Ingram's July 2026

Corporate Report 100

The Numbers Behind the Numbers Every year, the Corporate Report 100 takes a snapshot of the region’s fastest-growing com panies over a rolling three-year window. Line up the last four editions and the snapshots become a movie: together, the 2023 through 2026 classes span fiscal years 2022 through 2025—the pandemic shock, the stimulus-fueled rebound, and the long settling-out that followed. A few things the master data tell us about how this field has evolved:

As a group, this year’s 100 grew 88 percent over their window. Combined revenue for the 2026 class rose from $22.4 billion in 2022 to $42.1 billion in 2025—an aggregate gain of 88 percent. The comparable aggregate figures: 74 percent for the 2023 class, 124 percent for 2024, and 104 percent for 2025. (Aggregate growth is weighted toward the largest com panies, so it runs well below the field’s median.) The list still has room for the little guys. The smallest qualifier in each of the four cycles reported final year revenue between roughly $1.1 million and $2.0 million. The median honoree in the 2026 class books $35.2 million—larger than the 2024 ($22.9 million) and 2025 ($28.4 million) medians, but still below 2023’s $40.5 million. The typical honoree is decelerating, too. Median three-year growth across the full field ran 135 percent in the 2023 edition and 140 percent in 2024, then fell to 98 percent in 2025 and 86 percent in 2026. Fewer than half of this year’s honorees (43 of 100) at least doubled revenue over their window, down from 73 of 100 in the 2024 class.

Turnover is the rule, persistence the exception. Roughly 55 of this year’s 100 honorees also appeared on the 2025 list—the highest year-over year retention of the period. But only about 17 members of the 2023 class have survived to the 2026 list, and just nine companies appear in all four editions. The bank invasion is the biggest compositional shift in the field. By our count, the 2023 list included no banks and the 2024 list just two (BankofOdessaandCrossFirstBank). The 2025 class carried 17 bank or bank-holding-company honorees, and the 2026 class carries 26—fully a quarter of the entire list, reflecting genuine momentum in community banking. The view from the top has come down the most. The 2023 No. 1, Cargo Quotes, posted growth of roughly 5,289 percent off a small 2019 base. The 2024 leader, eHawk, grew about 2,327 percent. The past two cycles have been an order of magnitude tamer: Lula Smarter Property Main tenance topped the 2025 list at 723 percent, and benefitbay leads the 2026 class at 874 percent.

The bar to make the list has fallen by nearly half. The No. 100 company in the 2023 edition needed 52.7 percent growth over its three-year window. The cutoff peaked at 77.3 percent in 2024, measured off the pandemic-through base year, eased to 54.8 percent in 2025, and stands at 48.0 percent for the 2026 class— the lowest of the four cycles. Aggregate revenues: $42.1 billion and climbing again. The 2026 class booked combined final-year revenue of $42.1 billion, up from $34.0 billion for the 2025 class and $26.9 billion for 2024. The 2023 class’s $61.2 billion total is an outlier: Dairy Farmers of America alone accounted for $24.5 billion of it. Strip DFA out and the 2023 aggregate was $36.7 billion— making 2026 the largest ‘true’ field of the four cycles. Ten members of the 2026 class top $1 billion in revenue. That’s up from eight in 2023, six in 2024 and nine in 2025. The largest company on this year’s list by revenue is Security Benefit at $11.8 billion, alongside names like Cable Dahmer Auto Group ($3.7 billion), Lockton, Polsinelli, HNTB, Garney and Terracon. Past cycles’ giants: DFA ($24.5 billion, 2023), Burns & McDonnell ($7.4 billion, 2024) and AMC Entertainment ($4.6 billion, 2025).

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July 2026