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A | Assets (USD), |
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S | Sales (USD), |
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MV | Market Value (USD), |
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P | Profits (USD), |
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CF | Cash Flow (USD), |
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E | Employees. |
| Company | A | S | MV | P | CF | E | Sector |
| Bell Atlantic | 19788 | 9084 | 10636 | 1092.9 | 2576.8 | 79.4 | Communication |
| Continental Telecom | 5074 | 2557 | 1892 | 239.9 | 578.3 | 21.9 | Communication |
| American Electric Power | 13621 | 4848 | 4572 | 485.0 | 898.9 | 23.4 | Energy |
| Brooklyn Union Gas | 1117 | 1038 | 478 | 59.7 | 91.7 | 3.8 | Energy |
| Centra lIllinois Publ. Serv. | 1633 | 701 | 679 | 74.3 | 135.9 | 2.8 | Energy |
| Cleveland Electric Illum. | 5651 | 1254 | 2002 | 310.7 | 407.9 | 6.2 | Energy |
| Columbia Gas System | 5835 | 4053 | 1601 | -93.8 | 173.8 | 10.8 | Energy |
| Florida Progress | 3494 | 1653 | 1442 | 160.9 | 320.3 | 6.4 | Energy |
| Idaho Power | 1654 | 451 | 779 | 84.8 | 130.4 | 1.6 | Energy |
| Kansas Power & Light | 1679 | 1354 | 687 | 93.8 | 154.6 | 4.6 | Energy |
| Mesa Petroleum | 1257 | 355 | 181 | 167.5 | 304.0 | 0.6 | Energy |
| Montana Power | 1743 | 597 | 717 | 121.6 | 172.4 | 3.5 | Energy |
| Peoples Energy | 1440 | 1617 | 639 | 81.7 | 126.4 | 3.5 | Energy |
| Phillips Petroleum | 14045 | 15636 | 2754 | 418.0 | 1462.0 | 27.3 | Energy |
| Publ. Serv. Coof New Mexico | 3010 | 749 | 1120 | 146.3 | 209.2 | 3.4 | Energy |
| San Diego Gas & Electric | 3086 | 1739 | 1507 | 202.7 | 335.2 | 4.9 | Energy |
| Valero Energy | 1995 | 2662 | 341 | 34.7 | 100.7 | 2.3 | Energy |
| American Savings Bank FSB | 3614 | 367 | 90 | 14.1 | 24.6 | 1.1 | Finance |
| Bank South | 2788 | 271 | 304 | 23.5 | 28.9 | 2.1 | Finance |
| H & R Block | 327 | 542 | 959 | 54.1 | 72.5 | 2.8 | Finance |
| California First Bank | 5401 | 550 | 376 | 25.6 | 37.5 | 4.1 | Finance |
| Cigna | 44736 | 16197 | 4653 | -732.5 | -651.9 | 48.5 | Finance |
| Dreyfus | 401 | 176 | 1084 | 55.6 | 57.0 | 0.7 | Finance |
| First American | 4789 | 453 | 367 | 40.2 | 51.4 | 3.0 | Finance |
| First Empire State | 2548 | 264 | 181 | 22.2 | 26.2 | 2.1 | Finance |
| First Tennessee National | 5249 | 527 | 346 | 37.8 | 56.2 | 4.1 | Finance |
| Marine Corp | 3720 | 356 | 211 | 26.6 | 34.8 | 2.4 | Finance |
| Mellon Bank | 33406 | 3222 | 1413 | 201.7 | 246.7 | 15.8 | Finance |
| National City | 12505 | 1302 | 702 | 108.4 | 131.4 | 9.0 | Finance |
| Norstar Bancorp | 8998 | 882 | 988 | 93.0 | 119.0 | 7.4 | Finance |
| Norwest | 21419 | 2516 | 930 | 107.6 | 164.7 | 15.6 | Finance |
| Southeast Banking | 11052 | 1097 | 606 | 64.9 | 97.6 | 7.0 | Finance |
| Sovran Financial | 9672 | 1037 | 829 | 92.6 | 118.2 | 8.2 | Finance |
| United Financial Group | 4989 | 518 | 53 | -3.1 | -0.3 | 0.8 | Finance |
| Apple Computer | 1022 | 1754 | 1370 | 72.0 | 119.5 | 4.8 | HiTech |
| Digital Equipment | 6914 | 7029 | 7957 | 400.6 | 754.7 | 87.3 | HiTech |
| Eg & G | 430 | 1155 | 1045 | 55.7 | 70.8 | 22.5 | HiTech |
| General Electric | 26432 | 28285 | 33172 | 2336.0 | 3562.0 | 304.0 | HiTech |
| Hewlett-Packard | 5769 | 6571 | 9462 | 482.0 | 792.0 | 83.0 | HiTech |
| IBM | 52634 | 50056 | 95697 | 6555.0 | 9874.0 | 400.2 | HiTech |
| NCR | 3940 | 4317 | 3940 | 315.2 | 566.3 | 62.0 | HiTech |
| Telex | 478 | 672 | 866 | 67.1 | 101.6 | 5.4 | HiTech |
| Armstrong World Industries | 1093 | 1679 | 1070 | 100.9 | 164.5 | 20.8 | Manufacturing |
| CBI Industries | 1128 | 1516 | 430 | -47.0 | 26.7 | 13.2 | Manufacturing |
| Fruehauf | 1804 | 2564 | 483 | 70.5 | 164.9 | 26.6 | Manufacturing |
| Halliburton | 4662 | 4781 | 2988 | 28.7 | 371.5 | 66.2 | Manufacturing |
| LTV | 6307 | 8199 | 598 | -771.5 | -524.3 | 57.5 | Manufacturing |
| Owens-Corning Fiberglas | 2366 | 3305 | 1117 | 131.2 | 256.5 | 25.2 | Manufacturing |
| PPG Industries | 4084 | 4346 | 3023 | 302.7 | 521.7 | 37.5 | Manufacturing |
| Textron | 10348 | 5721 | 1915 | 223.6 | 322.5 | 49.5 | Manufacturing |
| Turner | 752 | 2149 | 101 | 11.1 | 15.2 | 2.6 | Manufacturing |
| United Technologies | 10528 | 14992 | 5377 | 312.7 | 710.7 | 184.8 | Manufacturing |
| Commun. Psychiatric Centers | 278 | 205 | 853 | 44.8 | 50.5 | 3.8 | Medical |
| Hospital Corp of America | 6259 | 4152 | 3090 | 283.7 | 524.5 | 62.0 | Medical |
| AH Robins | 707 | 706 | 275 | 61.4 | 77.8 | 6.1 | Medical |
| Shared Medical Systems | 252 | 312 | 883 | 41.7 | 60.6 | 3.3 | Medical |
| Air Products | 2687 | 1870 | 1890 | 145.7 | 352.2 | 18.2 | Other |
| Allied Signal | 13271 | 9115 | 8190 | -279.0 | 83.0 | 143.8 | Other |
| Bally Manufactoring | 1529 | 1295 | 444 | 25.6 | 137.0 | 19.4 | Other |
| Crown Cork & Seal | 866 | 1487 | 944 | 71.7 | 115.4 | 12.6 | Other |
| Ex-Cell-0 | 799 | 1140 | 633 | 57.6 | 89.2 | 15.4 | Other |
| Liz Claiborne | 223 | 557 | 1040 | 60.6 | 63.7 | 1.9 | Other |
| Warner Communications | 2286 | 2235 | 2306 | 195.3 | 219.0 | 8.0 | Other |
| Dayton-Hudson | 4418 | 8793 | 4459 | 283.6 | 456.5 | 128.0 | Retail |
| Dillard Department Stores | 862 | 160l | 1093 | 66.9 | 106.8 | 16.0 | Retail |
| Giant Food | 623 | 2247 | 797 | 57.0 | 93.8 | 18.6 | Retail |
| Great A & P Tea | 1608 | 6615 | 829 | 56.1 | 134.0 | 65.0 | Retail |
| Kroger | 4178 | 17124 | 2091 | 180.8 | 390.4 | 164.6 | Retail |
| May Department Stores | 3442 | 5080 | 2673 | 235.4 | 361.5 | 77.3 | Retail |
| Stop & Shop Cos | 1112 | 3689 | 542 | 30.3 | 96.9 | 43.5 | Retail |
| Supermarkets General | 1104 | 5123 | 910 | 63.7 | 133.3 | 48.5 | Retail |
| Wickes Cos | 2957 | 2806 | 457 | 40.6 | 93.5 | 50.0 | Retail |
| FW Woolworth | 2535 | 5958 | 1921 | 177.0 | 288.0 | 118.1 | Retail |
| AMR | 6425 | 6131 | 2448 | 345.8 | 682.5 | 49.5 | Transportation |
| IU International | 999 | 1878 | 393 | -173.5 | -108.1 | 23.3 | Transportation |
| PanAm | 2448 | 3484 | 1036 | 48.8 | 257.1 | 25.4 | Transportation |
| Republic Airlines | 1286 | 1734 | 361 | 69.2 | 145.7 | 14.3 | Transportation |
| TWA | 2769 | 3725 | 663 | -208.4 | 12.4 | 29.1 | Transportation |
| Western AirLines | 952 | 1307 | 309 | 35.4 | 92.8 | 10.3 | Transportation |