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With fewer public companies in area, Star 50 shrinks

May 12, 7:09 PM

Forget what the science books say — the universe is shrinking. It is at least for the Star 50*. This is our 21st annual ranking of publicly traded companies based in Kansas and Missouri outside the St. Louis area. For the first time we can’t find 50 companies to rank. There are 49, hence the asterisk to this year’s package.
• Revenue leaders | Profit leaders | Market value leaders | CEO compensation

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O’Reilly Automotive maintains its top slot in Star 50*

May 10, 12:54 AM

For the fourth time in 21 years, a Star 50* winner has managed to repeat. No. 1 O’Reilly Automotive Inc. rode its growing sales of auto parts to professional and do-it-yourself mechanics, as well as a size-boosting merger, to its first-place finish a year ago.

A quick look at the top Star 50* companies

Base pay for many CEOs stays the same while extras for them soar

May 10, 12:56 AM

Prodded by government regulators and shareholders, public companies have moved toward greater compensation transparency for top executives. What a chief executive earned is supposed to be clearer.

How Star 50* ranks companies

May 10, 12:10 AM

The Star 50* annual ranking of the region’s public companies enters its third decade with this year’s publication. From its inception in 1991 through 2000, Star 50* compared companies in four categories: revenues, return on equity, increase in income, and profit increase as a percent of revenues.