BusinessWeek Online - That's because the proprietary screen we use to rank the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by their performance -- and then use to anoint the top 50 companies in that ranking as the BusinessWeek 50 -- rewards companies that are growing the fastest. During bull markets, growth stocks do well -- and that was the case with the BusinessWeek 50 companies during the Roaring '90s when they regularly outperformed the major indexes the year after they were named to the list.
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