Arkansas companies make Forbes list. (Inside Business).Four Arkansas-based public companies are listed among Forbes magazine's Platinum List, which measures companies with more than $1 billion in revenue by long- and short-term Short-term Any investments with a maturity of one year or less. short-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss on the value of an asset that has been held less than a specified period of time. financial performance. The list appears in the magazine's Jan. 6 edition. Alltel Corp. of Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas required military intervention to desegregate schools (1957–1958). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 556–557] See : Bigotry Best Corp. of Fort Smith, J.B. Hunt Transport Services The collective functions of layers 1 through 4 of the OSI model. Inc. of Lowell and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville made the, list in their respective categories of telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , travel and transport, and retail. In the telecommunications category, Alltel had the third-highest five-year average return on capital at 15.2 percent. SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications had 16.5 percent, and Scientific-Atlanta had 16.4 percent. Alltel also posted five-year average sales growth of 13.5 percent and five-year average earnings per share growth of 27 percent. Among travel and transport companies, Arkansas Arkansas, river, United States Arkansas (ärkăn`zəs, är`kənsô'), river, c.1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., central Colo. Best posted five-year average return on capital of 12.9 percent. Arkansas Best also posted five-year average earnings per share growth of 36.8 percent. Five-year average sales growth was 'deemed not meaningful by the magazine. J.B. Hunt, in the same category as Arkansas Best, posted five-year average return on capital of 10.5 percent. J.B. Hunt also posted five-year average sales growth of 8.4 percent and five-year average earnings per share growth of 16.9 percent. In the retail category, Wal-Mart saw five-year average return on capital of 16.3 percent. Wal-Mart also posted five-year average sales growth of 16.3 percent and five-year average earnings per share growth of 18.6 percent. |
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