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Total sales (fiscal 1996) (not including financial institutions; in millions) 1 Food Lion $9,006 2 Lowe's 8,600 3 Duke Power 4,758 4 Nucor 3,647 5 Carolina Power & Light 2,996 6 Burlington Industries 2,182 7 Ruddick 2,143 8 United Dominion Industries 1,889 9 Family Dollar Stores 1,715 10 LabCorp 1,608 TOP 75 MEDIAN $366.5 Net income (fiscal 1996) (in millions) 1 NationsBank $2,360.0 2 First Union 1,490.0 3 Duke Power 685.7 4 Wachovia 644.6 5 Carolina Power & Light 381.7 6 Lowe's 292.2 7 Jefferson-Pilot 291.0 8 BB&T 283.1 9 Nucor 248.2 10 Food Lion 206.1 TOP 75 MEDIAN $11.5 Shareholder's equity (fiscal 1996) (in millions) 1 NationsBank $13,709 2 First Union 10,008 3 Duke Power 4,889 4 Wachovia 3,762 5 Carolina Power & Light 2,690 6 Jefferson-Pilot 2,297 7 Lowe's 2,217 8 BB&T 1,729 9 Nucor 1,609 10 Food Lion 1,216 TOP 75 MEDIAN $144 Dividend yield (1996 dividend to 5/14/97 price) 1 Tanger Factory Outlet Centers 7.8% 2 Summit Properties 7.8 3 Winston Hotels 7.7 4 Highwoods Properties 6.0 5 Carolina Power & Light 5.4 6 Lance 5.2 7 Public Service Co. of N.C. 4.9 8 Piedmont Natural Gas 4.7 9 Duke Power 4.6 10 Ingles Markets 4.6 TOP 75 MEDIAN 0.7% Sales Growth (fiscal 1996) 1 Intercardia 10, 143.7% 2 Closure Medical 189.6 3 Flanders 89.1 4 Highwoods Properties 87.6 5 Quintiles Transnational 66.1 6 MedCath 65.0 7 Cree Research 52.3 8 Winston Hotels 51.8 9 Personnel Group of America 46.0 10 Piedmont Natural Gas 35.6 TOP 75 MEDIAN 11.5% Net profit margin (fiscal 1996) 1 Winston Hotels 48.7% 2 Triad Guaranty 37.3 3 Bank of Granite 32.8 4 Highwoods Properties 28.5 5 Medco Research 27.3 6 Speedway Motorsports 25.9 7 First Charter 21.8 8 Wachovia 20.0 9 LSB Bancshares 19.3 10 Intercardia 18.6 TOP 75 MEDIAN 5.0% Return on average equity (fiscal 1996) 1 Coca-Cola Bottling 52.79% 2 Vanguard Cellular Systems 20.64 3 Medic Computer Systems 20.58 4 Pluma 19.71 5 Oakwood...