Business Week Top 50

Here's the annual list of the 50 best corporate performers. To arrive at the BusinessWeek 50, they ran data screens on all of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, focusing on sales growth rate and return on invested capital. All the companies are measured over time, to reward sustained performance, and compared against other companies in the same sector, to enable them to identify the best performers within their peer group. A board of BusinessWeek editors reviews the list, bringing the judgment that purely financial measures alone can't provide. You can sift through the interactive ranking below, to see how the BusinessWeek 50 companies stack up on any number of financial or qualitative measures.

This list has the Usual suspects like Google, Apple, Microsoft, AT&T. But, there are a lot of new companies in the list.

Here's the list Business Week Top 50