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Bloomberg Businessweek The Year Ahead 2019 50 Companies to Watch

44 Tableau Software Inc. ▲ DATA US

Est. EPS
Software Est. sales 800% Total 12-month 1-year total Female board
sales
growth
membership
assets
growth
return
20%
10%
31.6%
$993m
$1.5b
Tableau, known for its chart applications and analytics market. That’s sure to boost sales. Demand for the
dashboards, is broadening its product line to include company’s established products will remain strong.
data cleanup and machine learning tools, enabling it to
compete in the wider data-warehousing and reporting
45 Tesla Inc. ▲ TSLA US
Est. sales Est. EPS Total 12-month 1-year total Female board
growth growth assets sales return membership
Autos 91.2% N/M $28b $13.6b 1.7% 22.2%

CEO Elon Musk can’t tweet away Tesla’s problems. The
fix-it list is long. Tesla must address operational, capacity,
and liquidity needs, rebuild a credible management team,
and wean itself off its reliance on income statement and
balance-sheet maneuvers, all while facing a lower price-
to-sales mix as it produces more of the cheaper Model 3.

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◀ Tesla Model 3 factory
46 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ▲ TEVA IT

Est. sales Est. EPS Total 12-month 1-year total Female board
Pharma growth -22.4% $67b sales return membership
assets
growth
26.7%
-12.1%
$20.8b
47%
Teva has a drug pipeline full of growth opportunities opportunity. Ajovy is one of the most significant migraine
starting in 2019. Austedo, a possible treatment for advances in decades. These launches may help offset the
Tourette’s syndrome for which trial data may come in the loss—worth about $2 billion—of exclusivity for Teva’s best-
first half of next year, represents a potential $1 billion-plus selling Copaxone, a drug for multiple sclerosis.

47 Vodafone Group Plc ▼ VOD LN

Est. sales Est. EPS Total 12-month 1-year total Female board FROM LEFT: BALAZS GARDI/BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK; DARIO PIGNATELLI/BLOOMBERG
Telecom growth 1.5% assets sales return membership
growth
-29.6%
41.7%
$179b
$55b
-2.5%
Vodafone is set to become the largest fixed/mobile also complicates the picture. Nevertheless, patience may
carrier in Europe if its deal with Liberty Global is pay off as Vodafone commands strong mobile network
approved. The company will have to cope with rising quality and has already developed significant capabilities
competition and weakening revenue growth. A new to bundle its services.
CEO—Nick Read succeeded Vittorio Colao in October—