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Companies with highest ratio of stock market value to sales.
4/20/93 1992 Price/ Mkt. Value Revenue Sales Rank Company ($ Millions) ($ Millions) Ratio 1 Ventritex Inc. 443.3 15.1 29.38 2 Pyxis Corp. 755.5 46.3 16.33 3 Gensia Pharmaceuticals 468.5 30.8 15.22 4 Calgene Inc. 295.7 23.7 12.48 5 Cisco Systems 5,484.2 473.5 11.58 6 Platinum Software 268.3 23.3 11.54 7 ALZA Corp. 2,420.6 229.3 10.56 8 ICU Medical 106.0 10.2 10.44 9 Cytel Corp. 102.6 10.1 10.13 10 QUALCOMM Inc. 944.1 112.4 8.40 11 Magma Power 868.7 109.0 7.97 12 Chiron Corp. 1,464.0 189.1 7.74 13 Gupta Corp. 253.4 32.8 7.73 14 Genentech Inc. 3,825.5 496.2 7.71 15 Scios Nova 189.2 25.1 7.54 16 HS Resources 196.5 26.8 7.34 17 Franklin Resources Inc. 3,087.1 432.3 7.14 18 Linear Technology Corp. 849.6 132.4 6.42 19 Wesco Financial 620.3 102.2 6.07 20 Synopsys Inc. 421.4 71.2 5.92 21 Vestar Inc. 164.7 27.9 5.90 22 Molecular Dynamics 156.9 28.2 5.57 23 Electronic Arts Inc. 1,378.5 257.2 5.36 24 Catalina Marketing 366.1 68.6 5.34 25 Mycogen Corp. 174.0 34.0 5.12
Source: STAR Services. Certain historical data is from Standard & Poor’s Compustat Inc.
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