Canada's 100 biggest companies by return on equity
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Return on common equity (ROCE) tells you how much profit a company is generating for each dollar that shareholders have invested in the business. The average of annual returns over five years reduces the impact of a stellar year or a lousy one.
| Rank | Company and Year-end | ROCE 1-yr % | ROCE 5-yr % |
| 1 | General Donlee Canada(De10) | 163.9 | 88.4 |
| 2 | Heritage Oil(De10) 1 | 161.7 | 0.8 |
| 3 | Craig Wireless Systems(Au10) | 144.6 | |
| 4 | Athabasca Oil Sands(De10) | 134.1 | |
| 5 | Wellpoint Systems(De09) | 129.6 | -50.8 |
| 6 | Cardiome Pharma(De10) 1 | 118.7 | -32.3 |
| 7 | Sprott Inc.(De10) | 90.6 | |
| 8 | Carfinco Income Fund(De10) | 77.2 | 33.1 |
| 9 | High Arctic Energy Services(De10) | 69.2 | -200.6 |
| 10 | Boyd Group Income Fund(De10) | 63.5 | 11.3 |
| 11 | CMP Gold Trust(De10) 5 | 63.5 | |
| 12 | Labrador Iron Ore Royalty(De10) | 60.9 | 34.6 |
| 13 | Brookfield Office Properties(De10) | 60.1 | |
| 14 | Pinetree Capital(De10) | 60.0 | 13.3 |
| 15 | Cardero Resource(Oc10) | 58.6 | -9.5 |
| 16 | Park Lawn(De10) | 57.6 | 86.0 |
| 17 | TVI Pacific(De10) | 54.1 | |
| 18 | MKS Inc.(Ap10) 1 | 53.9 | 24.8 |
| 19 | Ultra Petroleum(De10) 1 | 52.0 | 23.3 |
| 20 | Gluskin Sheff + Associates(Ju10) | 51.1 | 82.0 |
| 21 | Garda World Security(Ja11) | 51.0 | -18.1 |
| 22 | Scorpio Mining(De10) | 50.7 | -12.5 |
| 23 | Mad Catz Interactive(Ma10) 1 | 50.3 | -17.0 |
| 24 | Computer Modelling Group(Ma10) | 49.8 | 45.8 |
| 25 | Tim Hortons(Ja11) | 47.9 | 35.2 |
| 26 | Canadian Zinc(De10) | 46.4 | 0.9 |
| 27 | Global Railway Industries(De10) | 45.0 | 7.8 |
| 28 | Silver Standard Resources(De10) 1 | 44.4 | 7.5 |
| 29 | Strathmore Minerals(De10) | 43.8 | -6.9 |
| 30 | Lipari Energy(De10) 1 | 43.7 |
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