WE’RE BAAAAACK, and it feels so much better.

For the first time in three years, the Globe 100 features 100 companies. A strange milestone, given that it’s called the Globe 100, but the Great Recession robbed many of the chance to make our annual list of the best-performing public companies in Massachusetts. In 2010, only 82 companies made the list; in 2011, just 90.