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.
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.
The site requires people to register and go through a financial screening before showing them the details of the coverage that's available in their area.
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.
The screening process consists of market, financial, and management screening and it contributes positively with respect to failure rate.
Three to five weeks after scheduling a transplant evaluation appointment, the patient will come to UCLA-KPTP to attend a transplant educational seminar and complete a series of medical, psychological and financial tests to screen for health problems or other concerns that could affect the success of the transplant.
If screening rates decrease in parallel with women's decreasing financial wherewithal, the screening rates reported in this study may actually overestimate the screening rates for the community at large.
