(MONEY Magazine) – % TOTAL RETURN MARKET MEASURES Level 3 months 1 year 3 years[1]

S&P 500 1139.3 1.1 33.0 0.4 Nasdaq[2] 2052.9 -2.3 50.3 1.5 Russell 2000 597.9 3.4 62.3 11.0 Morgan Stanley EAFE 1353.2 3.1 53.7 2.8 Dow Jones industrial average 10442.0 -0.9 29.9 3.2 Lehman Brothers aggregate bond index 1074.0 1.2 4.2 7.2

HOTTEST AND COLDEST SECTORS Three-month price change

Wireless telecom services 24.5% Managed health care 20.5% Home building 14.1% Restaurants 13.7% Oil & gas equipment & services 12.9% Systems software -9.2% Semiconductor equipment -9.9% Electronic manufacturing services -11.8% Semiconductors -12.6% Broadcasting & cable TV -13.7%

S & P 500 RATIOS

P/E Current 23.2 One year ago 31.8

% yield Current 1.7 One year ago 1.9

% TOTAL RETURN STOCK FUND AVERAGES 3 months 1 year 3 years[1]

U.S. diversified equity 2.1 40.5 2.2 Large company 0.7 30.3 -2.0 Mid-size company 3.8 47.9 4.5 Small company 3.7 59.6 9.7 Multicap 2.0 38.9 1.1 Balanced 1.2 22.3 2.6 Specialty 1.0 -5.6 -3.3

BOND FUND AVERAGES

U.S. government 0.8 1.7 5.4 Investment-grade corporate 0.8 4.3 6.0 High-yield corporate 0.4 18.1 7.4 Tax-exempt 0.1 4.5 5.1

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

General Electric (GE) -2.0 20.3 $31.41 Pfizer (PFE) -1.9 20.3 35.60 Microsoft (MSFT) -9.5 22.4 25.48 Cisco Systems (CSCO) -8.3 37.2 24.15 ExxonMobil (XOM) 4.4 16.6 42.45 Intel (INTC) -19.9 31.8 27.37 Lucent Technologies (LU) 14.7 N.A. 4.45 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) -1.7 19.2 50.87 Citigroup (C) 3.6 15.1 51.53 Verizon Communications (VZ) 1.5 14.5 37.31

BEST-PERFORMING STOCKS

Rank/last month % return P/E Price

One month

1 130 OAO Gazprom (OGZPF) 94.6 N.A. $37.30 2 2,110 TASER International (TASR) 78.9 299.4 99.80 3 18 palmOne (PLMO) 71.5 N.A. 22.60 4 935 Publix Super Markets (PUSH) 57.1 N.A. 55.00 5 140 The Daiei[3] (DAIEY) 53.4 N.A. 8.85 6 2,593 InfoSpace (INSP) 52.9 113.2 45.26 7 - Blue Coat Systems (BCSI) 49.2 N.A. 64.16 8 - Identix (IDNX) 43.1 N.A. 7.77 9 33 Sierra Wireless (SWIR) 39.9 211.9 42.38 10 5 Ask Jeeves (ASKJ) 39.8 100.1 40.05

Three months

1 8 TASER International (TASR) 218.7 299.4 99.80 2 - Blue Coat Systems (BCSI) 177.7 N.A. 64.16 3 41 OAO Gazprom (OGZPF) 155.3 N.A. 37.30 4 1 Elan[3] (ELN) 133.4 N.A. 19.70 5 21 The Daiei[3] (DAIEY) 105.3 N.A. 8.85 6 5 Sierra Wireless (SWIR) 97.6 211.9 42.38 7 - Encore Wire (WIRE) 95.8 37.9 35.64 8 12 Given Imaging (GIVN) 94.2 N.A. 37.19 9 - Coldwater Creek (CWTR) 92.0 44.1 22.50 10 649 InfoSpace (INSP) 91.4 113.2 45.26

One year

1 1 TASER International (TASR) 6137.5 299.4 99.80 2 2,398 Healthsouth (HLSH) 2735.8 N.A. 4.75 3 2 Millicom Intl. Cellular (MICC) 1066.5 N.A. 24.64 4 - Equinix (EQIX) 1052.2 N.A. 33.99 5 7 Sierra Wireless (SWIR) 1051.6 211.9 42.38 6 4 Akamai Technologies (AKAM) 990.0 N.A. 15.26 7 - Arch Wireless A (AWIN) 967.1 41.4 33.08 8 - Blue Coat Systems (BCSI) 912.0 N.A. 64.16 9 5 Telesystem Intl. Wireless (TIWI) 881.7 308.0 12.32 10 15 Homestore (HOMS) 844.4 11.6 5.10

HIGHEST-YIELDING DOW STOCKS % yield P/E Price

SBC Communications (SBC) 5.1 15.8 $24.46 Altria Group (MO) 4.9 12.0 55.37 General Motors (GM) 4.3 8.3 46.52 Verizon Communications (VZ) 4.1 14.5 37.31 Merck (MRK) 3.3 15.3 44.63 J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM) 3.3 12.7 41.15 DuPont (DD) 3.2 26.2 43.43 Citigroup (C) 3.1 15.1 51.53 General Electric (GE) 2.5 20.3 31.41 ExxonMobil (XOM) 2.4 16.6 42.45

NOTES AND SOURCES: Unless otherwise noted, data as of April 8 are from Lipper, New York; 877-955-4773. Bond index data from Lehman Brothers. Market Measures index levels from Bloomberg. Hottest and Coldest Sectors and S&P 500 Ratios from Standard & Poor's; ranking limited to sectors with at least three companies. List of Widely Held Stocks ranked by largest number of accounts at Merrill Lynch as of March 26. Widely Held Stocks, Best-Performing Stocks P/E and Highest-Yielding Dow Stocks data from Thomson/Baseline; P/E based on GAAP. Best-Performing Stocks data from Reuters; ranking limited to companies with market capitalization of at least $500 million. [1] Annualized. [2] Price change only. [3] American Depositary Receipts. N.A.: Not available. Compiled by Tara Kalwarski