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Is Albuquerque a business friendly city? Not according to MarketWatch.com. The website ranked Albuquerque 92nd among the nation’s 100 largest metros in a recent listing.

Meanwhile, five cities in neighboring states made the top 10: Dallas (no. 1), Houston (no. 7), Provo (no. 8), Oklahoma City (no.9) and Denver (no. 10).

MarketWatch rated the metro areas on a 100-point scale on 22 metrics and a 150-point scale on a 23rd (a combination of the jobless rate, personal income and gross domestic product), meaning a perfect score would have yielded 2,350 points. On each data point, the cities were ranked against each other, meaning only one city would score 100 on any given metric.

Dallas scored a total of 1,687 points, while Albuquerque came in at 806.

The metrics used were gathered from 2013 data and measured such things as business climate, performance of publicly traded companies headquartered in each city and economic conditions.

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Albuquerque ranked 49th in business climate (409 out of 800 possible points), 82nd on company performance (256 out of 800 points) and 98th on economic outcome (141 out of 750 points).

Scarcity of publicly traded companies hurt many of the cities at the bottom of the list, according to the site.

But, according to MarketWatch’s study, Albuquerque also ranked near the bottom on personal-income growth, jobless rate improvement and payroll growth. It did do well on factors related to the costs and risks of doing business.

“Albuquerque is third-lowest in risk of any U.S. city in the study, but that’s not really benefiting its economy,” according to the website.