. Its Electronic Technologies Group segment provides a range of electronic, microwave, and electro-optical products, including infrared simulation and test equipment, laser rangefinder receivers, electrical and back-up power supplies, power conversion products, underwater locator beacons, electromagnetic and radio frequency interference shielding, high power capacitor charging power supplies, amplifiers, photo detectors, amplifier modules, microwave power modules, flash lamp and laser diode drivers, arc lamp power supplies, cable assemblies, high voltage interconnection devices and wire, high voltage energy generators, high frequency power delivery systems, and high-speed interface products that link various devices, such as telemetry receivers, digital cameras, high resolution scanners, simulation systems, and test systems to any computer for the military agencies, prime defense contractors, commercial and defense satellite, and spacecraft manufacturers. HEICO Corporation was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Hollywood, Florida.

• Revenue: $621 million
• Market Cap: $1.4 billion
• CEO: Deitchle, Gerald
• Industry: Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure
• Headquarters: Huntington Beach, California
• Year Founded: 1991
• Ticker: BJRI (get quote)

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BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. owns and operates casual dining restaurants in the Unites States. The company operates restaurants under the BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, BJ’s Pizza & Grill, or BJ’s Grill names, which offer deep-dish pizzas, handcrafted beers, appetizers, entrees, pastas, sandwiches, specialty salads, desserts, non-alcoholic beverages, wine, other craft beers, and spirits. As of February 27, 2012, it owned and operated 116 restaurants comprising 10 BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery restaurants, 98 BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse restaurants, 7 BJ’s Pizza & Grill restaurants, and 1 BJ’s Grill. The company operates restaurants in California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, Florida, Ohio, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, and Washington. BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Huntington Beach, California.

• Revenue: $666 million
• Market Cap: $1.3 billion
• CEO: Gross, Robert
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Headquarters: Rochester, New York
• Year Founded: 1957
• Ticker: MNRO (get quote)

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Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. provides automotive undercar repair and tire services. The company offers a range of services on passenger cars, light trucks, and vans for brakes; mufflers and exhaust systems; and steering, drive train, suspension, and wheel alignment. It also provides other products and services, including tires and routine maintenance services, including state inspections. The company’s maintenance services include oil change, heating and cooling system flush and fill service, belt installation, fuel system service, and a transmission flush and fill service. In addition, it replaces and services batteries, starters, and alternators, as well as offers air conditioning services. As of June 25, 2011, the company had 802 company-operated stores and 3 franchised locations. It operates stores primarily under the Monro Muffler Brake & Service, Tread Quarters Discount Tire, Mr. Tire, Autotire Car Care Center, and Tire Warehouse names in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maine, Illinois, and Missouri. Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Rochester, New York.

• Revenue: $466 million
• Market Cap: $745 million
• CEO: Angle, Colin
• Industry: Household Durables
• Headquarters: Bedford, Massachusetts
• Year Founded: 1990
• Ticker: IRBT (get quote)

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iRobot Corporation engages in designing, developing, and marketing robots for the consumer, government, and industrial markets worldwide. It offers consumer products, including floor vacuuming and washing robots, and pool and gutter cleaning robots. The company also provides government and industrial products, such as ground robots comprising 510 PackBot line of small unmanned ground robots; the 310 small unmanned ground vehicle (SUGV) and XM1216 SUGV multi-purpose ground robots; the 110 FirstLook small, light, and throwable robot; and the 710 Warrior multi-purpose robot that is capable of carrying heavy payloads. In addition, its government and industrial products include maritime unmanned vehicles, such as the 1KA Seaglider, an underwater vehicle designed for oceanic missions to measure temperature, salinity, current profiles, and other data for the scientific and research community, military planners, and offshore oil engineers. The company sells its robots to consumers through chain stores and other national retailers, as well as through its on-line store; and to the U.S. military, and other government agencies. iRobot Corporation was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

• Revenue: $424 million
• Market Cap: $349 million
• CEO: Ruhlman, Robert
• Industry: Electrical Equipment
• Headquarters: Mayfield Village, Ohio
• Year Founded: 1947
• Ticker: PLPC (get quote)

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Preformed Line Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures products and systems used in the construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks for the energy, telecommunication, cable operators, and data communication industries worldwide. The company offers formed wire and related hardware products to support, protect, terminate, and secure power conductor and communication cables, and to control cable dynamics; and hardware for supporting and protecting transmission conductors, spacers, spacer-dampers, stockbridge dampers, corona suppression devices, and various compression fittings for dead-end applications. Its products also include protective closures, which include splice cases to protect fixed line communication networks, such as copper cable or fiber optic cable from moisture, environmental hazards, and other potential contaminants; and data communication cabinets that are used in high-speed data systems to hold and protect electronic equipment. In addition, the company offers plastic products, including guy markers, tree guards, fiber optic cable markers, and pedestal markers to identify power conductors, communication cables, and guy wires; and other products, such as hardware assemblies, pole line hardware, resale products, underground connectors, solar hardware systems, and urethane products, which are used by energy, renewable energy, communications, cable, and special industries. Its customers include public and private energy utilities, communication companies, cable operators, financial institutions, governmental agencies, contractors and subcontractors, distributors, and value-added resellers. The company markets its products through direct sales force and manufacturing representatives. Preformed Line Products Company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio.

• Revenue: $509 million
• Market Cap: $842 million
• CEO: Parod, Richard
• Industry: Machinery
• Headquarters: Omaha, Nebraska
• Year Founded: 1954
• Ticker: LNN (get quote)

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Lindsay Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells irrigation systems that are primarily used in the agricultural industry to increase or stabilize crop production while conserving water, energy, and labor in the United States and internationally. It also manufactures and markets various infrastructure products. The company’s Irrigation segment manufactures and markets center pivot, lateral move, and hose reel irrigation systems; irrigation controls, chemical injection systems, and remote monitoring and control systems; and water pumping stations and controls, as well as repair and replacement parts. This segment also provides mini-pivots and hose reel travelers, as well as markets pivot monitoring and control systems, which include remote telemetry and a Web or personal computer hosted data acquisition and monitoring application. Its Infrastructure segment offers Quickchange Moveable Barrier systems that help in highway reconstruction, paving and resurfacing, road widening, median and shoulder construction, and tunnel and bridge repairing; and redirective and non-redirective crash cushions, which are used to enhance highway safety at locations, such as toll booths, freeway off-ramps, medians and roadside barrier ends, bridge supports, utility poles, and other fixed roadway hazards. This segment also provides specialty barrier products that offer portability and flexibility in setting up and modifying barriers in work areas, and provide quick opening, high containment gates for use in median or roadside barriers; and road marking and road safety equipment. In addition, Infrastructure segment offers diameter steel tubing, railroad signals, and structures; and outsourced manufacturing and production services for other companies. The company serves departments of transportation, municipal transportation road agencies, roadway contractors, subcontractors, distributors, and dealers. Lindsay Corporation was founded in 1954 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

• Revenue: $340 million
• Market Cap: $1.3 billion
• CEO: Zucker, Nehemia
• Industry: Internet Software and Services
• Headquarters: Los Angeles, California
• Year Founded: 1995
• Ticker: JCOM (get quote)

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j2 Global, Inc. provides cloud services to businesses of various sizes through the Internet worldwide. It offers online fax, virtual phone systems, hosted email, email marketing, online backup, customer relationship management, and bundled suites of these services. The company markets its services principally under the eFax, eVoice, FuseMail, Campaigner, KeepItSafe, LandslideCRM, and Onebox names. It also provides software-as-a-service communication services and solutions to the business market. j2 Global, Inc. markets its services to various customers, including individuals, small to medium-sized businesses, large enterprises, and government organizations. The company was formerly known as j2 Global Communications, Inc. and changed its name to j2 Global Inc. in December 2011. j2 Global Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

• Revenue: $102 million
• Market Cap: $455 million
• CEO: McBride, Kenneth
• Industry: Internet Software and Services
• Headquarters: Los Angeles, California
• Year Founded: 1996
• Ticker: STMP (get quote)

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Stamps.com Inc. provides Internet-based postage solutions. The company offers solutions to mail and ship various mail pieces, including postcards, envelopes, flats, and packages. Its products and services include the United States Postal Service (USPS)-approved PC Postage Service that enables users to print electronic stamps directly onto envelopes, plain paper, or labels using personal computer, printer, and Internet connection; and PhotoStamps, a patented form of postage, which allows consumers to turn digital photos, designs, or images into valid United States postage. The company also sells NetStamps labels, shipping labels, other mailing labels, postage printers, scales, and other mailing and shipping-focused office supplies through its mailing and shipping supplies store, as well as offers back-end integration solutions, an electronic postage for transactions to manage the front-end process. In addition, it offers Stamps.com branded insurance enabling users to insure their mail or packages; and official USPS package insurance. Stamps.com Inc. serves individuals, small businesses, home offices, medium-size businesses, and large enterprises. The company was formerly known as StampMaster, Inc. and changed its name to Stamps.com Inc. in December 1998. Stamps.com Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

• Revenue: $683 million
• Market Cap: $3 billion
• CEO: Saltiel, Robert
• Industry: Energy Equipment and Services
• Headquarters: Houston, Texas
• Year Founded: 1968
• Ticker: ATW (get quote)

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Atwood Oceanics, Inc., an offshore drilling contractor, engages in the drilling and completion of exploratory and developmental oil and gas wells worldwide. The company owns 10 mobile offshore drilling units located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, South America, the Mediterranean Sea, west Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australia. It also has an ultra-deepwater semisubmersible, two ultra-deepwater drillships, and three high-specification jack ups under construction. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

• Revenue: $683 million
• Market Cap: $510 million
• CEO: Barry, Michael
• Industry: Chemicals
• Headquarters: Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
• Year Founded: 1918
• Ticker: KWR (get quote)

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Quaker Chemical Corporation develops, produces, and markets various formulated chemical specialty products for heavy industrial and manufacturing applications worldwide. It provides rolling lubricants for use by manufacturers of steel in the hot and cold rolling of steel, and by manufacturers of aluminum in the hot rolling of aluminum; corrosion preventives to protect metal during manufacture, storage, and shipment; and metal finishing compounds to prepare metal surfaces for special treatments, such as galvanizing and tin plating, as well as to prepare metal for further processing. The company also offers machining and grinding compounds for use in cutting, shaping, and grinding metal parts; forming compounds to facilitate the drawing and extrusion of metal products; hydraulic fluids for steel, metalworking, and other customers to operate hydraulically activated equipment; and technology for the removal of hydrogen sulfide in various industrial applications. In addition, it provides chemical milling maskants for the aerospace industry, and temporary and permanent coatings for metal and concrete products; construction products, such as flexible sealants and protective coatings for various applications; specialty greases; and die casting lubricants. Further, the company offers and markets chemical management services. It serves various industries, such as steel, aluminum, automotive, mining, tube and pipe, coatings, and construction materials industries. The company sells its products directly, as well as through distributors and agents. Quaker Chemical Corporation was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

• Revenue: $76 million
• Market Cap: $290 million
• CEO: Hays, Michael
• Industry: Healthcare Providers and Services
• Headquarters: Lincoln, Nebraska
• Year Founded: 1981
• Ticker: NRCI (get quote)

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National Research Corporation provides performance measurement and improvement services, healthcare analytics, and governance education to the healthcare industry in the United States and Canada. The company’s services include data collection, best practice identification, and delivery of value-added business intelligence. Its performance measurement and improvement services enable its clients to collect, analyze, and utilize meaningful business intelligence to improve performance relative to satisfaction, quality, cost, clinical outcomes, and other key performance metrics; Web-based electronic delivery systems provide clients the ability to review results and reports online, independently analyze data, query data sets, customize various reports, and distribute reports electronically; and business intelligence solutions provide clients with current key metric results, as well as best practice benchmarking information. The company also provides assessments, including consumer quality perceptions, product-line preferences, service use, and visit satisfaction for approximately 4,900 hospitals and health systems. In addition, it offers subscription-based governance education services to the boards of directors and medical leadership of hospital and healthcare systems. The company provides information regarding organization governance, as well as emerging healthcare issues through online content, publications, periodicals, reference books, and associated videos through its resource catalog; and produces various executive healthcare leadership conferences. It primarily serves senior care profession and home health markets. National Research Corporation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

• Revenue: $248 million
• Market Cap: $4 billion
• CEO: Jensen, Tony
• Industry: Metals and Mining
• Headquarters: Denver, Colorado
• Year Founded: 1981
• Ticker: RGLD (get quote)

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Royal Gold, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition and management of precious metal royalties. It owns royalty interests in various producing, development, evaluation, and exploration stage projects that explore for gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc metals. As of August 30, 2011, the company’s portfolio consisted of 184 properties on 6 continents, including interests in 36 producing mines and 21 development stage projects. It holds royalty interests in properties located in the United States, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Siguiri, Russia, Spain, and Tunisia. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

• Revenue: $459 million
• Market Cap: $1.2 billion
• CEO: Fredrickson, Steven
• Industry: Commercial Services and Supplies
• Headquarters: Norfolk, Virginia
• Year Founded: 1996
• Ticker: PRAA (get quote)

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Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc., a financial and business service company, engages in the purchase, collection, and management of portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables. It detects, collects, and processes unpaid and normal-course accounts receivables owed primarily to credit grantors, governments, and retailers. The company also acquires receivables of Visa, MasterCard, and other credit cards; private label credit cards; installment loans; lines of credit; bankrupt accounts; deficiency balances of various types; legal judgments, and trade payables from various debt owners, including banks, credit unions, consumer finance companies, telecommunication providers, retailers, utilities, insurance companies, medical groups, hospitals, auto finance companies, and other debt buyers. In addition, it provides fee-based services, including vehicle location, skip tracing, and collateral recovery services for auto lenders, governments, and law enforcement; revenue administration, audit, and debt discovery/recovery services for local government entities; and class action claims recovery services and related payment processing services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia.

• Revenue: $758 million
• Market Cap: $576 million
• CEO: Christensen, Christopher
• Industry: Healthcare Providers and Services
• Headquarters: Mission Viejo, California
• Year Founded: 1999
• Ticker: ENSG (get quote)

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The Ensign Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides nursing and rehabilitative care services in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington. The company offers nursing, assisted living, home health, and hospice services, including physical, occupational, and speech therapies, as well as other rehabilitative and healthcare services for long-term residents and short-stay rehabilitation patients. As of December 31, 2011, it operated 102 healthcare facilities. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Mission Viejo, California.

• Revenue: $771 million
• Market Cap: $4.4 billion
• CEO: Hadley, Philip
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Norwalk, Connecticut
• Year Founded: 1978
• Ticker: FDS (get quote)

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FactSet Research Systems Inc. provides financial and economic information to investment community worldwide. The company offers fundamental financial data on various companies, analytical applications, and client services to the portfolio managers, research and performance analysts, risk managers, marketing professionals, sell-side equity research professionals, investment bankers, and fixed income professionals. FactSet’s applications provide users access to company analysis, multicompany comparisons, industry analysis, company screening, portfolio analysis, predictive risk measurements, alphatesting, portfolio optimization and simulation, news and quotes, and tools to value and analyze fixed income securities and portfolios. The company combines commercial databases, including content regarding companies and securities from various markets into a single online platform of information and analytics. FactSet’s solutions for investment management professionals include equity analysis; offering applications for portfolio attribution, risk management, and quantitative analysis; building quant models and calculating risk; following global economic events; analyzing the debt-driven market; integrating data, such as portfolio holdings; and creating reports and presentations. The company’s solutions for banking and brokerage professionals comprise creating models and presentations; tracking market performance and headlines; providing deal analytic and corporate governance services; researching on public and private companies; auditing financials underlying SEC filings and annual reports; and providing access to reports through wireless handheld device. FactSet was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.

• Revenue: $570 million
• Market Cap: $609 million
• CEO: Hawk, Philip
• Industry: Commercial Services and Supplies
• Headquarters: Alvin, Texas
• Year Founded: 1973
• Ticker: TISI (get quote)

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Team, Inc. provides specialty maintenance and construction services for maintaining high temperature and high pressure piping systems and vessels that are utilized in heavy industries. It offers inspection and assessment services, such as inspection and evaluation of piping, piping components, and equipment; field heat treating services, including electric resistance and gas-fired combustion; leak repair services comprising on-stream repairs of leaks in pipes, valves, flanges, and other parts of piping systems and related equipment; and fugitive volatile organic chemical emission leak detection services consisting of identification, monitoring, data management, and reporting. The company also provides hot tapping services, such as hot tapping, Line-stop, and Freeze-stop services; field machining services, including the use of portable machining equipment to repair or modify machinery, equipment, vessels, and piping systems, as well as flange facing, pipe cutting, line boring, journal turning, drilling, and milling services; and technical bolting services comprising the use of hydraulic or pneumatic equipment with bolt tightening techniques for leak-free connections, plant maintenance, and expansion projects, as well as bolt disassembly and hot bolting services. In addition, it offers field valve repair services consisting of on-site repairs to manual and control valves, and pressure and safety relief valves, as well as specialty valve actuator diagnostics and repair. The company markets its services to companies in a various heavy industries, which include the petrochemical, refining, power, pipeline, steel, pulp and paper, and shipbuilding industries, as well as to municipalities, original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and engineering and construction firms. It operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Alvin, Texas.

• Revenue: $204 million
• Market Cap: $674 million
• CEO: Carlson, Allen
• Industry: Machinery
• Headquarters: Sarasota, Florida
• Year Founded: 1970
• Ticker: SNHY (get quote)

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Sun Hydraulics Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves and manifolds used in hydraulic systems to industrial and mobile customers worldwide. The company offers various screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves, including electrically actuated and non-electrically actuated products; manifolds that are machined to create threaded cavities and channels and channels; integrated fluid power packages, which consist of multiple cartridge valves assembled into a custom designed manifold; and electronic controllers that manage the function of electrically actuated valves. Its screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves and manifolds control force, speed, and motion as integral components in fluid power systems, and are used in construction, agricultural, mining, and fire and rescue and other utility equipment, as well as in automation machinery, presses, plastics machinery. The company sells its products primarily through independent fluid power distributors, as well as directly to other companies in the hydraulics industry and original equipment manufacturers. Sun Hydraulics Corporation was founded in 1970 and is based in Sarasota, Florida.

• Revenue: $24 million
• Market Cap: $151 million
• CEO: Parrish, O.
• Industry: Personal Products
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
• Year Founded: 1896
• Ticker: FHCO (get quote)

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The Female Health Company manufactures, markets, and sells consumer health care products in the United States and internationally. It offers the FC2 female condom, which provides dual protection against unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. The Female Health Company sells its products to public health clinics, as well as to not-for-profit organizations. It markets its product directly, as well as through distribution agreements and other arrangements with commercial partners, which market directly to consumers in various countries. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

• Revenue: $173 million
• Market Cap: $625 million
• CEO: Douglas, J.
• Industry: Health Care Technology
• Headquarters: Mobile, Alabama
• Year Founded: 1979
• Ticker: CPSI (get quote)

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Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., a healthcare information technology company, designs, develops, markets, installs, and supports computerized information technology systems to small and midsize hospitals in the United States. Its enterprise-wide system automates the management of clinical and financial data across the primary functional areas of a hospital. The company offers services that enable customers to outsource certain data-related business processes in the areas of clinical care, revenue cycle management, cost control, and regulatory compliance. Its software products include Patient Management, which enables a hospital to identify a patient at any point in the healthcare delivery system, and to collect and maintain patient information through the process of patient care; Financial Accounting that provides various business office applications to track and coordinate information needed for managerial decision-making; and Clinical, which automates record keeping and reporting for a range of clinical functions, such as laboratory, radiology, physical therapy, respiratory care, and pharmacy. The company’s software products also comprise Patient Care that allows hospitals to create computerized patient files; and Enterprise Applications, which provide software applications that support its products for use in various areas of the hospital. In addition, it offers support and maintenance services; business management services, including electronic billing, statement processing, accounts receivable management, payroll processing, contract management, and insurance services; and system implementation and training services, such as conversion and training. Further, the company sells computer hardware, peripherals, forms, and office supplies. It serves acute care community hospitals; and small specialty hospitals that focus on medical areas, such as surgery, rehabilitation, and psychiatry. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.

• Revenue: $420 million
• Market Cap: $688 million
• CEO: Lubell, Jeffrey
• Industry: Textiles, Apparel and Luxury Goods
• Headquarters: Vernon, California
• Year Founded: 2002
• Ticker: TRLG (get quote)

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True Religion Apparel, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells apparel in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America. It offers fashion jeans and related sportswear apparel. The company provides various products for men, women, and children, including denim jeans; corduroy pants and jackets; cotton, twill, linen, and velvet pants and jackets; fleece sweat suits and hooded sweatshirts; sweaters; skirts; knit shirts; T-shirts; shorts; and sportswear. It sells apparel under the True Religion Brand Jeans brand name. The company sells its products through retail stores, wholesale sales teams, distributors, sales agents, boutiques, department stores, and specialty retailers, as well as through its Web site, truereligionbrandjeans.com. It also licenses its trademarks to third parties for manufacturing, marketing, and distributing various products. As of December 31, 2011, the company owned and operated 109 branded retail stores in the United States, 3 retail stores in Canada, 3 retail stores in Japan, 5 retail stores in the United Kingdom, 4 retail stores in Germany, and 1 retail store in the Netherlands. True Religion Apparel, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Vernon, California.

• Revenue: $361 million
• Market Cap: $862 million
• CEO: Kapoor, Rohit
• Industry: IT Services
• Headquarters: New York, New York
• Year Founded: 1999
• Ticker: EXLS (get quote)

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Exlservice Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides outsourcing and transformation services primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its outsourcing services include claims processing, premium and benefit administration, agency management, account reconciliation, policy research, underwriting support, new business processing, policy servicing, trades/sub-account transactions, add-on processing, premium audit, billing and collection, and customer services in insurance and healthcare sector; back-office processing for customer operations, metering-related services and billing, debt recovery operations, imbalance management, and account management services in utilities sector; and servicing and processing various banking products, including residential mortgage lending, retail banking, credit cards, consumer finance, commercial lending, and investment management in banking and financial services sector. The company’s outsourcing services also comprise processing transactions, including supply chain management, warehousing, transloading, transportation management, and international logistics services in transportation and logistics sector; managing and improving operational, financial, and analytical functions for travel management companies; and finance and accounting services, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, inter-company reconciliations, financial and statutory reporting, treasury management, and tax compliance. In addition, it offers transformation services consisting of decision analytics services, including data filtering, organization and synthesis, management information system reporting, trend and variance analysis, statistical and econometric modeling, and economic and financial markets research; finance transformation services; and operations and process excellence services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

• Revenue: $396 million
• Market Cap: $284 million
• CEO: Boldt, James
• Industry: IT Services
• Headquarters: Buffalo, New York
• Year Founded: 1966
• Ticker: CTGX (get quote)

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Computer Task Group, Incorporated operates as an information technology (IT) solutions and staffing company primarily in North America and Europe. The company’s IT solutions comprise selection and implementation of packaged software, as well as the design, development, testing, and integration of new systems; development and implementation of customized software and solutions; medical fraud, waste, and abuse detection and reduction; medical care and disease management; and group insurance underwriting risk assessment. Its IT solutions also consist of implementing electronic medical records; assisting in the start-up and development of health information exchanges; and providing transitional application management services, such as outsourcing support of single or multiple applications and help desk functions. The company’s IT staffing solutions include recruiting, retaining, and managing IT talent primarily for technology service providers and companies with multiple locations. It serves technology service providers, healthcare, energy, and financial services markets. Computer Task Group, Incorporated was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

• Revenue: $292 million
• Market Cap: $884 million
• CEO: Rossi, Dino
• Industry: Chemicals
• Headquarters: New Hampton, New York
• Year Founded: 1967
• Ticker: BCPC (get quote)

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Balchem Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells specialty performance ingredients and products for the food, nutritional, feed, pharmaceutical, and medical sterilization industries in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Specialty Products; Food, Pharma & Nutrition; and Animal Nutrition & Health. The Specialty Products segment offers ethylene oxide primarily for use in the health care industry; and single use canisters with ethylene oxide for use in medical device sterilization. It also sells propylene oxide as a fumigant to aid in the control of insects and microbiological spoilage; to reduce bacterial and mold contamination; to customers seeking smaller quantities and whose requirements include utilization in various chemical synthesis applications; and to make paints durable, as well as for manufacturing specialty starches and textile coatings. The Food, Pharma & Nutrition segment provides microencapsulation solutions for applications in baked goods, refrigerated and frozen dough systems, processed meats, seasoning blends, confections, and nutritional supplements. It also markets human grade choline nutrient products for wellness applications. In addition, this segment offers a novel smooth dissolve excipient technology primarily used in chewable tablets or stick-pack dosage forms for nutritional and pharmaceutical products. The Animal Nutrition & Health segment offers REASHURE Choline, an encapsulated choline product; NITROSHURE, an encapsulated urea supplement; NIASHURE, a microencapsulated niacin product for dairy cows; and chelated mineral supplements. It also provides AMINOSHURE-L, rumen-protected lysine for use in dairy rations; basic choline chloride, a nutrient for animal health; and methylamines. The company sells its products through its sales force, independent distributors, and sales agents. Balchem Corporation was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in New Hampton, New York.

• Revenue: $544 million
• Market Cap: $1.1 billion
• CEO: Wenner, David
• Industry: Food Products
• Headquarters: Parsippany, New Jersey
• Year Founded: 1996
• Ticker: BGS (get quote)

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B&G Foods, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of shelf-stable foods in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It offers shelf-stable Mexican food, including taco shells, tortillas, seasonings, dinner kits, taco sauces, peppers, refried beans, salsas, and related food products; maple syrups, gourmet salad dressings, sugar free syrups, marinades, fruit syrups, confections, pancake mixes, and organic products; hot cereals; fruit-based spreads and jarred wet spices, such as chopped garlic and oregano; and enchilada sauce, chili sauce, and various pepper products. The company also provides shelf-stable pickles, peppers, relishes, olives, and other related specialty items; meat spreads, including deviled ham, white-meat chicken, white-meat turkey, roast beef, and liverwurst; baked beans and brown bread; flavor enhancers used on beef, poultry, fish, and vegetables; a line of pasta sauces, seasonings, cooking stocks, mustards, salsas, pepper sauces, dip mixes, and cooking sprays; and pizza and spaghetti sauces, whole and crushed tomatoes, and tomato puree. In addition, it offers canned beans, such as kidney, chili, and other beans; calorie free sugar substitutes; vinegars and cooking wines for use in the preparation of salad dressings, as well as in various recipe applications; static elimination sprays; sprinkles in butter and cheese flavors; mild and full-flavored molasses products, and blackstrap molasses products; and maple-flavored syrups. B&G Foods, Inc. distributes its products through a network of independent brokers and distributors to supermarkets, mass merchants, warehouse clubs, wholesalers, food service distributors and direct accounts, specialty food distributors, military commissaries, and non-food outlets. The company was formerly known as B&G Foods Holdings Corp. and changed its name to B&G Foods, Inc. in October 2004. B&G Foods, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey.

• Revenue: $634 million
• Market Cap: $559 million
• CEO: Belcher, Eric
• Industry: Commercial Services and Supplies
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
• Year Founded: 2001
• Ticker: INWK (get quote)

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InnerWorkings, Inc. provides print management and promotional solutions to corporate clients in the United States and internationally. The company procures, manages, and delivers printed materials and promotional products. Its proprietary software applications and database, PPM4, creates an integrated solution that stores, analyzes, and tracks the production capabilities of the supplier network, as well as quotes and prices data for print jobs. The company’s principal products comprise direct mail pieces, brochures, catalogues, point-of-purchase, displays, magazines, packaging, store fixtures, CDs/DVDs, promotional products annual reports, envelopes, labels, calendars, folders, gift cards, signage, and posters. Its products also include newsletters, billboards, playing cards, binders, apparel, games, stationery, business and automobile wraps, postcards, stickers, bags, magnets, warehousing, pick and pack, distribution, and print on demand products. The company offers a range of fulfillment and logistics services, such as kitting and assembly, inventory management, and pre-sorting postage. In addition, it provides creative services, including copywriting, graphics and Website design, identity work, and marketing collateral development services, as well as pre-media services comprising image and print-ready page processing and proofing capabilities. InnerWorkings, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

• Revenue: $446 million
• Market Cap: $650 million
• CEO: Dingus, David
• Industry: Electrical Equipment
• Headquarters: Fort Worth, Texas
• Year Founded: 1956
• Ticker: AZZ (get quote)

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AZZ incorporated manufactures electrical equipment and components for power generation, transmission and distribution, and industrial markets primarily in the United States and Canada. It operates in two segments, Electrical and Industrial Products, and Galvanizing Services. The Electrical and Industrial Products segment produces specialty electrical products for the distribution of electrical power to and from generators, transformers, switching devices, and other electrical configurations. It also provides industrial lighting and tubular products for petro-chemical, industrial, petroleum, and food processing industries. This segment sells its products through manufacturers’ representatives, distributors, agents, and internal sales force. The Galvanizing Services segment provides hot dip galvanizing to the steel fabrication industry. This segment serves fabricators or manufacturers that provide services to electrical and telecommunications, bridge and highway, petrochemical, and industrial markets, as well as original equipment manufacturers. As of February 28, 2011, this segment operated 33 hot dip-galvanizing facilities located throughout the south, midwest, east coast, and southwest United States. AZZ incorporated was founded in 1956 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

• Revenue: $527 million
• Market Cap: $1.5 billion
• CEO: Kramer, Francis
• Industry: Electrical Equipment
• Headquarters: Saxonburg, Pennsylvania
• Year Founded: 1971
• Ticker: IIVI (get quote)

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II-VI Incorporated develops, refines, manufactures, and markets materials and derivative precision components and products worldwide. The company offers various precision infrared optical components, such as lenses, output couplers, windows, and mirrors for use in CO2 lasers; one micron laser components, including modular laser processing heads for fiber lasers, YAG lasers, and other one-micron laser systems; and beam delivery systems. It also provides near-infrared optics comprising waveplates, polarizers, lenses, prisms, and mirrors for visible and near-infrared applications; coated windows, which are used as debris shields in the industrial and medical laser aftermarkets; fiber and micro optics, optical components and functional modules, and photonic crystal parts for optical communications; optical and photonic crystal parts for instrumentation and laser applications; diode pumped solid-state laser devices for optical instruments, display, and biotechnology; and components for UV filters used in early warning missile detection. In addition, it offers military infrared optics, including missile domes, electro-optical windows and subassemblies, imaging lenses, and other components; visible and crystalline materials, such as calcium and barium fluoride, and fused silica; material processing and refinement products, such as selenium and tellurium metals, and chemicals; thermoelectric modules (TEMs) comprising single-stage TEMs, micro TEMs, multi-stage TEMs, planar multi-stage TEMs, extended life thermocyclers, thermoelectric thermal reference sources, power generators, and thermoelectric assemblies for use in defense, medical equipment, industrial, and commercial applications; and silicon carbide products consisting of 6H-SiC semi-insulating and 4H-SiC conducting poly-types. The company markets its products through a direct sales force, and representatives and distributors. II-VI Incorporated was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania.

• Revenue: $889 million
• Market Cap: $1.4 billion
• CEO: McCartney, Daniel
• Industry: Commercial Services and Supplies
• Headquarters: Bensalem, Pennsylvania
• Year Founded: 1976
• Ticker: HCSG (get quote)

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Healthcare Services Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides housekeeping, laundry, linen, facility maintenance, and dietary services to nursing homes, retirement complexes, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals in the United States. It operates in two segments, Housekeeping and Dietary. The Housekeeping segment offers cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing of patient rooms and common areas of client’s facility, as well as laundering and processing the personal clothing belonging to the facility’s patients. This segment also engages in laundering and processing bed linens, uniforms, and other assorted linen items utilized by a client facility; sells laundry installations; and provides maintenance services, including repair and maintenance of laundry equipment, plumbing, and electrical systems, as well as carpentry and painting services. The Dietary segment is involved in food purchasing; meal preparation; and the provision of professional dietician consulting services, which include the development of a menu that meets the patient’s dietary needs. As of December 31, 2011, the company provided its services to approximately 2,900 facilities in 47 states. Healthcare Services Group, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

• Revenue: $992 million
• Market Cap: $710 million
• CEO: Liang, Charles
• Industry: Computers and Peripherals
• Headquarters: San Jose, California
• Year Founded: 1993
• Ticker: SMCI (get quote)

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Super Micro Computer, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and provides high performance server solutions based on modular and open-standard architecture. The company offers a range of rackmount, workstation, storage, graphic processing unit, and blade server systems, as well as subsystems and accessories used by distributors, original equipment manufacturers, and end customers to assemble server systems. It provides server options with single, dual, and quad CPU capability supporting Intel Pentium and Xeon multi-core architectures; and server systems based on AMD dual and quad Opteron. The company also offers server subsystems and accessories, including server boards, and chassis and power supplies. In addition, it sells other system accessories, such as microprocessors, memory, and disc drives. The company sells its server systems, and server subsystems and accessories through distributors, including value added resellers, system integrators, and original equipment manufacturers, as well as through its direct sales force primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Super Micro Computer, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

• Revenue: $423 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Burbach, Gerhard
• Industry: Healthcare Equipment and Supplies
• Headquarters: Pleasanton, California
• Year Founded: 1976
• Ticker: THOR (get quote)

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Thoratec Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of proprietary medical devices used for circulatory support. The company’s primary product lines include ventricular assist devices, such as HeartMate II, an implantable left ventricular assist device consisting of a rotary blood pump to provide intermediate and long-term mechanical circulatory support (MCS); and HeartMate XVE, an implantable and pulsatile left ventricular assist device for intermediate and longer-term MCS. Its ventricular assist devices also comprise Paracorporeal Ventricular Assist Device, an external pulsatile ventricular assist device, which provides left, right, and biventricular MCS approved for bridge-to-transplantation (BTT), including home discharge, and post-cardiotomy myocardial recovery; and Implantable Ventricular Assist Device, an implantable and pulsatile ventricular assist device designed to provide left, right, and biventricular MCS approved for BTT comprising home discharge, and post-cardiotomy myocardial recovery. The company also provides CentriMag, an extracorporeal full-flow acute surgical support platform that offers support up to 30 days for cardiac and respiratory failure. In addition, it offers PediMag and PediVAS extracorporeal full-flow acute surgical support platforms designed to provide acute surgical support to pediatric patients. The company sells its products through direct sales force in the United States, as well as through a network of distributors internationally. Thoratec Corporation was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

• Revenue: $272 million
• Market Cap: $646 million
• CEO: Johnston, Paul
• Industry: Professional Services
• Headquarters: Menlo Park, California
• Year Founded: 1967
• Ticker: EXPO (get quote)

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Exponent, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides engineering and scientific consulting services worldwide. Its services include analysis of products, people, property, processes, and finances related to litigation, product recall, regulatory compliance, research, development, and design. The company offers approximately 90 different technical disciplines to solve complicated issues facing industry and government. It offers services in the areas of biomechanics, biomedical engineering, buildings and structures, civil engineering, construction consulting, defense technology development, ecological and biological sciences, electrical engineering and computer science, engineering management consulting, environmental and earth sciences, health sciences, human factors, industrial structures, materials and corrosion engineering, mechanical engineering, polymer science and materials chemistry, statistical and data sciences, thermal sciences, and vehicle analysis. The company provides its services through a team of scientists, physicians, engineers, and business and regulatory consultants. It serves clients in automotive, aviation, chemical, construction, consumer products, energy, government, health, insurance, manufacturing, and technology sectors. The company was formerly known as The Failure Group, Inc. and changed its name to Exponent, Inc. in 1998. Exponent, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

• Revenue: $669 million
• Market Cap: $198 million
• CEO: Barnhill, Robert
• Industry: Communications Equipment
• Headquarters: Hunt Valley, Maryland
• Year Founded: 1982
• Ticker: TESS (get quote)

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TESSCO Technologies Incorporated provides products and value chain solutions to support the construction, operation, and use of mobility and data wireless systems primarily in the United States. The company’s Network Infrastructure segment offers base station antennas, cable and transmission lines, fixed and mobile broadband equipment, wireless local area network products, wireless networking, filtering systems, small towers, lightning protection devices, connectors, security and surveillance products, power systems, and miscellaneous hardware products that are used to build, repair, and upgrade wireless telecommunications, computing, and Internet networks. This segment also provides various services, including connector installation, custom jumper assembly, filter product tuning, site kitting, logistics integration, and wireless network training. It’s Mobile Devices and Accessory segment offers cellular phone and data device accessories comprising replacement batteries, cases, speakers, mobile amplifiers, power supplies, headsets, mounts, car antennas, music accessories, and data and memory cards, as well as two-way radios and related accessories. The company’s Installation, Test, and Maintenance segment provides analysis equipments; and various frequency, voltage, and power-measuring devices, as well as assortment of tools, hardware, GPS, safety and replacement, and component parts and supplies. This segment’s products are used to install, tune, maintain, and repair wireless communications equipment. The company serves carrier and public network operators, tower owners, program managers, contractors and integrators, wireless Internet service providers, industrial and enterprise self-maintained users, governments, manufacturers, repair centers, retailers, dealers, and value-added resellers. TESSCO Technologies Incorporated was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

• Revenue: $697 million
• Market Cap: $937 million
• CEO: Evans, Robert
• Industry: Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure
• Headquarters: Louisville, Kentucky
• Year Founded: 1928
• Ticker: CHDN (get quote)

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Churchill Downs Incorporated engages in the pari-mutuel horseracing, casino gaming, and entertainment businesses. It offers gaming products through its casinos in Mississippi; and slot and video poker operations in Louisiana and Florida. The company manages its operations through Churchill Downs Racetrack, a thoroughbred racing operation in Louisville, Kentucky; Arlington Park Racecourse, a thoroughbred racing operation in Arlington Heights with 11 off-track betting (OTB) facilities in Illinois; Calder Race Course, a thoroughbred racing operation in Miami Gardens, Florida; and Fair Grounds Race Course, a thoroughbred racing operation in New Orleans along with 11 OTBs in Louisiana. It also operates online business through TwinSpires, an advance deposit wagering (ADW) platform; Fair Grounds Account Wagering, an ADW business; Bloodstock Research Information Services, a data service provider for the equine industry; and HRTV, LLC, a horseracing television channel. In addition, the company operates Harlow’s Casino Resort & Hotel, a casino, hotel, and entertainment center that includes approximately 900 slot machines, 15 table games, a poker room, a 105-room attached hotel, and dining facilities in Greenville, Mississippi; Calder Casino, a slot facility, which operates approximately 1,200 slot machines, including a poker room operated under the Studz Poker Club name in Florida; Fair Grounds Slots, a slot facility that operates approximately 600 slot machines in Louisiana; and Video Services, LLC, which owns and operates approximately 700 video poker machines in Louisiana. Further, it holds investments in United Tote Company and United Tote Canada that manufactures and operates pari-mutuel wagering systems for racetracks; and Churchill Downs Simulcast Productions, LLC, which provides television production to the racing industry. Churchill Downs Incorporated was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

• Revenue: $359 million
• Market Cap: $663 million
• CEO: Krakauer, Andrew
• Industry: Healthcare Equipment and Supplies
• Headquarters: Little Falls, New Jersey
• Year Founded: 1963
• Ticker: CMN (get quote)

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Cantel Medical Corp. provides infection prevention and control products and services in the healthcare market worldwide. Its Endoscopy segment offers medical device reprocessing systems, disinfectants, detergents, and other supplies used to disinfect flexible endoscopes and other approved devices; and disposable infection control products for cleaning and sterilizing various reusable components used in gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures. The company’s Water Purification and Filtration segment provides water purification equipment and services, filtration and separation products, and disinfectants for the medical, pharmaceutical, biotech, beverage, and commercial industrial markets. Its Healthcare Disposables segment offers single-use, infection prevention, and control products, including face masks, sterilization pouches, towels and bibs, tray covers, saliva ejectors, germicidal wipes, plastic cups, and disinfectants for the dental market; and mail-in service and in-office spore test kits for healthcare professionals to verify the performance of their sterilizers. The company’s Dialysis segment provides medical device reprocessing systems, sterilants/disinfectants, dialysate concentrates, and other supplies for renal dialysis. Its Therapeutic Filtration segment offers hollow fiber membrane filtration and separation technologies for medical applications. The company’s Specialty Packaging segment provides specialty packaging and thermal control products, as well as related compliance training, for the transport of infectious and biological specimens and thermally sensitive pharmaceutical, medical, and other products. Its Chemistries segment offers sterilants, disinfectants, detergents, and decontamination services used in various applications for infection prevention and control. The company sells its products through direct distribution network, as well as third-party distributors. Cantel Medical Corp. was founded in 1963 and is based in Little Falls, New Jersey.

• Revenue: $936 million
• Market Cap: $3 billion
• CEO: Fischer, Jost
• Industry: Healthcare Equipment and Supplies
• Headquarters: Long Island City, New York
• Year Founded: 1882
• Ticker: SIRO (get quote)

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Sirona Dental Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets dental equipment for dentists worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Dental (CAD/CAM) Systems, Imaging Systems, Treatment Centers, and Instruments. The Dental (CAD/CAM) Systems segment addresses the market for various dental restorations, such as inlays, onlays, veneers, crowns, bridges, copings, and bridge frameworks made from ceramic, metal, or composite blocks. This segment offers the CEramic REConstruction, an in-office application that enables dentists to produce restorations from ceramic material and insert them into the patient’s mouth during a single appointment; the inLab restoration fabrication systems and the extra-oral inEos scanners for dental laboratories; and the central manufacturing services for copings and bridge-frameworks. The Imaging Systems segment offers a range of film-based and digital equipments for diagnostic imaging in the dental practice. This segment’s products comprise imaging systems for 2D and 3D, panoramic, and intra-oral applications. The Treatment Centers segment offers a range of products from basic dentist chairs to chair-based units with integrated diagnostic, hygiene, and ergonomic functionalities, as well as specialist centers used in preventative treatment and for training purposes. The Instruments segment provides handheld and power-operated handpieces for cavity preparation, endodontics, periodontology, and prophylaxis, as well as comprises multi function tips, supply and suction hoses, and care and hygiene systems for instrument preparation. The company distributes its products to dental practices, clinics, and laboratories through an international network of distributors. Sirona Dental Systems, Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Long Island City, New York.

• Revenue: $118 million
• Market Cap: $425 million
• CEO: Battat, David
• Industry: Healthcare Equipment and Supplies
• Headquarters: Allen, Texas
• Year Founded: 1944
• Ticker: ATRI (get quote)

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Atrion Corporation develops and manufactures ophthalmology, cardiovascular, and fluid delivery devices primarily for medical applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s ophthalmic products comprise soft contact lens storage and disinfection cases; and LacriCATH line of balloon catheters used in the treatment of nasolacrimal duct obstruction in children and adults. Its cardiovascular products include MPS2 Myocardial Protection System that delivers essential fluids and medications to the heart during open-heart surgery; cardiac surgery vacuum relief valves; Retract-O-Tape silicone vessel loops for retracting and occluding vessels in minimally invasive surgical procedures; inflation devices for balloon catheter dilation, stent deployment, and fluid dispensing; and Clean-Cut rotating aortic punch and PerfectCut Aortotomy System, which are used in heart bypass surgery. The company’s fluid delivery products comprise luer syringe check valves and one-way valves; tubing clamps; and specialized intravenous sets for use in anesthesia and oncology applications. It also manufactures inflation systems and valves used in marine and aviation safety products; one-way and two-way pressure relief valves for use on electronics cases, munitions cases, pressure vessels, transportation container cases, escape slides, and other medical and non-medical applications; ACTester product line used to measure the activated clotting time of blood; and a line of products for safe needle and scalpel blade containment. In addition, the company owns and maintains a 22-mile high-pressure steel pipeline in north Alabama that is leased to an industrial gas producer that transports gaseous oxygen to its customers. Atrion Corporation sells its products to physicians, hospitals, clinics, and other treatment centers, as well as other equipment manufacturers through its sales force. The company was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Allen, Texas.

• Revenue: $717 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Stanton, Thomas
• Industry: Communications Equipment
• Headquarters: Huntsville, Alabama
• Year Founded: 1985
• Ticker: ADTN (get quote)

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ADTRAN, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and services communications network solutions that enable voice, data, video, and Internet communications across wireline and wireless networks worldwide. Its Carrier Networks division provides fiber and copper-based solutions for service providers to deliver voice, data, and video services to customers’ premises and mobile network cell sites. Its products enable services, such as voice, VoIP, IP television, RF video, high speed Internet access, and data services based upon Ethernet, frame relay, TDM, and ATM networks, connecting the network with user components, such as switches, routers, gateways, integrated access devices (IADs), private branch exchanges (PBXs), and telephone key systems. This division serves local exchange carriers, independent operating companies, competitive local exchange carriers, utilities, municipalities, cable MSOs, international carriers, and wireless service providers. The company’s Enterprise Networks division provides Internetworking solutions for enterprise customers to construct voice, data, and video networks within their sites or among distributed sites. It offers Internetworking solutions, including IP business gateways, optical network terminals, virtual wireless LAN products, multi-service routers, managed Ethernet switches, IP PBX products, IP phone products, unified communications and unified threat management solutions, and carrier Ethernet network terminating equipment, as well as provides IADs. This division serves the retail, food service, healthcare, finance, government, education, manufacturing, military, transportation, hospitality, and energy/utility markets. ADTRAN, Inc. also provides digital data service and integrated services digital network products, high bit-rate digital subscriber line products, T1/E1/T3, channel service units/data service units, and fixed wireless products. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.

• Revenue: $371 million
• Market Cap: $1.5 billion
• CEO: Chardon, Marc
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Charleston, South Carolina
• Year Founded: 1981
• Ticker: BLKB (get quote)

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Blackbaud, Inc. provides software and related services for nonprofit organizations. The company offers The Raiser’s Edge, a software application to manage constituent relationship management (CRM) and fundraising activity; Blackbaud CRM, a Web-based CRM solution that addresses the needs of mid-size, large, and federated chapter based nonprofit organizations; eTapestry, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) donor management and fundraising solution for smaller nonprofits; Blackbaud NetCommunity, an Internet marketing and communications tool to build interactive Websites and manage email marketing campaigns; Sphere eMarketing, a SaaS that provides applications to manage e-marketing, communications, programs, services, and online fundraising; Everyday Hero, an event-based online fundraising solution; and BlackbaudNow for developing an online presence and accepting online donations. It also provides The Financial Edge, an accounting application; The Education Edge, a student information management system; Blackbaud’s Student Information System, which links student information across various campus offices, as well as organizes the admissions and registrar’s processes; and Blackbaud for Small Schools, a SaaS solution that helps schools with their registration process, as well as gives parents, students, and faculty an online access to school information. In addition, the company offers The Patron Edge, a ticketing management solution; Blackbaud Direct Marketing that helps in managing direct marketing campaigns with various media and channels; Sphere Friends Asking Friends software product to launch and manage online event fundraising Websites; and Altru, a SaaS solution that helps general admissions arts and cultural organizations in their operation. Further, it provides consulting and education, analytics, maintenance, and payment processing services. Blackbaud, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.

• Revenue: $237 million
• Market Cap: $271 million
• CEO: Reading, Christopher
• Industry: Healthcare Providers and Services
• Headquarters: Houston, Texas
• Year Founded: 1990
• Ticker: USPH (get quote)

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U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinics in the United States. Its clinics provide pre-and-post operative care and treatment for orthopedic-related disorders, sports-related injuries, preventative care, rehabilitation of injured workers, and neurological-related injuries. The company also offers physician services to third parties; and operates clinics, which specialize in the outpatient, non-surgical treatment of osteo arthritis degenerative joint disease and other musculoskeletal conditions. As of December 31, 2011, it operated 416 clinics in 42 states; and managed 15 physical therapy facilities for third parties, including physicians. The company focuses its marketing efforts on physicians comprising orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, physiatrists, internal medicine physicians, podiatrists, occupational medicine physicians, and general practitioners. U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Houston, Texas.

• Revenue: $682 million
• Market Cap: $704 million
• CEO: Lynch, Robert
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Headquarters: Toano, Virginia
• Year Founded: 1994
• Ticker: LL (get quote)

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Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. operates as a multi-channel specialty retailer of hardwood flooring, and hardwood flooring enhancements and accessories in the United States. The company offers an assortment of wood flooring products comprising prefinished domestic and exotic hardwoods, engineered hardwoods, unfinished hardwoods, bamboos, cork products, and laminates, as well as resilient flooring products. It also provides an assortment of flooring enhancements and installation accessories, including moldings, noise-reducing under lays, and adhesives. The company offers its products primarily under its private label brands, including the Bellawood and Lumber Liquidators. It primarily serves homeowners through integrated sales channels, such as stores, a call center, and a catalog, as well as through its Website, lumberliquidators.com. As of December 31, 2011, the company operated 256 stores in 46 states of the United States and 7 stores in Canada. Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Toano, Virginia.

• Revenue: $169 million
• Market Cap: $654 million
• CEO: Cohen, Marc
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Bethesda, Maryland
• Year Founded: 1986
• Ticker: OPNT (get quote)

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OPNET Technologies, Inc. provides application and network performance management solutions in the United States and internationally. It offers AppCapacity Xpert to provide capacity planning for servers; AppInternals Xpert to extract performance and forensic data; AppMapper Xpert to produce run-time application maps; AppResponse Xpert to monitor and analyze end-user experience for various users and transactions; AppSQL Xpert to track database usage; AppTelemetry Xpert to capture performance information; and AppTransaction Xpert to analyze individual transactions. The company also provides IT Guru Network Planner and SP Guru Network Planner for network capacity planning and design optimization, and validation of network configuration changes; IT Sentinel that offers network configuration integrity and security auditing, and proactive change validation; nCompass for enterprises and service providers for visibility of network topology, traffic, and status; and Virtual Network Environment Server to maintain real-time data model of the production IT network. In addition, it offers SP Guru Transport Planner for designing optical networks; SP Sentinel to offer network configuration integrity and security auditing, and proactive change validation; and AppResponse Xpert to ensure application performance; OPNET Modeler, a network modeling and simulation product; Modeler Wireless Suite for wireless network R&D organizations; and Modeler Wireless Suite for defense. Further, the company develops and sells various software modules; and offers consulting services, product updates, technical support and services, and training services. OPNET Technologies, Inc. sells its products through direct sales force, as well as through distributors and value-added resellers. Its customers include corporate enterprises, government and defense agencies, network service providers, and network equipment manufacturers. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

• Revenue: $556 million
• Market Cap: $1.1 billion
• CEO: Brooks, Richard
• Industry: Specialty Retail
• Headquarters: Everett, Washington
• Year Founded: 1978
• Ticker: ZUMZ (get quote)

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Zumiez Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of action sports related apparel, footwear, equipment, and accessories. Its apparel products include tops, bottoms, outerwear, caps, bags and backpacks, belts, jewelry, and sunglasses; and footwear products comprise action sports related athletic shoes and sandals. The company also offers various equipment products or hardgoods, such as skateboards, snowboards, and boots and bindings; and miscellaneous novelties. Its stores cater to young men and women between the ages of 12 and 24 focusing on sport lifestyle centered on activities that comprise skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, bicycle motocross, and motocross. The company also sells its products online. As of January 28, 2012, it operated 434 stores in the United States and 10 stores in Canada under the Zumiez brand name. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Everett, Washington.

• Revenue: $179 million
• Market Cap: $598 million
• CEO: Melland, Scot
• Industry: Internet Software and Services
• Headquarters: New York, New York
• Year Founded: 1991
• Ticker: DHX (get quote)

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Dice Holdings, Inc. provides specialized career Websites and career fairs for professional communities. The company targets employment categories where there is a long-term scarcity of qualified professionals relative to market demand. Its career Websites serve as online marketplaces where employers and recruiters find and recruit prospective employees, and where professionals find relevant job opportunities and information to further their careers. The company operates in four segments: Tech and Clearance, Finance, Energy, and Other. The Tech and Clearance segment operates Dice.com, a recruiting and career development Website for technology and engineering professionals in the United States; and ClearanceJobs.com, an Internet-based career network to matching security-cleared professionals with hiring companies searching for employees. The Finance segment operates eFinancialCareers.com, a recruiting and career development Website for financial market professionals and financial services industry worldwide. The Energy segment operates Rigzone.com, a career Website that delivers online content, data, advertising, and career services for the oil and gas industry. The Other segment produces and hosts career fairs and open houses, which focus primarily on technology, energy, and security-cleared candidates in the United States; and operates AllHealthcareJobs.com, a career Website for matching healthcare professionals with available career opportunities. The company serves small, mid-sized, and large direct employers and staffing companies, recruiting agencies, and consulting firms. Dice Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

• Revenue: $946 million
• Market Cap: $4.1 billion
• CEO: Yeaman, Kevin
• Industry: Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components
• Headquarters: San Francisco, California
• Year Founded: 1965
• Ticker: DLB (get quote)

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Dolby Laboratories, Inc. provides products, services, and technologies for the entertainment industry worldwide. It designs and manufactures video and audio products for film production, cinema, and television broadcast industries; and provides services to support film production, television broadcast, and music production. The company is involved in licensing technologies in signal processing systems that enhance sound quality or enable surround sound in movie soundtracks, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, personal computers, digital televisions, mobile devices, video games, satellite and cable broadcasts, and online streaming; and developing technologies for mobile devices for 3D, digital cinema, post-production, and LED backlit LCD televisions. It also offers traditional cinema processors, which are used to read, decode, and play back a film’s soundtrack and calibrate the sound system in a movie theater; digital cinema products for digital cinema encoding, distribution, and playback; digital 3D products that deliver a 3D image with an existing digital cinema server and white screen; and digital media adapters to adapt analog cinema audio systems to the digital audio technologies. In addition, Dolby Laboratories provides broadcast products to encode, transmit, and decode multiple channels of audio for DTV and HDTV program production and broadcast distribution; and professional reference monitor, a video monitor used in the production and post-production of cinematic and video content. The company licenses its technologies to media software vendors, such as operating system vendors, independent software vendors, and integrated circuit manufacturers; and manufacturers of home audio and video products, set top boxes, video game consoles, mobile devices, in-car entertainment systems, and personal computers. It sells its products directly to customers, as well as through dealers and distributors. The company was founded in 1965 and is based in San Francisco, California.

• Revenue: $582 million
• Market Cap: $560 million
• CEO: Wentz, David
• Industry: Personal Products
• Headquarters: Salt Lake City, Utah
• Year Founded: 1992
• Ticker: USNA (get quote)

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USANA Health Sciences, Inc. develops, manufactures, distributes, and sells nutritional and personal care products worldwide. It offers the USANA Nutritionals product line, which consists of essentials, which include vitamin and mineral supplements that provide a foundation of nutrition for various age groups; optimizers that are targeted supplements supporting needs, such as cardiovascular health, skeletal/structural health, and digestive health; and foods comprising low-glycemic meal replacement shakes, snack bars, and other related products that offer optimal macro-nutrition. Its Sense product line comprises personal care products that support healthy skin and hair. The company also offers materials and online tools, such as associate starter kit and product brochures that are designed to assist associates in building their businesses and in marketing our products. USANA Health Sciences, Inc. primarily distributes its products through a network marketing system of independent distributors. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Revenue: $168 million
• Market Cap: $407 million
• CEO: Hunt, T.
• Industry: Software
• Headquarters: Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois
• Year Founded: 1996
• Ticker: VDSI (get quote)

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VASCO Data Security International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and supports hardware and software security systems that manage and secure access to information assets worldwide. It provides hardware and software products in the areas of user authentication, electronic signatures, and digital signatures/public key infrastructure. The company offers VACMAN range of products that support multiple authentication technologies, including passwords, dynamic password technology, electronic signatures, digital signatures, and certificates and biometrics on one platform. It also provides IDENTIKEY Server, a centralized authentication server, which supports the deployment, use, and administration of DIGIPASS user authentication. In addition, the company offers aXs GUARD Identifier, a standalone authentication solution that offers two-factor authentication for remote access to a corporate network or to a Web-based in-house business applications; and aXs GUARD Gatekeeper, which brings user authentication and secure Internet communications to the enterprise through multiple software modules. Further, it provides DIGIPASS product line that exists as a family of software and hardware client authentication products and services for authenticating users to any network, including the Internet; and DIGIPASS as a service, which offers on-demand identity and transaction security as a service. The company’s DIGIPASS solution calculates dynamic signatures and passwords to authenticate users on a computer network and for various other applications. The DIGIPASS technology is also designed to operate on desktop personal computers or laptops, personal digital assistants, mobile phones, and smart cards. The company sells its security solutions through its direct sales force, as well as through distributors, resellers, and systems integrators. VASCO Data Security International, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois.

• Revenue: $127 million
• Market Cap: $129 million
• CEO: Bailly, R.
• Industry: Containers and Packaging
• Headquarters: Georgetown, Massachusetts
• Year Founded: 1963
• Ticker: UFPT (get quote)

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UFP Technologies, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of engineered packaging solutions for medical and scientific, automotive, aerospace and defense, computer and electronics, industrial, and consumer markets in the United States. The company offers packaging products primarily using polyethylene, polyurethane, cross-linked polyethylene foams, and rigid plastics for packaging of consumer goods, including computer components, light electronics, candles, and health and beauty products. Its packaging products include end-cap packs for computers, corner blocks for telecommunications consoles, anti-static foam packs for printed circuit boards, die-cut or routed inserts for cases, molded foam enclosures for orthopedic products, and plastic trays for medical devices and components. The company also fabricates and molds component products using cross-linked polyethylene foam and other materials, as well as engages in laminating fabrics and other materials to cross-linked polyethylene foams, polyurethane foams, and other substrates. Its component products include automotive interior trim, athletic padding, industrial safety belts, components for medical equipment and devices, cosmetic applicators, air conditioner filters, abrasive nail files and other beauty aids, anti-fatigue mats, and shock-absorbing inserts used in athletic and leisure footwear. The company markets and sells its products, primarily under the United Foam, Simco Automotive, and Molded Fiber names through direct sales force, independent manufacturer representatives, and distributors. In addition, it offers wine shipping solutions made from molded fiber under the Wine Packs name; tube and pipe insulation for clean room environments under the T-Tubes name; pharmaceutical bag protection system under the BioShell name; and sanitary solution for nail care services under the Pro-Sticks name. The company was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Georgetown, Massachusetts.

• Revenue: $481 million
• Market Cap: $2 billion
• CEO: Maheswaran, Mohan
• Industry: Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment
• Headquarters: Camarillo, California
• Year Founded: 1960
• Ticker: SMTC (get quote)

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Semtech Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, produces, and markets analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. The company’s product lines include protection products comprising filter and termination devices that provide protection for electronic systems from voltage spikes; power management products consisting of switching voltage regulators, combination switching and linear regulators, smart regulators, and charge pumps; and discrete semiconductor products, such as rectifiers, assemblies, and other products. It also offers wired communication, ultra-high speed Serializer/Deserializer, and modulator driver products that perform timing, synchronization, and amplification functions in high-speed networks; chips and transceivers for short reach, metro, and long haul applications; and high performance transceivers for datacenter applications. In addition, the company provides wireless and sensing products that perform radio frequency functions in industrial, medical, and networking applications; and sensing functions in industrial and consumer applications. It serves original equipment manufacturers and their subcontractors in the computing, communications, consumer, and industrial end-markets directly, and through independent distributors and sales representative firms in North America, the Asia Pacific, and Europe. Semtech Corporation was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Camarillo, California.

• Revenue: $372 million
• Market Cap: $974 million
• CEO: O’Dea, Patrick
• Industry: Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure
• Headquarters: Emeryville, California
• Year Founded: 1966
• Ticker: PEET (get quote)

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Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty coffee roaster and marketer of fresh-roasted coffee and tea in the United States. It offers whole bean coffee and related products consisting of products for home brewing, tea, and packaged foods; and beverages and pastries. The company sells its Peet’s brand coffee and tea through various channels of distribution, including grocery stores, home delivery, office, and restaurant and foodservice accounts, as well as company-owned and-operated stores. As of January 1, 2012, it operated 196 retail stores in California, Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Washington. Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.

• Revenue: $616 million
• Market Cap: $742 million
• CEO: Caporella, Nick
• Industry: Beverages
• Headquarters: Ft Lauderdale, Florida
• Year Founded: 1985
• Ticker: FIZZ (get quote)

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National Beverage Corp., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes beverage products in the United States. The company offers a range of flavored soft drinks, juices, sparkling waters, energy drinks, and nutritionally-enhanced waters. It provides its soft drink products under the Shasta and Faygo names. The company also provides health-conscious beverage products, including juice and juice based products under the Everfresh, Home Juice, and Mr. Pure brand names; sparkling and spring water products under the LaCroix, Crystal Bay, and ClearFruit brand names; and nutritionally enhanced water under the Asante brand. In addition, it offers energy drinks under the brand, Rip It; fruit-flavored drinks under the Ohana brand name; holiday soft drinks under the brand, St. Nick’s; and effervescent powder beverage enhancers under the NutraFizz brand name. Further, the company develops and produces soft drinks for retailers and beverage companies. National Beverage provides its products through national and regional grocery stores, warehouse clubs, mass-merchandisers, wholesalers and dollar stores, convenience stores, gas stations, and independent and specialized distributors, as well as through direct store distribution facilities. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

• Revenue: $173 million
• Market Cap: $486 million
• CEO: Powless, Steven
• Industry: IT Services
• Headquarters: Paducah, Kentucky
• Year Founded: 1965
• Ticker: CSVI (get quote)

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Computer Services, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides services and information technology solutions for financial institutions in a service bureau and an in-house environment. The company offers processing, maintenance, and support services; software licensing and installation services; and eBusiness services, as well as sells equipment. It also provides integrated banking solutions, including check imaging; cash management; Internet banking; print and mail, online document delivery, and item processing solutions; corporate intranets; secure Web hosting; e-messaging; teller and platform services; ATM and debit card service and support; risk assessment; network management; and compliance software and services for regulatory compliance, homeland security, and fraud prevention. In addition, the company offers Internet services, such as fiber optic backbone for high bandwidth data, voice, and video; and telephone services that comprise voice over Internet protocol and competitive local exchange carrier. Further, it provides payments processing applications, including remote image capture, remote deposit, cash letter manager, branch capture, merchant capture, document storage, and securities modules. The company serves community banks, regional banks, and multi-bank holding companies, as well as various other business enterprises with a unique set of information, technology, and service requirements in the United States. Computer Services, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Paducah, Kentucky.