Criteria
Publicly traded companies in the Houston area are ranked using four performance criteria for 2018. The final ranking score is based on the average of the rankings for these criteria: total revenue, annual growth in earnings per share, annual revenue growth and one-year total return.
A full explanation of how the companies were ranked is available on the Houston Chronicle website:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/chron-100/article/How-the-rankings-were-determined-13950215.php