Two Milwaukee Area Firms Make Business Week 'Hot Growth' List
The Business Journal of
May 29, 2007
Bucyrus International Inc. and
Actuant Corp. have been named among the list of Top 100 "Hot Growth
Companies" in BusinessWeek's June 4 issue.
The list, which rates businesses by
three-year sales and earnings growth and return on capital, ranked South
Milwaukee-based mining equipment manufacturer Bucyrus (NASDAQ: BUCY) 38th.
Actuant (NYSE: ATU), a Butler-based manufacturer of motion control systems and
branded tools, ranked 82nd.
The BusinessWeek report uses data from Standard & Poor's Compustat database of 10,000 public companies for those with annual revenues between $50 million and $1.5 billion.