The 2008 IW 50 Best Manufacturing Companies
The IW 50 Best Manufacturing Companies is IndustryWeek's report on the 50
best publicly held U.S. manufacturing companies. To identify the top performing manufacturers, the IW formula factored in
revenue growth and profit margin over the past three years, with 2007
results weighted most heavily. We also considered three-year performance in
four other financial ratios: inventory turns, asset turnover, return on
assets and return on equity. This list was published in the June 2008 issue of IndustryWeek .
Company Revenue ($millions) Profit Margin (%)
Allegheny Technologies Inc.
$5,453
13.7
Alon USA Energy Inc.
$4,542
2.29
Amphenol Corp.
$2,851
12.39
Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.
$16,686
12.68
Apple Inc.
$24,006
14.56
Baker Hughes Inc.
$10,428
14.52
Bucyrus International Inc.
$1,613
8.44
Chevron Corp.
$216,760
8.62
Cisco Systems Inc.
$34,922
21
Coach Inc.
$2,612
25.4
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
$13,790
12.6
Commercial Metals Co.
$8,329
4.27
Cummins Inc.
$13,048
5.66
Dell Inc.
$61,133
4.82
Donaldson Co. Inc.
$1,919
7.85
Exxon Mobil Corp.
$395,651
10.26
FMC Technologies Inc.
$4,615
6.56
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
$16,939
17.57
Frontier Oil Corp.
$5,189
9.62
Harley-Davidson Inc.
$6,143
15.2
Herman Miller Inc.
$1,919
6.73
Hess Corp.
$31,748
5.77
Holly Corp.
$4,792
6.97
Kinetic Concepts Inc.
$1,610
14.73
Lam Research Corp.
$2,567
26.72
Lockheed Martin Corp.
$41,862
7.25
Marathon Oil Corp.
$64,662
6.12
McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc.
$6,772
14.97
MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.
$1,922
42.99
Microsoft Corp.
$51,122
27.51
Mueller Industries Inc.
$2,698
4.28
Murphy Oil Corp.
$18,439
4.16
Nucor Corp.
$16,593
8.87
NVIDIA Corp.
$4,098
19.46
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
$20,013
26.98
PepsiCo Inc.
$39,474
14.33
Qualcomm Inc.
$8,871
37.23
Quanex Corp.
$2,049
6.57
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.
$7,266
5.61
Rockwell Collins Inc.
$4,415
13.25
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc.
$2,572
5.11
Southern Copper Corp.
$6,086
36.42
Steel Dynamics Inc.
$4,385
9
Sunoco Inc.
$44,697
1.99
Tempur-Pedic International Inc.
$1,107
12.78
Tesoro Corp.
$21,915
2.58
Thor Industries Inc.
$2,856
4.72
Valero Energy Corp.
$95,327
5.49
Varian Medical Systems Inc.
$1,777
13.48
Western Digital Corp.
$5,468
10.31
