The 2009 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 2008
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 2009 issue of IndustryWeek .
Company Revenue ($millions) Revenue Growth (%) Profit Margin (%)
Alliant Techsystems Inc.
$4,172
17.02
5.33
Alon USA Energy Inc.
$5,157
13.53
1.61
Apple Inc.
$32,479
35.3
14.88
Baker Hughes Inc.
$11,864
13.77
13.78
Calumet Specialty Product Partners LP
$2,489
51.97
1.79
CF Industries Holdings Inc.
$3,921
42.24
17.46
Chevron Corp.
$267,639
23.47
8.94
Cisco Systems Inc.
$39,540
13.22
20.36
Coach Inc.
$3,181
21.75
24.62
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
$15,330
11.17
12.77
Commercial Metals Co.
$10,427
25.19
2.22
Dell Inc.
$61,101
-0.05
4.06
Donaldson Co. Inc.
$2,233
16.35
7.7
Emerson Electric Co.
$24,807
9.9
9.72
Exxon Mobil Corp.
$466,278
17.85
9.7
Foster Wheeler Ltd.
$6,854
34.21
7.68
Frontier Oil Corp.
$6,499
25.25
1.23
Harris Corp.
$5,311
25.17
8.36
Herman Miller Inc.
$2,012
4.86
7.57
Hess Corp.
$41,050
29.3
5.75
Holly Corp.
$5,868
22.45
2.05
Joy Global Inc.
$3,419
34.22
10.95
Kellogg Co.
$12,822
8.88
8.95
Kinetic Concepts Inc.
$1,878
16.64
9.26
Knoll Inc.
$1,120
6.09
7.58
Lam Research Corp.
$2,475
-3.57
17.75
Lockheed Martin Corp.
$42,731
2.08
7.53
Marathon Oil Corp.
$77,804
20.32
4.53
MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.
$2,005
4.3
19.33
Microsoft Corp.
$60,420
18.19
29.26
Murphy Oil Corp.
$27,513
49.21
6.32
Nike Inc.
$18,627
14.09
10.11
Nucor Corp.
$23,663
42.61
7.74
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
$24,480
22.32
28.01
PepsiCo Inc.
$43,251
9.57
11.89
Philip Morris International Inc.
$63,640
15.51
10.83
Polaris Industries Inc.
$1,948
9.45
6.03
Precision Castparts Corp.
$6,852
27.81
14.41
Qualcomm Inc.
$11,142
25.6
28.36
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.
$8,719
20
5.54
Rockwell Automation Inc.
$5,698
13.87
10.14
Rockwell Collins Inc.
$4,769
8.02
14.22
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc.
$3,642
41.57
6.83
Steel Dynamics Inc.
$8,081
84.3
5.73
Sunoco Inc.
$54,124
21.09
1.43
Terra Industries Inc.
$2,891
22.52
22.17
United States Steel Corp.
$23,754
40.78
8.89
Varian Medical Systems Inc.
$2,070
16.5
13.5
Western Refining Inc.
$10,726
46.82
0.6
