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Companies with highest ratio of stock market value to sales.

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4/19/96 1995 Price/ Mkt. value Revenue sales Rank Company ($ millions) ($ millions) ratio 1 Pixar Animation Studios 785 12 66 2 Netscape Communications 4,305 78 52 3 ThermoLase Corp. 1,205 25 46 4 Xylan Corp. 2,539 30 46 5 Forte Software Inc. 867 23 38 6 Ascend Communications 6,367 150 37 7 Objective Sys. Integrator 1,273 36 37 8 San Francisco Co. 303 11 27 9 Atari Corp. 362 15 25 10 VISX Inc. 470 17 23 11 Protein Design Labs Inc. 404 18 23 12 Remedy Corp. 849 40 23 13 HNC Software Inc. 533 25 20 14 Cygnus Inc. 390 19 18 15 Premisys Communications 999 62 17 16 IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp. 387 24 17 17 Amylin Pharmaceuticals 276 13 17 18 Gemstar International 863 47 17 19 Documentum Inc. 501 30 16 20 Dura Pharmaceuticals 690 43 16 21 Novadigm Inc. 340 21 16 22 ISIS Pharmaceuticals 287 16 15 23 Pure Software Inc. 635 39 15 24 Veritas Software Corp. 338 24 15 25 C-Cube Microsystems Inc. 1,688 125 15

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