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Criteria for Sectorial Rankings
Power Rankings:
The Power Ranking presents the 100
leading companies in the economy according to three
components: revenue; employees; and net profit.
Each parameter is given aweightedmarkaccording to
the company's data over the past three years.
The companies ranked in the Power Ranking are from
the following sectors: industry, service and trade (in-
cluding leasing), high-tech, real estate, banks, and
insurance groups.
Holding& InvestmentCompanies:
by equity and rank-
ing table by balance sheet. A company with negative
equity will not be included in the rankings.
Commercial Banks:
by total assets.
Insurance Groups:
calculated according to the follow-
ing components: 1. Total assetsmanaged in pension
funds; 2.Total assetsmanaged in provident funds; 3.
Total balance sheet assets; 4. Income derived from
long-terms savings management fees; 5. Gross pre-
miums earned.
Insurance Agencies:
by income from commission
fees.
Investment Houses:
by total investment portfolio,
divided according to the following components: 1.
Portfolios Managed; 2. Mutual Funds; 3. Exchange-
Traded Funds (ETF); 4. Provident Funds.
Underwriting Companies:
listed according to the
number of offerings in which the underwriting com-
panies took part of as distribution managers and the
overall number of offerings.
Independent Trading Arenas (Forex):
According to
the following components: 1. Number of company
employees; 2. Number of employees handling Israeli
activity; 3. Number of active traders in Israel; 4. Total
money net raised annually in Israel (millions of dol-
lars); 5. Average monthly deal turnover (millions of
dollars); 6. Part of a global group.
Industrial Companies:
by sales volume.
Kibbutz Industry Enterprises: by sales volume.
Trade Companies:
by operating revenue.
Service Companies:
by operating revenue.
Construction, Development, and Infrastructure Com-
panies:
by income derived fromconstruction and de-
velopment and infrastructures.
Two secondary rankings are presented: infrastruc-
tures, construction and development, where the
company’s secondary ranking is determined by its
basic area of specialization, which represents its
principle income.
Real Estate Development Companies:
ranking is only
for companies traded on stockexchanges.The ranking
is calculated from several factors: 1. By assets from
development activities; 2. Total real estate inventory
(regular assets + irregular assets) including land re-
serves, apartments' inventory and buildings for sale;
3. Debt ratio to capital – Financial debt (gross) / (Total
equity + financial debt (gross)).
Income Producing Real Estate:
ranking is calculated
from the following components: 1. Income producing
property income; 2. ConsolidatedNOI; 3. Income from
income producing real estate per square meter; 4.
FFO; 5. Total assets; 6. Total capital divided by total
assets;
Hotel Real Estate:
ranking is calculated according to
the following three components: 1. Hotels' operat-
ing income; 2. Number of rooms; 3. Average income
per room;
Real Estate Consulting:
ranking according to the num-
ber of professional employees.
Real Estate Appraisers:
ranking according to the
following components: 1. Number of appraisers; 2.
Volume of appraisals.
Architects Firms:
by number of architects and archi-
tectural engineers employed.
Engineering Offices:
by number of professional em-
ployees in the engineering sector employed by the
company, and secondary rankings for engineering
design offices, project management offices, offices
including planning and project management.
Law Firms:
by number of lawyers employed by the
firm as of 31.12.15.
Law Firms by Niche Practice:
presenting leading law
firms in a range of practice areas. Ranking of firms
are based on estimates, among other things, of data
gathered on: substantial cases, large clients, prec-
edent setting rulings, professional publications and
searching interviewswith leading figures in every sec-
tor and with key customers.
Patent Attorneys:
according to several components:
1. Number of patent lawyers; 2. Number of profes-
sional employees, total academic professional em-
ployees employed by the firm to provide professional
services in the field of patent attorneys; 3. Number
of requests filed in Israel and abroad; 4. Number of
PCTs filed; 5. Main clients.
Accountancy Firms:
by several components:
1. Number of accountants; 2. Number of academic
professional employees; 3. Number of companies
audited; 4. Companies in an international network;
5. Number of publicly-traded companies audited, and
their size TASE, Nasdaq, and AIM).
In addition, a ranking is presented according to: 1.
Consultancy activities; 2. Number of publicly traded
companies on TASE, Nasdaq, and AIMwhich the firm
audits their financial reports; 3. Number of Tel Aviv
100 Index companies internally audited.
Leasing & Vehicle Rental Companies:
by balance
sheet, as well as two sub-ratings: financing leasing
and operational leasing.
Freight Forwarders & Customs Brokers:
according to
gross freight forwarding income, Approved Economic
Organization (AEO) status, and existing agreements
with international freight forwarding companies.
Local Authorities:
(Municipalities) based on five com-
ponents: 1. Rate of surplus/deficit in the ordinary
budget; 2. Property tax collection rate; 3. Ratio of
grants to regular budget; 4. Ratio of businesses to
residents; 5. Socioeconomic ranking.
Health Funds:
by total income from activities.
Sheltered Housing:
by number of residential units.
The Best High-Tech Companies to Work For:
The ranking presents the Israeli high-tech companies,
which were selected as the best to work for accord-
ing to a comprehensive survey amongmanagers and
employees in the sector with four components: 1.
Salary and benefit terms; 2. Employment security;
3. Work environment experience; 4. Overall career
development.
General
Companieswith a score of 16 or lesswere not ranked
according to Dun & Bradstreet's ranking model.
Companies with a "going concern" warning were not
ranked (subject to Dun & Bradstreet's discretion).
Sales volume and operating income are as per com-
pany financial reports.
Exports/OverseasSales
– includes exports of goods
and services from Israel and sales of subsidiaries
abroad.
Exchange Rate
– figures that were presented in for-
eign currency were converted according to the aver-
age rate in 2015. Figures for equity and assets were
converted according to the currency exchange rate as
of December 31, 2015.
Figures for Net Profit and Equity
– the figures shown
do not include those with minority rights.
Reporting Period:
All figures are for the year ending
December 31, 2015.
Holding & Investment Groups -
Companies included
are companies whose independent activities repre-
sent less than 25% of their income and the holding
in the company when consolidated is above a rate of
25% with a trend towards control.
Industrial Companies -
Industrial companies are com-
panies which meet the following criteria:
1. The company is registered in Israel.
2. Over 50%of income derives fromproduction activi-
ties by the company and subsidiaries in its control.
Service&Trade Companies -
Service &Trade Compa-
nies meet the following criteria:
1. The company is registered in Israel.
2. Over 50%of income does not derive fromproduc-
tion activities.
It is important to note that the rankings of service
and trade companies do not include financial and
financing companies such as banks and insurance
companies as well as construction, development
and real estate companies. These companies have
a separate ranking.
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2016
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DUN’S
100
DUN’S
100
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2016
DUN’S
100
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2016
2016
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DUN’S
100