Market Benchmarks
By Compiled by Patrice D. Johnson and Stephanie D. Smith

(MONEY Magazine) – MARKET MEASURES

% total return Level 3 months 1 year 3 years[1]

S&P 500 1233.4 -9.7 -11.0 6.8 Nasdaq 2052.8 -29.6 -59.3 6.0 Russell 2000 473.7 -2.4 -20.8 1.7 Morgan Stanley EAFE[2] 1380.8 -6.8 -20.6 1.4 Dow Jones industrial average 10,644.6 -0.4 8.1 9.1 Lehman Bros. aggregate bond index 855.0 1.3 13.2 6.8

HOTTEST AND COLDEST SECTORS

3-MONTH PRICE CHANGE

Oil & gas (refining & marketing) 35.7% Auto parts & equipment 29.7% Retail (comp./electron.) 29.4% Housewares 28.3% Diversified chemicals 26.9% Semiconductors -23.1% Computer software & services -23.6% Electronic instrumentation -34.7% Communications equipment -48.7% Computer networking -60.7%

S&P 500 RATIOS

Current A year ago

P/E 24.3 29.0 % Yield 1.3 1.2

STOCK FUND AVERAGES

% total return 3 months 1 year 3 years[1]

U.S. diversified equity -8.7 -11.0 6.6 Large company -9.7 -10.1 5.8 Mid-size company -9.3 -11.9 8.3 Small company -2.6 -8.4 5.9 Hybrid -2.0 0.9 5.3 Overseas -6.1 -24.6 2.9

BOND FUND AVERAGES

U.S. Government 2.9 12.0 5.7 Investment-grade corporate 4.0 10.1 5.2 High-yield corporate 8.9 -3.0 -0.8 Tax-exempt 2.9 9.6 3.9

WIDELY HELD STOCKS % 3-mo. return P/E Price

Cisco Systems (CSCO) -60.6 50.9 $20.63 General Electric (GE) -20.1 34.5 43.81 Lucent Technologies (LU) -20.0 N.A. 12.34 Microsoft (MSFT) 4.1 32.8 56.69 Intel (INTC) -13.4 19.5 29.44 AT&T (T) 17.9 26.8 23.61 AOL Time Warner (AOL) -8.6 95.3 42.87 Pfizer (PFE) -2.2 41.6 42.45 Verizon Communications (VZ) -14.4 11.1 47.74 ExxonMobil (XOM) -2.3 17.1 85.99

BEST-PERFORMING STOCKS

Rank/last month % return P/E Price 3-MONTHS

1 -- Foster Wheeler (FWC) 248.9 16.6 $16.06 2 76 Owens-Illinois (OI) 175.0 N.A. 9.28 3 11 Arch Coal (ACI) 161.9 N.A. 25.64 4 8 Citadel Communications (CITC) 160.1 N.A. 24.88 5 5 Massey Energy Company (MEE) 129.7 16.2 22.71 6 1 PacifiCare Health Systems (PHSY) 128.2 6.1 27.81 7 17 Service Corp International (SRV) 127.0 N.A. 4.40 8 1029 Crown Cork & Seal (CCK) 111.8 N.A. 6.62 9 156 Rite Aid (RAD) 111.8 N.A. 5.56 10 625 Best Buy (BBY) 110.6 27.0 47.00

1 YEAR

1 13 Davita (DVA) 437.6 105.0 16.80 2 8 Skechers USA A (SKX) 403.8 N.A. 28.97 3 14 Corinthian Colleges (COCO) 369.1 50.0 47.50 4 230 Advance PCS (ADVP) 329.6 56.1 49.94 5 23 AmeriSource Health (AAS) 313.7 27.3 53.78 6 10 Shaw Group (SGR) 304.2 49.3 52.30 7 3 Cross Timbers Oil (XTO) 293.5 19.4 30.10 8 116 Massey Energy Company (MEE) 275.6 16.2 22.71 9 9 Bergen Brunswig (BBC) 273.8 N.A. 17.45 10 21 RJ Reynolds Tobacco Holdings (RJR) 271.0 3.3 60.07

3 YEARS [1]

1 2 Netegrity (NETE) 199.8 407.0 32.58 2 3 Xcelera (XLA) 198.5 39.2 4.31 3 5 Calpine (CPN) 178.9 43.8 48.15 4 1 Emulex (EMLX) 159.2 37.4 23.94 5 7 Cima Labs (CIMA) 149.9 170.7 54.63 6 13 Check Point Software Tech. (CHKP) 121.5 79.5 66.75 7 27 Silicon Storage Technology (SSTI) 118.3 9.3 10.50 8 18 Immunogen (IMGN) 114.9 N.A. 16.75 9 14 EchoStar Communications (DISH) 114.6 N.A. 28.25 10 6 Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC) 113.8 N.A. 26.44 HIGHEST-YIELDING DOW STOCKS

% yield P/E Price

Eastman Kodak (EK) 3.9 9.8 $44.92 Philip Morris (MO) 3.9 13.8 51.75 General Motors (GM) 3.4 6.9 58.95 Du Pont (DD) 3.0 21.5 47.10 AT&T (T) 3.0 26.8 23.61 Caterpillar (CAT) 2.9 15.6 46.84 International Paper (IP) 2.5 124.9 39.98 SBC Communications (SBC) 2.3 17.9 45.00 ExxonMobil (XOM) 2.1 17.1 85.99 3M (MMM) 2.0 26.1 116.41

Notes and sources: Unless otherwise noted, data are as of March 9 from Morningstar, Chicago; 312-424-4288. Bond index data are from Lehman Bros. Dow Jones and Russell 2000 Market Measures and March Performance Update data are from Bloomberg. Hottest and Coldest Sectors and S&P 500 Ratios are from Standard & Poor's; ranking is limited to sectors with at least three companies. List of Widely Held Stocks is ranked by largest number of accounts at Merrill Lynch as of March 2. Best-Performing Stocks are limited to companies with market capitalization of at least $500 million. P/Es are based on trailing 12 months' earnings. Stock prices are from Baseline. [1]Annualized. [2]Price change only. N.A.: Not available.

Compiled by Patrice D. Johnson and Stephanie D. Smith