JLG Places 22nd on FORTUNE's Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List

September 15, 2006 • JLG Industries, Inc., McConnellsburg, Pa., announced that it has placed 22nd on FORTUNE magazine's 2006 list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies. To compute the rankings, FORTUNE uses data from Zacks Investment Research and gives equal weight to three factors: profit and sales growth (for three years through the first quarter of 2006) and three-year total return (through June). The company's total shareholder return ranked 17th with revenue and earnings-per-share growth rates ranking 46th and 52nd, respectively.

 

Companies qualifying for this year's listing were required over the three years ended on or before March 31, 2006 to be incorporated in the U.S.; to have a minimum market capitalization of $250 million and a stock price of at least $5; to have traded continuously since June 30, 2003; to have revenue and net income for the four quarters ended on or before March 31, 2006, of at least $50 million and $10 million, respectively; and to have a compound annual growth in revenue and earnings per share of at least 25% annually. The complete list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies for 2006 appears in the Sept. 18 edition of FORTUNE and at FORTUNE.com.