100 Fastest-Growing Companies
This is the 39th year for our annual Fastest-Growing Companies list, which ranks companies based on growth in revenue, profits, and stock returns; this year’s edition tracks those metrics over the three years through June 2024. The companies featured are worth a combined $6.7 trillion in market capitalization and, on average, delivered an annual 28% return to shareholders over the past three years. That significantly outperformed the S&P 500 index’s 10% annual return to shareholders over the same period.
The Top 10
TORM
Transportation
Core Natural Resources
Energy
e.l.f. Beauty
Industrials
Super Micro Computer
Technology
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First Citizens BancShares
Financials
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100 Fastest-Growing Companies Coverage
Fortune Ranking
Methodology
To qualify, a company–domestic or foreign–must be trading on a major U.S. stock exchange; report data in U.S. dollars; file quarterly reports with the SEC; have a minimum market capitalization of $225 million and a stock price of at least $5 on June 28, 2024; and have been trading continuously since June 30, 2021. Companies must have revenue and net income for the four quarters ended on or before April 30, 2024, of at least $50 million and $10 million, respectively, and have posted an annualized growth in revenue and earnings per share of at least 20% annually over the three years ended on or before April 30, 2024.
Companies that meet these criteria are ranked by revenue growth rate, EPS growth rate, and three-year annualized total return for the period ended June 28, 2024. (To compute the revenue and EPS growth rates, Fortune uses a trailing-four-quarters log linear least square regression fit.)
The overall rank is based on the sum of the three ranks. Once the 100 companies are identified, they are then re-ranked within the 100, using the three equally weighted variables. If there is a tie, the company with the larger four-quarter revenue receives the higher rank.
Excluded are real estate investment trusts, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, business development companies, closed end investment firms, and companies that lost money in the quarter ended on or before April 30, 2024. In addition, Fortune excludes companies that have announced intentions to restate previously reported financial data, if these errors appear to have a significant impact. Also, Fortune excludes companies that lost money in the quarter ended May 31 or June 30, if the loss represents deterioration in business conditions. The data are provided by Zacks Investment Research. The data checking process was aided by information provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.