Vetting the BW 50’s Investment Potential (BusinessWeek Online)

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.