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Company Ticker Symbol 2011 Rank 2010 Assets
(in mil.)
2010 Rank 2009 Assets
(in mil.)
1-year rank change 1-year percent change 2010 percent return on assets
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U.S. Bancorp USB 1 307,786.0 1 281,176.0 0 9.5 1.1
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Ameriprise Financial Inc. AMP 2 131,192.0 2 113,774.0 0 15.3 0.8
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UnitedHealth Group Inc. UNH 3 63,063.0 3 59,045.0 0 6.8 7.3
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Target Corp. TGT 4 43,705.0 4 44,533.0 0 -1.9 6.7
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Medtronic Inc. MDT 5 30,597.0 7 25,168.0 +2 21.6 10.7
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3M Co. MMM 6 30,156.0 5 27,250.0 -1 10.7 13.5
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Xcel Energy Inc. XEL 7 27,387.7 6 25,488.4 -1 7.5 2.7
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TCF Financial Corp. TCB 8 18,465.0 10 17,885.2 +2 3.2 0.8
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General Mills Inc. GIS 9 18,378.5 8 18,561.0 -1 -1.0 8.9
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Best Buy Co. Inc. BBY 10 17,849.0 9 18,302.0 -1 -2.5 7.2
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Supervalu Inc. SVU 11 14,453.0 11 17,174.0 0 -15.8 -10.4
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Mosaic Co. MOS 12 14,199.4 12 12,278.2 0 15.6 13.7
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St. Jude Medical Inc. STJ 13 8,566.4 14 6,425.8 +1 33.3 10.6
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OneBeacon Insurance Group OB 14 6,166.7 13 7,532.0 -1 -18.1 1.9
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Ecolab Inc. ECL 15 4,872.2 17 5,020.9 +2 -3.0 10.9
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Alliant Techsystems Inc. ATK 16 4,303.7 19 3,713.3 +3 15.9 7.0
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Hormel Foods Corp. HRL 17 4,122.9 20 3,692.1 +3 11.7 10.5
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Pentair Inc. PNR 18 3,973.5 18 3,911.3 0 1.6 5.1
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Valspar Corp. VAL 19 3,851.8 21 3,375.0 +2 14.1 5.6
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Allete Inc. ALE 20 2,609.1 22 2,393.1 +2 9.0 2.9
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Patterson Cos Inc. PDCO 21 2,503.6 23 2,322.8 +2 7.8 9.0
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Piper Jaffray Cos. PJC 22 2,033.8 27 1,703.3 +5 19.4 1.2
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C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. CHRW 23 1,995.7 25 1,834.2 +2 8.8 19.4
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Regis Corp. RGS 24 1,938.5 24 1,942.3 0 -0.2 2.6
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Otter Tail Corp. OTTR 25 1,770.6 26 1,754.7 +1 0.9 -0.1
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Life Time Fitness Inc.
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LTM 26 1,718.5 28 1,631.5 +2 5.3 4.9
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Donaldson Co. Inc. DCI 27 1,595.1 30 1,374.5 +3 16.1 12.4
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Fastenal Co. FAST 28 1,468.3 32 1,327.4 +4 10.6 18.1
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Digital River Inc.
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DRIV 29 1,333.8 40 985.6 +11 35.3 2.5
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Deluxe Corp. DLX 30 1,308.7 35 1,211.2 +5 8.0 11.7
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Lawson Software Inc. LWSN 31 1,296.0 34 1,257.6 +3 3.1 5.8
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Imation Corp. IMN 32 1,251.0 29 1,393.8 -3 -10.2 -12.7
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H.B. Fuller Co. FUL 33 1,153.5 36 1,100.4 +3 4.8 6.1
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Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO) FICO 34 1,136.1 33 1,288.6 -1 -11.8 5.5
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Polaris Industries Inc. PII 35 1,061.6 44 763.7 +9 39.0 13.9
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American Medical Systems Holdings Inc. AMMD 36 1,053.4 37 1,047.2 +1 0.6 8.3
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Nash Finch Co. NAFC 37 1,050.7 39 999.5 +2 5.1 4.8
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The Toro Co. TTC 38 896.7 42 884.6 +4 1.4 11.1
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HMN Financial Inc. HMNF 39 880.6 38 1,036.2 -1 -15.0 -3.3
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G&K Services Inc.
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GKSR 40 834.6 43 836.9 +3 -0.3 3.0
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Techne Corp. TECH 41 555.6 49 502.2 +8 10.6 20.0
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Dolan Media Co. DM 42 535.8 48 528.3 +6 1.4 6.6
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Graco Inc. GGG 43 530.5 50 476.4 +7 11.3 19.4
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Northern Oil and Gas Inc. NOG 44 509.7 135.6 - 275.9 1.4
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Apogee Enterprises Inc. APOG 45 507.6 47 539.5 +2 -5.9 -2.1
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Hutchinson Technology Inc. HTCH 46 466.1 46 638.5 0 -27.0 -16.0
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Tennant Co. TNC 47 403.7 52 377.7 +5 6.9 8.6
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Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. BWLD 48 380.4 54 309.1 +6 23.1 10.1
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MTS Systems Corp. MTSC 49 349.3 51 389.3 +2 -10.3 8.0
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Arctic Cat Inc. ACAT 50 296.4 56 267.1 +6 11.0 4.4
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Digi International Inc. DGII 51 271.2 57 260.9 +6 3.9 3.7
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Capella Education Co. CPLA 52 262.6 58 231.5 +6 13.4 23.3
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Christopher & Banks Corp. CBK 53 245.5 55 271.7 +2 -9.7 -4.8
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ValueVision Media Inc. VVTV 54 238.4 60 196.2 +6 21.5 -10.9
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HickoryTech Corp. HTCO 55 230.2 59 222.5 +4 3.5 5.3
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Navarre Corp.
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NAVR 56 199.0 65 170.5 +9 16.7 6.2
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Stratasys Inc. SSYS 57 178.5 67 153.1 +10 16.5 5.3
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Datalink Corp. DTLK 58 176.1 66 156.2 +8 12.7 1.4
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SurModics Inc. SRDX 59 172.3 61 190.5 +2 -9.5 1.9
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Hawkins Inc. HWKN 60 171.7 68 144.7 +8 18.7 14.0
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Vital Images Inc. VTAL 61 170.5 64 172.1 +3 -0.9 -0.6
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Select Comfort Corp. SCSS 62 170.0 71 118.2 +9 43.7 18.6
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Rimage Corp. RIMG 63 148.0 69 140.3 +6 5.5 5.1
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Lakes Entertainment Inc. LACO 64 126.6 63 173.7 -1 -27.1 -10.9
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Multiband Corp. MBND 65 111.7 73 99.5 +8 12.2 13.2
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Communications Systems Inc. JCS 66 109.1 72 102.9 +6 6.0 8.9
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FSI International Inc. FSII 67 104.3 82 66.7 +15 56.5 10.1
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Caribou Coffee Co. Inc. CBOU 68 101.7 75 93.7 +7 8.5 9.2
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Synovis Life Technologies Inc. SYNO 69 97.5 76 93.7 +7 4.0 5.0
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Vascular Solutions Inc. VASC 70 78.5 87 51.8 +17 51.6 8.1
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Famous Dave's of America Inc. DAVE 71 76.1 80 68.4 +9 11.3 9.5
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Medtox Scientific Inc. MTOX 72 75.5 77 76.1 +5 -0.9 4.0
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Rochester Medical Corp. ROCM 73 73.6 78 76.1 +5 -3.2 -0.1
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Xata Corp. XATA 74 68.5 79 69.7 +5 -1.8 0.4
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NVE Corp. NVEC 75 67.5 86 53.4 +11 26.5 19.7
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CyberOptics Corp. CYBE 76 58.2 88 51.1 +12 13.9 5.4
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SPS Commerce Inc. SPSC 77 57.9 21.9 - 164.1 5.0
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Granite City Food & Brewery Ltd. GCFB 78 56.5 85 56.0 +7 0.8 -8.0
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Image Sensing Systems Inc. ISNS 79 54.4 91 41.2 +12 32.1 5.5
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Cardiovascular Systems Inc. CSII 80 44.7 83 63.9 +3 -30.0 -38.4
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Winmark Corp. WINA 81 42.1 84 56.8 +3 -25.8 24.5
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Nortech Systems Inc. NSYS 82 41.6 92 41.1 +10 1.1 1.2
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Appliance Recycling Centers of America ARCI 83 39.9 95 31.5 +12 26.8 4.9
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IntriCon Corp. IIN 85 36.3 93 37.4 +8 -2.9 1.8
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Digital Angel Corp. DOC 86 35.9 89 47.0 +3 -23.6 -20.3
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Mocon Inc. MOCO 87 34.3 97 30.4 +10 13.0 13.2
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Northern Technologies Intl. Corp.
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NTI 88 33.9 98 30.4 +10 11.5 9.1
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Canterbury Park Holding Corp. CPHC 89 32.6 94 31.8 +5 2.8 -3.0
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Uroplasty Inc. UPI 90 26.4 12.0 - 119.9 -14.7
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Insignia Systems Inc. ISIG 91 25.6 103 17.8 +12 43.7 29.8
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Analysts International Corp. ANLY 92 23.6 96 30.7 +4 -23.0 -2.0
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MakeMusic Inc. MMUS 93 22.6 100 20.3 +7 11.6 4.5
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Clearfield Inc.
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CLFD 94 22.1 102 19.2 +8 15.1 8.3
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Angeion Corp. ANGN 95 21.4 99 22.5 +4 -4.8 -4.0
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Electromed Inc. ELMD 96 19.5 - - 4.9
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Aetrium Inc. ATRM 97 18.5 101 19.4 +4 -4.7 -10.3
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Great Northern Iron Ore Properties GNI 99 17.4 105 16.7 +6 4.1 100.5
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WSI Industries Inc. WSCI 100 17.1 104 17.8 +4 -4.0 3.4
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Ikonics Corp. IKNX 101 13.1 109 12.0 +8 9.5 8.5
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Urologix Inc.
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ULGX 105 9.0 111 11.2 +6 -19.5 -29.3
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