Forbes 200 Best Small Companies

List of the 200 Best Small Companies ferrets out the most robust, fundamentally disciplined public outfits with sales between $5 million and $750 million. To qualify a company must have a share price of above $5 as of Sept. 29 on 3-month average volume of 10,000 shares. Candidates carry profit margins of greater than 5% with positive sales and profit growth, on average, over both the last five years and last twelve months. The result? Small, but growing, businesses designed to survive the ups and downs of market volatility. More...

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Corporate Profiles

Spy Planes: A Small Company Takes Off By Matthew Swibel After stumbling for years, United Industrial has found a sweet spot selling unmanned spy planes to the Army.

Bright, Very Bright By Kurt Badenhausen Tiny Daktronics has made it big in sports scoreboards. Now it's turning to outdoor advertising.


Best Of The Best The top of the heap for our annual list of America's 200 Best Small Companies.

Fastest Growing The fastest growers on our list.

Best Newcomers Outside of the top ten, the best of our 59 newcomers.

Safe Bets Companies with a high "board of directors score" and little debt should safely endure market fluctuations.

Betting On The Jockey Insider buying, double digit returns on shareholders' equity and a board score better than at least a third of its peers makes these standouts worth a look.

The List

Five Value Stocks to Own Now By Michael Maiello When you use a value approach to judge growth stocks, you get something like the buy list that Gerald Van Horn plucked out of the 200 Best Small Companies list.

Where Are They Now? By Megha Bahree Sometimes they graduate from the list with honors. Not always.

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