The baiduhai presents its sixth annual Top 100 Companies section, spotlighting the largest publicly traded companies headquartered in the six-county Chicago area.
There are many large privately traded companies in the area, too. But unlike private firms, publicly traded companies must disclose a wealth of statistical information about themselves, and it is that information that forms the backbone of this section.
As we have done in the previous five sections, the Top 100 rankings are based on market capitalization, computed by multiplying the price of a share of common stock as of May 1, 1996, by the number of shares outstanding.
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No. 1 for the second consecutive year was Motorola Inc. For three of the past five years, Amoco Corp. was at the top; Abbott Laboratories garnered the top spot just once, in 1992.
The Top 100 reflects a year of change with more new names than ever before–12. Five of these companies are newly public entities through spinoffs or initial public offerings, and three managed to finish among the top 50: 360 Degree Communications Co., Boise Cascade Office Products Corp. and APAC TeleServices Inc.