ET 500: Methodology of arriving at the ranking

1. Companies have been ranked on the basis of their total income (or revenue) in the last fiscal. The cut-off data is August 31, 2014. The financial results of companies for periods other than 12 months have been annualised.

2. Companies with a market capitalisation of over Rs 100 crore are eligible to be considered for ET500 listing.

3. To qualify for ET500, companies must trade for at least 75% of the total traded days during the three months to the cut-off date.

4. Revenue, profit after tax (PAT), and market capitalisation is sourced from the ETIG database.

5. Total assets, return on capital employed (RoCE), and return on assets (RoA) are sourced from Capitaline

6. Market capitalisation is the average figure for the month of August 2014.

7. Consolidated financials were considered where available.

8. Reported revenue for trading companies is calculated by deducting the cost of traded goods from total income.

9. LP stands for prior year’s loss turned into profit this year. PL denotes prior year’s profit turned into loss. LL indicates loss in both the years.



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