Fortune Small Business is out with its annual FSB 100 list, which measures the fastest growing (by revenues) publicly-traded small business listed on U.S. exchanges. As always, it is both fascinating and frustrating.

Though the FSB 100 has many intriguing prospects, it is horribly laid out and almost impossible to assess in the format provided. For example, there’s no way on the FSB site to get a handle on the market cap of the list except one company at a time. It's another instance of a layout designed to generate unnecessary page views (and advertisement cpm’s) at the cost of reader convenience.

Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

March 3, 2009 9:00 am ET

So much of the sentiment is negative right now, I set out to find some companies that have been doing things right. Having a high EBITDA growth rate means the company is growing nicely either internally or through acquisition. The low debt means that the companies are well positioned financially, which is important in this tumultuous time. And, finally, the high ROC shows that the company used its shareholders’ money well and is providing them an excellent return. Putting all of these qualities together means a company had a successful year in an awful environment.

The Performance Bargains screen

Q3 2008 Earnings Call

November 4, 2008 9:00 a.m. ET

Q2 2008 Earnings Call

August 6, 2008 2:30 pm ET

Stocks discussed in the in-depth session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV program, Friday June 13.

Ready for a Rally: Wells Fargo (WFC), JP Morgan (JPM), Research In Motion (RIMM), Salesforce.com (CRM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Google (GOOG), IBM (IBM), Ingersoll-Rand (IR), Emerson (EMR), Eaton (ETN), L-3 (LLL), Owens Corning (OC), Toll Brothers (TOL), Costco (COST), Wal-Mart (WMT), Jones Apparel (JNY), VF Corp (VFC)

Sun Hydraulics Corporation (SNHY)

Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

Q4 2007 Earnings Call

March, 5 2008 4:00 pm ET

Founded in 1970, the small cap designs and sells proprietary screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves and manifolds that are used in all sorts of industrial and mobile operations. The company’s product lineup is sold through a global network of distributors.

Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: With Friday marking the end of the second quarter, we have done some index and stock based research to put the market environment of the first half of 2007 into perspective.

A list of the best and worst performing stocks at the halfway mark this year can provide momentum and contrarian investors with possible trade ideas going forward. (It can also make you think "Why didn't I buy that stock" or "I'm glad I don't own that one."

SNHY products go into manufacturing capital equipment (historically about 34% of sales) such as metal cutting, injection molding, and metal forming machinery. Other users of hydraulic equipment include bulldozers and construction equipment and oil drilling and mining equipment.

In a recent Wall Street Transcript interview with the CEO Allen Carlsen, he described the hydraulics industry as a $20 billion industry of which screw-in hydraulic valves represents about a $1 billion market.

Specifically, the screw-in hydraulic cartridge valve is a newer hydraulic technology that is taking market share from conventional hydraulic valves. They can be product specific and help to differentiate and improve the end product and, in addition, represent a more cost-effective solution as they are faster and more reliable. Another technological trend is the integration of electronics into hydraulic applications and SNHY also has products which can be driven by electronic controls. Screw-in cartridge valves represent a miniaturization of hydraulic valves.