São Paulo – A Vale é a única empresa brasileira no ranking das 100 que mais cresceram em toda a América, segundo pesquisa da Fortune. De acordo com a lista, a mineradora do Brasil teve um crescimento médio nos últimos três anos de 45% em resultados, 29% em faturamento, tendo um resultado geral maior em 7%.

No ranking, a Vale aparece em 97º lugar, masquem lidera é a mineradora americana Silver Wheaton lidera a lista, com um crescimento total médio de 49% e um aumento de lucro médio de nada menos que 350% nos últimos três anos. 

Empresas de tecnologia são as de maior presença na pesquisa. Entre elas, a americana Apple aparece em sexto lugar com um crescimento médio total de 60% de 2010 a 2012. Veja a lista completa a seguir:

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Rank ▾	Empresa	Aumento dos ganhos	Aumento de receita	Retorno total
1	Silver Wheaton	340%	76%	49%
2	Cirrus Logic	450%	39%	88%
3	Baidu	99%	72%	56%
4	HollyFrontier	93%	51%	64%
5	HFF	341%	41%	53%
6	lululemon athletica	81%	45%	109%
7	Northern Oil and Gas	122%	237%	36%
8	Apple	70%	52%	60%
9	IPG Photonics	100%	37%	58%
10	RPC	121%	38%	50%
11	Catamaran	52%	72%	98%
12	3D Systems	272%	26%	112%
13	Impax Laboratories	85%	43%	40%
14	priceline.com	66%	33%	81%
15	Coinstar	74%	43%	37%
16	Bridgepoint Education	187%	57%	9%
17	Alexion Pharmaceuticals	34%	43%	69%
18	American Equity Investment Life	87%	42%	27%
19	Epoch Holding	53%	41%	45%
20	51job	89%	25%	57%
21	Warner Chilcott	72%	51%	23%
22	Hi-Tech Pharmacal	69%	29%	54%
23	Pan American Silver	241%	44%	-2%
24	ZAGG	71%	104%	17%
25	United Therapeutics	195%	42%	6%

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Rank ▾	Empresa	Aumento dos ganhos	Aumento de receita	Retorno total
26	Wynn Resorts	81%	26%	53%
27	Gulfport Energy	89%	26%	44%
28	Questcor Pharmaceuticals	32%	34%	120%
29	Pioneer Natural Resources	95%	23%	51%
30	TransGlobe Energy	40%	38%	50%
31	OYO Geospace	98%	22%	52%
32	Concho Resources	25%	63%	44%
33	MarketAxess Holdings	79%	27%	43%
34	Cliffs Natural Resources	71%	35%	28%
35	Green Mountain Coffee Roasters	78%	78%	3%
36	TPC Group	60%	24%	111%
37	Acme Packet	65%	43%	23%
38	TTM Technologies	105%	40%	6%
39	SciClone Pharmaceuticals	60%	32%	40%
40	Darling International	52%	37%	36%
41	MercadoLibre	59%	30%	42%
42	Hollysys Automation Technologies	110%	32%	14%
43	Opentable	81%	40%	14%
44	Triumph Group	28%	50%	42%
45	Netgear	131%	23%	34%
46	Medifast	59%	40%	20%
47	IAMGOLD	421%	28%	7%
48	Silvercorp Metals	48%	47%	18%
49	Ultratech	84%	25%	37%
50	Intuitive Surgical	41%	28%	50%

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Rank	Empresa	Aumento dos ganhos	Aumento de receita	Retorno total
51	Under Armour	37%	27%	62%
52	VMware	37%	30%	49%
53	F5 Networks	54%	27%	42%
54	Gentex	83%	28%	24%
55	Coherent	325%	21%	28%
56	Steven Madden	45%	29%	41%
57	Riverbed Technology	85%	32%	12%
58	Ascena Retail Group	38%	33%	38%
59	Materion	86%	30%	11%
60	AmTrust Financial Services	28%	34%	40%
61	ExlService Holdings	53%	30%	30%
62	EZchip Semiconductor	43%	31%	35%
63	Grand Canyon Education	68%	37%	8%
64	BorgWarner	189%	20%	24%
65	Internet Initiative Japan	55%	25%	40%
66	Titan Machinery	33%	34%	34%
67	Rackspace Hosting	45%	25%	47%
68	Cymer	99%	21%	26%
69	Clean Harbors	43%	31%	28%
70	Whiting Petroleum	66%	25%	33%
71	Investors Bancorp	42%	38%	18%
72	NetApp	102%	24%	17%
73	Chipotle Mexican Grill	41%	20%	68%
74	Buenaventura Mining	53%	32%	18%
75	Lam Research	47%	37%	13%

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Ranking	Empresa	Aumento dos ganhos	Aumento de receita	Retorno total
76	SolarWinds	31%	30%	38%
77	Barrick Gold	90%	27%	5%
78	Broadcom	126%	23%	11%
79	East West Bancorp	31%	24%	55%
80	MWI Veterinary Supply	29%	28%	43%
81	NetEase	29%	41%	19%
82	IMAX	22%	28%	44%
83	SVB Financial	70%	23%	29%
84	AsiaInfo-Linkage	34%	51%	-12%
85	Cognizant Technology Solutions	27%	32%	31%
86	Fossil	42%	21%	47%
87	Ebix	33%	32%	24%
88	Semtech	78%	25%	15%
89	3SBio	36%	33%	18%
90	Encore Capital Group	56%	23%	31%
91	Celgene	47%	30%	10%
92	HMS Holdings	25%	27%	35%
93	Tempur-Pedic International	62%	21%	21%
94	Southern Copper	49%	24%	23%
95	Rush Enterprises	63%	24%	11%
96	Affiliated Managers Group	40%	26%	23%
97	Vale	45%	29%	7%
98	Super Micro Computer	29%	28%	27%
99	Electro Rent	32%	26%	25%
100	Portfolio Recovery	31%	23%	33%

Fonte: Fortune