To find the 100 Best Mid-Cap Companies in America, we applied our financial screens to an initial field of over 1,000 U.S. mid-caps.
You'll also have to pass a financial screen to make sure you won't run out of money paying the monthly fee.
The 100 companies chosen in this manner must also have less than $500 million in annual sales, but they aren't bound by our other financial screens.
A combination of the recession, our strict financial screens and the market value limitation of the mid-cap sector has led to only 16 companies returning to our 2009 list of the Best Mid-Cap Companies in America from last year.
Although we loosened up some of our financial screens for the Fast 15, we still applied the same governance standards and scoured analyst reports and other news sources, as we did for the main list, in order to help us weed out companies with growing pains.
With a market cap of more than $250 billion and more than $8 billion in revenue in its most recent quarter, sales of its smart toys don't register much more than a blip on Intel's financial radar screen.
These firms - especially the fast growing "gazelles" (three to five years old) - are on everybody's financial radar screen from angel investors to venture capitalists to crowd-funders.
Despite the lack of financial barriers to screening, low and socially unequal uptake has been a persistent public health concern since the screening programme was introduced in 2006 [ 3, 4].
The 117 Mexicans under Mr. Vasconcelos have been through financial audits, psychological screening and polygraphs.
The financial implications of screening all asymptomatic diabetic patients determined to be at intermediate and high risk by clinical scoring systems is enormous.
