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The Top 25 Companies That Manage Information Best

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Drawn from a database of 2,500 publicly traded companies with $100 million in revenue, what follows is a list of the firms most adept at managing information for competitive advantage. These companies, which range in size and industry, are ranked by Information Productivity, an indicator that gauges how a company manages what has become its most important asset—its information. In the information economy, what a company knows about itself, its customers and its market can be the difference between thriving and diving.

Rank Company name Description Net sales ($M) Est. transaction costs ($M) Income before extra items ($M) IVA* ($M) Information Productivity (%)
1 Washington REIT Real Estate Investment Trust $164 $5 $45 $44 840.2%
2 Chesapeake Energy Corp. Crude Petroleum, Natural Gas $1,717 $24 $311 $166 700.7%
3 Valero LP Pipelines, Natural Gas $181 $8 $70 $47 618.7%
4 Carmike Cinemas Motion Picture Theaters $493 $15 $107 $93 607.6%
5 Eagle Materials Concrete, Gypsum, Plaster Products $427 $6 $58 $335 590.0%
6 Apache Corp. Crude Petroleum, Natural Gas $4,199 $139 $1,095 $731 527.7%
7 Stone Energy Corp. Crude Petroleum, Natural Gas $508 $15 $133 $78 527.4%
8 HomeFed Corp. Real Estate Developer $148 $12 $74 $62 511.6%
9 Houston Exploration Crude Petroleum, Natural Gas $493 $20 $134 $95 487.7%
10 Encore Acquisition Crude Petroleum, Natural Gas $220 $9 $63 $44 478.2%
11 MoneyGram Intl. Business Services $1,572 $13 $112 $58 461.1%
12 Prentiss Properties Trust Real Estate Investment Trust $359 $11 $64 $46 417.5%
13 Evergreen Resources Crude Petroleum, Natural Gas $215 $15 $73 $58 396.5%
14 Catellus Development Corp. Real Estate Investment Trust $535 $56 $228 $204 365.6%
15 Kinder Morgan Energy Natural Gas Transmission $6,624 $150 $694 $548 364.6%
16 VSE Corp. Engineering Services $134 $0.352 $2 $1 355.3%
17 Devon Energy Corp. Crude Petroleum, Natural Gas $7,352 $307 $1,731 $979 318.7%
18 Denbury Resources Crude Petroleum, Natural Gas $394 $11 $54 $35 316.3%
19 Cincinnati Bell Local Telecommunications $1,558 $342 $1,246 $1,076 314.7%
20 Kaneb Pipe Line Partners Petroleum Bulk Stations $570 $25 $84 $75 299.0%
21 Petroleum Development Crude Petroleum, Natural Gas $199 $5 $23 $14 289.9%
22 UnitedGlobalCom Communications Services $1,892 $532 $1,995 $1,513 284.6%
23 Delta Financial Corp. Mortgages & Loans $110 $23 $67 $66 280.8%
24 American Real Estate Partners Hotel & Motel Operator $231 $14 $61 $39 278.0%
25 Washington Federal Savings Institution $462 $36 $146 $91 254.5%

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