Top 75: ranking the state's largest public companies.

• Position: North Carolina - Tabular data only - Directory

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Total sales (fiscal 1995) (in millions) 1 Food Lion $8,211 2 Lowe's 7,075 3 Duke Power 4,677 4 Nucor 3,462 5 Carolina Power & Light 3,007 6 Burlington Industries 2,209 7 Ruddick 2,071 8 United Dominion Industries 1,805 9 Unifi 1,555 10 Family Dollar Stores 1,547 TOP 75 MEDIAN $321 Net income (fiscal 1995) (in millions) 1 NationsBank $1,942.0 2 First Union 1,403.8 3 Duke Power 665.6 4 Wachovia 602.5 5 Carolina Power & Light 363.0 6 Nucor 274.5 7 Jefferson-Pilot 273.0 8 Lowe's 226.0 9 Collins & Aikman 206.4 10 Southern National 178.1 TOP 75 MEDIAN $10.5 Shareholders' equity (fiscal 1995) (in millions) 1 NationsBank $12,759 2 First Union 8,860 3 Duke Power 4,785 4 Wachovia 3,774 5 Carolina Power & Light 2,575 6 Jefferson-Pilot 2,156 7 Lowe's 1,657 8 Southern National 1,604 9 Nucor 1,382 10 Food Lion 1,103 TOP 75 MEDIAN $140 Dividend yield (1995 dividend to 5/20/96 price) 1 Factory Stores of America 20.6% 2 Winston Hotels 8.3 3 Summit Properties 8.1 4 Tanger Factory Outlet Centers 8.0 5 Highwoods Properties 6.1 6 Lance 5.8 7 Public Service of N.C. 5.2 8 Ingles Markets 5.0 9 Piedmont Natural Gas 5.0 10 Carolina Power & Light 4.8 TOP 75 MEDIAN 1.1% Sales growth (fiscal 1995) 1 Glenayre Technologies 86.7% 2 Quintiles Transnational 73.7 3 MedCath 54.9 4 Tanger Factory Outlet Centers 49.2 5 Cree Research 48.8 6 Seer Technologies 41.7 7 Vanguard Cellular Systems 40.5 8 Medic Computer Systems 33.6 9 Pharmaceutical Product Development 32.6 10 Martin Marietta Materials 32.4 TOP 75 MEDIAN 11.5% Net profit margin (fiscal 1995) 1 Winston Hotels 47.7% 2 Highwoods Properties 31.4 3 Speedway Motorsports 25.7 4 Glenayre Technologies 23.8 5 Summit Properties 15.8 6 Duke Power 14.2 7 Carolina Power & Light 12.1 8 Tanger Factory Outlet Centers 12.1 9 Medic Computer Systems 10.8 10 Martin Marietta Materials 10.2 TOP 75 MEDIAN 5.3% Return on average equity (fiscal 1995) 1 Coca-Cola Bottling 28.8% 2 Regional Acceptance 24.7 3 Glenayre...