Aviation Week Announces Top Performing Companies

NEW YORK, May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw Hill Financial's Aviation Week announced that Boeing, Dassault Aviation and Cubic Corp. were ranked as the Top-Performing Companies in its 2013 study. The annual study is a leading benchmark that ranks the operational performance of publicly traded aerospace and defense (A&D) companies worldwide.  The study, sponsored by PwC, is now in its 19^th year.

This year's rankings of 58 companies were unveiled in Aviation Week & Space Technology's May 27^th issue and posted online at www.aviationweek.com/tpc. Aviation Week will host a ceremony on June 18 at the Paris air show in Le Bourget, France, to recognize this year's winners, which are:

• Boeing, which ranked first among 10 companies with revenues greater than $20 billion. It was Boeing's second consecutive win
• Dassault Aviation, which placed first among 17 companies with revenues between $5-20 billion
• Cubic Corporation, which claimed the top spot among companies with revenues between $1-5 billion

Results of this year's study were vetted by a team of nine industry experts, including Scott Thompson, a PwC partner and leader of the firm's U.S. A&D practice.  "Aviation Week's Top-Performing Companies study uses rigorous propriety criteria to look under the hood at the operational performance of the A&D industry's companies," said Editor-in-Chief Joseph C. Anselmo. "The results of the year's study also reveal that rising commercial sales at Airbus and Boeing more than made up for a softening of the defense market last year."

Additionally, this year Aviation Week will recognize consistent top performers by honoring companies with the best average score during the past five years. Those honorees are:

• Lockheed Martin, for companies with revenue greater than $20 billion
• Precision Castparts, ranked highest in the $5-20 billion category
• Rockwell Collins was the leader in the $1-5 billion category

Aviation Week's highly regarded Top-Performing Companies study identifies relative strengths and weaknesses in Aerospace and Defense companies' operational performance and evaluates how well they are executing business strategies. Proprietary metrics have been refined with input from industry leaders.

To read the articles, methodology and view rankings, visit Aviation Week's Top-Performing Companies website, sponsored by PwC at http://aviationweek.com/tpc. Detailed charts for each company and rankings of more than 100 A&D business segments are available to subscribers of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network at http://aviationweek.com/awin. View the on demand TPC webinar at http://aviationweek.com/events. The TPC awards ceremony at the Paris air show will be held at Aviation Week's chalet D38.

About Aviation Week:

Aviation Week, a division of McGraw Hill Financial, is the largest multimedia information and services provider for the global aviation, aerospace and defense industries. Industry professionals rely on Aviation Week for analysis, marketing and intelligence. Customers include the world's leading manufacturers, suppliers, airlines, militaries, governments and other organizations that serve this global market. Aviation Week produces data and analytics services including the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN), industry-leading events around the world, as well as ShowNews and Business & Commercial Aviation.

On July 2, 2012, the group's flagship Aviation Week & Space Technology (AW&ST) relaunched with an even greater focus on technology, business and operations that has long been the brand's hallmark.  In addition to civil, military and space, AW&ST's market coverage is further expanded with new monthly Defense Technology and MRO editions to include land and sea and aftermarket insights. 

Aviation Week's 2012 digital expansion includes a redesigned AviationWeek.com for deeper community engagement and navigation and a comprehensive technology upgrade to the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN).  AWIN, the industry's essential integrated business tool, now has increased capability through more fleet and MRO data and an expanded team of data analysts.

About McGraw Hill Financial:
McGraw Hill Financial (NYSE: MHFI), a financial intelligence company, is a leader in credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics for the global capital and commodity markets. Iconic brands include: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Platts, CRISIL, J.D. Power & Associates, McGraw Hill Construction and Aviation Week. The Company has approximately 17,000 employees in 27 countries. Additional information is available at www.mhfi.com.

SOURCE Aviation Week