Ingram's July 2026

Corporate Report 100

roughly $400 million by 2024-25 as hospitals stopped paying premium rates for travel nurses once the staffing crisis passed. Mortgage-dependent community banks tell the mirror-image version of the same rate story: NBKC Bank and Central Bank of Kansas City both posted sharp revenue declines in the 2020-2023 window as the identical rate hikes that starved small business borrowers of cheap capital also vaporized refinance volume on the other side of their balance sheets. That mortgage-vs.-margin split isn’t just a pattern buried in the growth-rate math—it’s visible in plain sight on this year’s finished roster. Banks and bank holding companies account for 27 of the 100 companies on the 2026 CR100 list, comfortably the single largest industry cluster on the entire roster. That’s a sharp break from recent history: banks held just 4 spots on the 2021 list and 9 on the 2022 list, dipped to only 2 in 2024, then jumped to 18 in 2025 before this year’s 27. The multi-year gap between when the Fed started raising rates and when bank representation on the list actually took off fits a net-interest-margin story that needed a couple of years of compounding before it showed up in three-year growth figures. The marquee example: Bison State Bank, which landed at No. 4 overall after growing revenue from $2.5 million in 2022 to $11.8 million in 2025—roughly a 69 percent annual growth rate off a small base. Put the pieces together and a single theme connects them: the earlier cohorts caught the up-cycle of pandemic-era stimulus and free money on the way in, and the more recent cohorts are living through the down-cycle of the same forces—inflation quietly eating into the meaning of “growth,” then rate hikes cutting off the capital and cooling the demand that fueled the earlier boom in the first place. The fastest-growing companies haven’t lost their ambition. They’ve lost the tailwind—even as, on the evidence of this year’s list, a very different set of companies has picked up a tailwind of its own. The 2023 baseline cohort doesn’t yet have a full three-year runway to confirm the trend—only two years of follow-on data exist so far—but what’s there points the same direction rather than a reversal: a median two-year growth rate of 10.4 percent and nearly 19 percent of companies already showing declines, both roughly in line with the softer 2021 and 2022 cohorts rather than a return to 2019-2020 form.

Corporate Report 100 No. 1 Companies (1986-2026) Over four decades of publishing the Corporate Report 100, Ingram’s has learned that rapid growth is both one of busi ness’s greatest ambitions—and one of its greatest tests. This list celebrates companies that have mastered a particular mo ment—those that discovered an opportunity, executed brilliantly and grew at a pace few competitors could match. But the history of our No. 1 companies also demonstrates that growth itself is never the finish line. Many of the organizations that once topped these rankings have disappeared through acquisition, consolida tion or market disruption. Others evolved into entirely different enterprises, changed ownership, relocated or simply could not sustain the extraordinary momentum that got them here:

United Telecommunications (Sprint predecessor)

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Innovative Software Wrenn Insurance Group Hall-Kimbrell Environmental

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TouchFax Information Systems

MacHardware, Inc.

Empower Trainers & Consultants Spencer Reed /Personnel Connection

J.M. Neil & Associates Intermedia Media Works Innovision Corporation

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RiverPoint Group

Inergy, LP

Freightquote.com RED Development

Sunlight Saunas (Sunlighten)

Evolv Solutions

Nextaff

Acceleration, LLC

SFP Specialty Fertilizer Products BATS Global Markets (now Cboe)

Rhythm Engineering

Nextaff

The Logistics Store Pendo Management Co.

Foodlinks, Inc.

40 Digits

Vazquez Commercial Contracting

Aratana Therapeutics Dynamic Logistix

Amply Media

Sethmar Transportation Hawaiian Bros Island Grill

CargoQuotes eHawk Solutions

Lula Smarter Property Management

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