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| Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:05 PM PDT Home > The Ticker > Archives > 2010 > August > 20 > Entry Austin-based Luminex Corp. and EZcorp are 42nd and 87th, respectively, on Fortune magazine's annual list of the 100 fastest growing companies. The list ranks companies based on 3-year growth in earnings per share and revenue and the total return for investors. Luminex, which develops biological testing systems, had a 59-percent increase in revenue last year, tied in part to sales tied to tests for H1N1 flu. Over the 3 year period Fortune measured, the company had a 51-percent increase in earnings per share, a 32 percent revenue gain and a 10 percent increase in total return. EZcorp, which operates pawnshops and payday loan centers in the U.S. and Mexico, had a 29-percent earnings per-share growth over the period, plus 25 percent growth in revenue and a 12 percent return gain. The top company was Canada's Eldorado Gold, a mining company, with a 119-percent growth in earnings per share. The full list is at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortunefastestgrowing/2010/full_list/ Permalink | Comments (1) | Post your comment Categories: Austin public companies This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Friday's Personal Finance daily - Marketwatch Posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:22 PM PDT Alert Email Print By MarketWatch Don't miss these top stories: Hunting for a job can be a lonely process. Even though millions of Americans are all essentially in the same boat, doing their utmost to land a paying position in this dismal U.S. labor market, in the end each job seeker is very much on his own, worrying about the best résumé format to use, what references are saying about past performance, and fidgeting nervously in the anteroom of the office of that (fingers crossed) next employer. Only these days more of those job seekers aren't in that office at all. In fact, they may be thousands of miles away, sitting nervously alone at home, in front of their computer, as they await the appointed hour to log into an Internet-based video interview. There's no secretary or receptionist with whom to break the ice, no sense of what sort of "feel" the work environment has. It's face to face, in a sense, but interviewing by a remote connection is nothing like being there in person. It's hard to know where to look -- your eyes are drawn to the face on the screen but you need to focus on the camera lens if you want the interviewer to see your eyes -- and any number of mishaps could ensue, from an interruption by your vociferous dog or a dropped connection, where the screen goes blank. Read Catherine Carlock's story today, and watch her video, for tips to make sure you nail that video interview. She oughta know: Her MarketWatch internship in San Francisco ends today, but Catherine landed a job in North Carolina solely based on phone and video interviews. -- Andrea Coombes, Personal Finance editor How to nail a job interview -- by videoThese days, a job seeker can land a job without ever setting foot inside the company's office, traveling to the city where the office is, or even meeting the company's recruiters in person -- thanks to video communication tools such as Skype that connect employers with candidates over the Internet. Tips for handling a job interview over SkypeMore companies are tapping into Skype and other video-communication tools to interview job seekers. But talking to a prospective employer over an Internet connection is not without pitfalls. Catherine Carlock offers tips to help you do it right. HEALTH CAREIPods, environmental noise eyed as teens' hearing loss risesAmericans are used to protecting their hearing before shooting a gun at a firing range. Now that a new study shows the portion of U.S. teenagers with hearing loss has jumped 31% in the past 20 years, will the same message about loud and sustained high decibels reach the generation that proudly sports ear buds and listens for hours to personal music players like the iPod? RETIREMENTMore retirement savers take loans, hardship withdrawalsEven as retirement savers recouped some investment losses from a year ago, financial struggles are forcing more of them to take out loans and hardship withdrawals from their 401(k) plans, according to data released Friday from Fidelity Investments. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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