Wall Street Darlings
Companies ranked by market value to sales ratio.
Rank |
Company
|
1999
sales
(millions) |
Market
value
(millions) |
Market
value to
sales ratio |
1 |
Akamai Technologies Inc. |
$3.99 |
$30,304.98 |
7602.86 |
2 |
Wave Systems Corp. |
$0.19 |
$495.72 |
2636.79 |
3 |
Sycamore Networks Inc. |
$59.89 |
$24,238.37 |
404.72 |
4 |
Be Free Inc. |
$5.33 |
$2,010.06 |
377.19 |
5 |
Boston Life Sciences Inc. |
$0.20 |
$59.02 |
295.08 |
6 |
Transkaryotic Therapies Inc. |
$3.87 |
$869.79 |
224.75 |
7 |
Northeast Optic Network Inc. |
$4.67 |
$1,025.65 |
219.86 |
8 |
Macrochem Corp. |
$0.46 |
$93.96 |
202.49 |
9 |
Sepracor Inc. |
$22.66 |
$3,346.69 |
147.70 |
10 |
Andover.net Inc. |
$3.81 |
$560.52 |
147.31 |
Company's stock must have traded on Dec. 31, 1999, with a price of $1 a share or higher; market value of $1 million or higher. Source: Data compiled by COMPUSTAT. |
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