SV150 TOP 10 LISTS

SALES CHANGES
Combined sales for the SV150 rose 17.5 percent in 2011 after climbing 16.5 percent the year before. The median growth rate among the companies was 10 percent. The number of companies reporting sales declines, however, more than doubled to 39, up from 19 the year before.

WORKFORCE CHANGES SALES PER EMPLOYEE

The SV150 as a group boosted employment in 2011 to a record 1.2 million jobs, up 12.2 percent from the year before and the biggest gain in three years. Nearly three out of four companies added workers last year, with the median increase being 8.2 percent. Sales per employee among the SV150 in 2011 broke the record level set the year before, climbing by more than $23,000, or 4.7 percent, to $514,563. The gains were hardly uniform, however, with the median performance being a gain of $1,700 per employee, or half of 1 percent.

Biggest percentage gains in sales

SV150 Rank rank Company 2011 sales (millions) 1-year change

Biggest gains in workforce

SV150 Rank rank Company 2011 employees 1-year change

Biggest gains in sales per employee

Rank SV150 rank Company Sales per employee in 2011 1-year change

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

58 69 90 96 48 94 115 1 129 137

iGate LinkedIn* OCZ Technology Group Pandora Media* Zynga* Ubiquiti Networks* Tesla Motors Apple InvenSense* Depomed

$780 $522 $320 $274 $1,140 $286 $204 $127,841 $144 $133

178% 115% 103% 99% 91% 77% 75% 68% 67% 65%

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

136 58 117 86 69 48 96 60 115 7

Sciclone Pharmaceuticals iGate Dialogic Accuray LinkedIn* Zynga* Pandora Media* Rovi Tesla Motors eBay

875 26,523 935 1,100 2,116 2,846 530 2,024 1,417 27,770

235% 217% 184% 144% 114% 92% 80% 69% 58% 57%

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

90 93 94 125 135 112 24 34 21 108

OCZ Technology Group Exelixis Ubiquiti Networks* Echelon Responsys* Ultratech Netflix LSI Nvidia Symmetricom

$758,052 $1,448,180 $3,105,315 $518,169 $276,514 $659,419 $1,364,811 $445,501 $792,925 $397,535

224% 200% 62% 48% 43% 38% 38% 36% 35% 34%

Biggest percentage drops in sales

SV150 Rank rank Company 2011 sales (millions) 1-year change

Biggest drops in workforce

SV150 Rank rank Company 2011 employees 1-year change

Biggest drops in sales per employee

Rank SV150 rank Company Sales per employee in 2011 1-year change

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

150 84 70 122 132 17 101 119 98 100

Intevac Trident Microsystems Impax Laboratories Sigma Designs Ikanos Communicationss Yahoo Tessera Technologies DSP Group Affymetrix Micrel

$83 $298 $513 $183 $137 $4,984 $255 $194 $267 $259

-59% -46% -42% -36% -29% -21% -16% -14% -14% -13%

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

93 90 143 34 108 133 21 132 124 87

Exelixis OCZ Technology Group PLX Technology LSI Symmetricom Exar Nvidia Ikanos Communicationss Openwave Systems Opnext

200 422 205 4,588 570 477 5,042 337 536 512

-48% -37% -21% -20% -19% -17% -16% -13% -8% -8%

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

117 150 136 70 84 122 86 17 147 60

Dialogic Intevac Sciclone Pharmaceuticals Impax Laboratories Trident Microsystems Sigma Designs Accuray Yahoo! Meru Networks Rovi

$211,855 $193,413 $152,733 $511,895 $196,024 $264,279 $306,222 $353,489 $224,494 $359,778

-61% -58% -53% -47% -46% -45% -33% -24% -23% -20%

Biggest dollar gains in sales

Rank SV150 rank Company 2011 sales (billions) 1-yr. chg. (millions)

Biggest total gains in employees

Rank SV150 rank Company 2011 1-yr. chg. employees (employees)

Biggest dollar gains

Rank SV150 rank Company Sales per employee in 2011 1-year change

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 3 5 6 7 4 8 15 24 11

Apple Intel Google Oracle eBay Cisco Systems Synnex NetApp Netflix Agilent Technologies

$127.84 $53 $37.91 $36.98 $11.65 $44.84 $10.37 $5.96 $3.21 $6.73

$51,558 $10,376 $8,584 $2,501 $2,495 $2,483 $1,191 $1,093 $1,042 $981

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 58 3 1 7 5 6 8 31 23

Hewlett-Packard iGate Intel Apple eBay Google Oracle Synnex Salesforce.com VMware

349,600 26,523 100,100 60,400 27,770 32,467 108,000 10,208 7,785 11,000

25,000 18,163 17,600 13,800 10,070 8,067 3,000 2,754 2,479 2,000

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

94 93 90 1 24 21 112 125 129 120

Ubiquiti Networks* Exelixis OCZ Technology Group Apple Netflix Nvidia Ultratech Echelon InvenSense* Mattson Technology

$3,105,315 $1,188,768 $1,448,180 $965,021 $758,052 $524,097 $2,116,573 $479,599 $1,364,811 $372,779 $792,925 $205,214 $659,419 $182,809 $518,169 $168,986 $574,968 $142,305 $484,154 $119,141

Biggest dollar drops in sales

SV150 Rank rank Company 2011 sales (millions) 1-yr. chg. (millions)

Biggest total drops in employees

SV150 Rank rank Company 2011 1-yr. chg. employees (employees)

Biggest dollar drops

Rank SV150 rank Company Sales per employee in 2011 1-year change

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 17 70 9 84 26 150 45 122 49

Hewlett-Packard Yahoo Impax Laboratories Applied Materials Trident Microsystems Lam Research Intevac Linear Technology Sigma Designs Spansion

$124,979 $4,984 $513 $10,020 $298 $2,826 $83 $1,336 $183 $1,070

-$2,179 -$1,340 -$367 -$366 -$259 -$179 -$120 -$114 -$104 -$98

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

34 21 90 121 93 41 22 108 59 32

LSI Nvidia OCZ Technology Group Oplink Communicationss Exelixis Fairchild Semiconductor Electronic Arts Symmetricom Intersil Brocade Communications

4,588 5,042 422 3,570 200 8,817 7,645 570 1,643 4,546

-1,130 -987 -253 -251 -183 -160 -155 -130 -119 -105

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

70 117 150 122 8 136 84 26 86 66

Impax Laboratories Dialogic Intevac Sigma Designs Synnex Sciclone Pharmaceuticals Trident Microsystems Lam Research Accuray Synaptics

$511,895 $211,855 $193,413 $264,279 $1,015,831 $152,733 $196,024 $763,655 $306,222 $835,337

-$446,177 -$331,519 -$261,711 -$220,383 -$215,594 -$173,359 -$170,072 -$165,999 -$150,630 -$145,448

BIGGEST PROFITS
Net profits among the SV150 climbed 22.1 percent in 2011 to $101.1 billion, after jumping 74.5 percent the year before. However, the number of companies that reported drops in net profit last year rose to 74 nearly triple the number that saw profit declines the year before.
SV150 rank 2011 net profit (billions) 1-year change Rank Company

BEST PROFIT MARGINS

Profit margin is net profit divided by sales. The SV150 had a record margin of 16.3 percent in 2011, up from the previous record of 15.7 percent the year before. While the group's margin increased by sixtenths of a percentage point, the median change was actually a decline of two-tenths of a point.
Rank SV150 rank Company 2011 net profit (in millions) 2011 profit margin Rank

BIGGEST LOSSES
Forty six companies among the SV150 reported net losses in 2011, up from 34 the year before. The biggest loss was recorded by SunPower, the San Jose maker of solar products. More than half of its loss came from reductions in the value of some its assets related to changes in European incentives for solar power.
SV150 rank Company Net loss in 2011 (in millions) 1-yr. chg. (in millions)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 3 6 5 4 2 7 10 9 11

Apple Intel Oracle Google Cisco Systems Hewlett-Packard eBay Gilead Sciences Applied Materials Agilent Technologies

$32.98 $12.94 $9.74 $9.74 $7 $5.94 $3.23 $2.80 $1.54 $1.05

98% 13% 26% 14% -8% -35% 79% -3% 13% 31%

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

137 145 104 33 45 10 54 37 7 94

Depomed Keynote Systems TiVo Altera Linear Technology Gilead Sciences Dolby Laboratories Intuitive Surgical eBay Ubiquiti Networks

$70.7 $51.4 $102 $771 $496 $2,804 $296 $495 $3,229 $77.4

53.2% 46.2% 42.9% 37.3% 37.1% 33.4% 31.3% 28.2% 27.7% 27.1%

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

29 48 115 22 122 84 80 81 123 86

SunPower Zynga Tesla Motors Electronic Arts Sigma Designs Trident Microsystems Oclaro Infinera Formfactor Accuray

($603.9) ($404.3) ($254.4) ($173.0) ($168.0) ($150.4) ($87.8) ($81.7) ($66.0) ($63.0)

-$782.6 -$494.9 -$100.1 $224.0 -$177.2 -$21.5 -$98.8 -$53.8 $122.3 -$69.8

BIGGEST MARKET VALUES

Market value is the number of shares outstanding for each company mulitplied by its price. The combined value of the SV150 rose 15.8 percent over the past year to $1.79 trillion as of March 30. That followed an 11 percent gain the year before. More than half the SV150 companies saw their value drop over the past year.
SV150 Rank rank Company Market value March 30 (billions) 1-Yr. Chg.

MARKET-VALUETO-SALES RATIO
One way to see how investors value a company is by looking at what they are willing to pay for it relative to its sales. The ratio is calculated by dividing the company's market value by its sales over the past four quarters. Investors valued the SV150 as a group at 2.9 times sales as of March 30, down from 2.94 the year before.
SV150 Rank rank Company Market value (in billions) Value-tosales ratio

BIGGEST MARKET VALUE GAINS

These companies saw the biggest percentage increases in their market value over the past year. Apple became the world's most valuable company last year. Two of the top 10, InvenSense and Ubiquiti Networks, held their initial public offerings in 2011. Their change in value is measured from the end of their first day of public trading.
SV150 Rank rank Company Market value March 30 (in millions) 1-Yr. Chg.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 5 6 3 4 7 23 2 10 37

Apple Google Oracle Intel Cisco Systems eBay VMware Hewlett-Packard Gilead Sciences Intuitive Surgical

$558.93 $207.69 $145.07 $140.44 $113.91 $47.47 $47.44 $47.12 $37.03 $21.47

74% 10% -14% 27% 20% 18% 39% -47% 10% 64%

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

69 115 105 23 37 94 129 78 95 31

LinkedIn Tesla Motors NetSuite VMware Intuitive Surgical Ubiquiti Networks InvenSense Fortinet Cepheid Salesforce.com

$10.08 $3.9 $3.49 $47.44 $21.47 $2.91 $1.46 $4.32 $2.74 $21.17

19.3 19.1 14.8 12.6 12.2 10.2 10.2 10.0 9.9 9.3

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

129 136 94 105 75 39 1 130 90 37

InvenSense* $1,461 Sciclone Pharmaceuticals $365 Ubiquiti Networks* $2,905 NetSuite $3,493 Leapfrog Enterprises $575 Equinix $7,346 Apple $558,928 Ipass $154 OCZ Technology Group $472 Intuitive Surgical $21,467

107% 88% 85% 83% 83% 75% 74% 71% 70% 64%

*Initial public offering held in 2011