Travel is in the top 10 industries in 48 states and the District of Columbia.
The top four industries represented in the study are weapons and security, aerospace, government agencies and information technology.
The top cash industries are service providers, so they have little if any inventory adding to their balance sheet.
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Net profit margins for the top ten industries ranged from 10 percent (photography and translation services) to 16 percent (investment and portfolio advisors).
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Between 1975 and 1995, there was a doubling rate at which leading companies fell out of the top quintile in their industries.
More accurately, each of these businesses will continue their placement near the top of their respected industries for some time to come.
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Of the top ten rent-paying industries, six were either within the educational or health and social assistance summary industries.
The building sector features consistently in the top three high-risk industries for deaths and injuries, according to the HSE.
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"Extreme Competition" said top companies, across all industries, faced a 20% to 30% probability of falling out of leadership in a five-year period.
Other manufacturing industries made the top of the list, too, supporting the idea that manufacturing in the US is not in as poor of shape as hypothesized.
Companies ranked in the top 20% in their industries (from 80 to 100) get buy ratings, and those in the bottom 20% (from 20 to 1) are sells.
Top holdings include: Valmont Industries ( VMI), Nalco Holdings ( NLC), Tetra Tech ( TTEK), URS Corp. ( URS), Danaher ( DHR), Itron ( ITRI), and Lindsay Corp ( LNN).
Its top shareholder is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 24%.
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Other top military contractors are Kawasaki Heavy Industries, with 12% of defense work, and Mitsubishi Electric, with 7%.
There are plenty of industries where being that top part of the market is he best and most profitable place to be.
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In addition to dentists and therapists, other industries ranking near the top of the profitability list include outpatient care centers and death care services, or funeral homes.
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It has hired a team from the Marshall School of Business to trawl through it and to map the competences of the top executives in various functions and industries.
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Despite having many more companies listed on the Indian stock exchange in 2010, Tata ranked behind Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, which held the top slot.
Indeed, health services industries are frequently found on the top 20 list.
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Employers in the New York metro area are looking to fill 2, 478 marketing positions across a range of industries, placing it at the top of the list.
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