DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2009--
Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and
supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within
the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets, today announced
that it has been named among the 200 Best Small Companies by Forbes
Magazine, ranking 49th in sales growth, 90th in
earnings per share growth and 104th overall.
“We are pleased to once again be recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of
the ‘Best Small Companies’ in America,” commented Dr. Keh-Shew
Lu, President and Chief Executive Officer of Diodes Incorporated. “Having
been named to the list for six consecutive years, we are very proud that
our growth and financial achievements continue to be recognized by one
of the most widely respected business and financial news organizations.”
According to Forbes, the list of the 200 best small companies is
compiled based upon a review of both sales and earnings growth. Company
candidates must have annual revenue between $5 million and $750 million,
be publicly traded for at least one year and have a stock price no lower
than $5. Rankings are based on earnings growth, sales growth and return
on equity over the past 12 months and five years. Forbes also compared
the stock performance of each company with that of its peers. Shares of
last year's companies that were listed outpaced the Russell Index by 10
percentage points.
About Diodes Incorporated
Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq:DIOD), a Standard and Poor’s SmallCap 600
and Russell 3000 Index company, is a leading global manufacturer and
supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within
the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets, serving the
consumer electronics, computing, communications, industrial and
automotive markets. Diodes' products include diodes, rectifiers,
transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, functional specific arrays,
amplifiers and comparators, Hall-effect sensors and temperature sensors,
power management devices including LED drivers, DC-DC switching
regulators, linear voltage regulators and voltage references, along with
special function devices including USB power switch, load switch,
voltage supervisor and motor controllers. The Company's corporate
headquarters is located in Dallas, Texas. A sales, marketing,
engineering and logistics office is located in Westlake Village,
California. Design centers are located in Dallas; San Jose, California;
Taipei, Taiwan; Manchester, England and Neuhaus, Germany. The Company's
wafer fabrication facilities are located in Kansas City, Missouri and
Manchester; with two manufacturing facilities located in Shanghai,
China, another in Neuhaus, and a joint venture facility located in
Chengdu, China. Additional engineering, sales, warehouse and logistics
offices are located in Taipei; Hong Kong; Manchester and Munich,
Germany, with support offices located throughout the world. For further
information, including SEC filings, visit the Company's website at http://www.diodes.com.
Recent news releases, annual reports and SEC filings are available at
the Company's website: http://www.diodes.com.
Written requests may be sent directly to the Company, or they may be
e-mailed to: diodes-fin@diodes.com.
Source: Diodes Incorporated
Company Contact:
Diodes Incorporated
Carl Wertz,
805-446-4800
VP, Finance and Investor Relations
E: carl_wertz@diodes.com
or
Investor
Contact:
Shelton Group
Leanne K. Sievers, 949-224-3874
EVP,
Investor Relations
E: lsievers@sheltongroup.com
