Market Benchmarks
By Compiled by Tara Kalwarski

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

S&P 500 1114.0 -0.9 23.2 -2.3 Nasdaq[2] 1937.7 -4.1 30.1 -3.1 Russell 2000 563.1 -0.9 39.7 19.4 Morgan Stanley EAFE 1308.3 0.8 38.4 0.5 Dow Jones industrial average 10241.3 -1.9 23.3 0.0 Lehman Brothers aggregate bond index 1051.2 -1.3 0.5 6.2

HOTTEST AND COLDEST SECTORS Three-month price change

Personal products 16.4% Health-care distributors 16.2% Oil & gas exploration & production 15.8% Oil & gas refining & marketing & transportation 11.8% Packaged foods & meats 9.6% Computer storage & peripherals -13.8% Semiconductors -15.0% Electronic equipment manufacturers -16.1% Electronic manufacturing services -18.4% Semiconductor equipment -18.5%

S & P 500 RATIOS

P/E Current 23.0 One year ago 33.7

% yield Current 1.7 One year ago 1.8

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

U.S. diversified equity -0.8 26.4 -1.2 Large company -1.3 20.2 -4.8 Mid-size company -0.3 30.7 0.6 Small company -0.5 38.0 4.6 Multicap -0.8 25.5 -2.0 Balanced -1.0 14.4 0.4 Specialty 0.0 -5.0 -2.1

BOND FUND AVERAGES

U.S. government -1.6 -1.6 4.7 Investment-grade corporate -1.1 0.7 5.2 High-yield corporate -0.3 12.1 6.2 Tax-exempt -1.7 1.1 4.5

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

General Electric (GE) -8.5 19.7 $30.47 Pfizer (PFE) -4.4 20.1 36.55 Microsoft (MSFT) -3.1 21.6 26.12 Cisco Systems (CSCO) -9.7 33.1 21.50 ExxonMobil (XOM) 9.2 16.4 43.83 Intel (INTC) -13.0 26.0 25.98 Lucent Technologies (LU) -20.1 N.A. 3.38 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) 1.1 19.7 54.84 Citigroup (C) -0.4 13.1 47.51 Verizon Communications (VZ) 2.9 14.9 37.56

BEST-PERFORMING STOCKS

Rank/last month % return P/E Price

One month

1 2,306 OSI Pharmaceuticals (OSIP) 112.7 N.A. $77.20 2 307 Advanced Medical Optics (AVO) 35.8 35.9 33.73 3 88 Onyx Pharmaceuticals (ONXX) 34.6 N.A. 58.25 4 2,258 National Processing (NAP) 30.0 25.5 25.03 5 869 TXU (TXU) 29.4 16.0 37.31 6 125 ITT Educational Services (ESI) 24.9 30.2 42.00 7 - Inspire Pharmaceuticals (ISPH) 24.6 N.A. 17.04 8 254 ManTech International (MANT) 23.2 21.4 26.37 9 348 Tom Brown (TBI) 22.8 19.8 47.90 10 2,045 Charter One Financial (CF) 22.7 15.6 43.84

Three months

1 4 Elan[3] (ELN) 160.8 N.A. 21.20 2 956 OSI Pharmaceuticals (OSIP) 133.3 N.A. 77.20 3 11 Overstock.com (OSTK) 118.1 N.A. 38.54 4 13 Sepracor (SEPR) 84.1 N.A. 47.86 5 5 The Daiei[3] (DAIEY) 81.1 N.A. 8.72 6 131 Onyx Pharmaceuticals (ONXX) 80.6 N.A. 58.25 7 - Keryx Biopharmaceuticals (KERX) 79.8 N.A. 16.38 8 12 palmOne (PLMO) 71.1 N.A. 16.68 9 19 Ask Jeeves (ASKJ) 70.4 65.9 36.88 10 16 Laserscope (LSCP) 69.4 143.4 31.55

One year

1 1 TASER International (TASR) 2375.4 111.7 30.53 2 2 Healthsouth (HLSH) 1996.8 N.A. 5.20 3 - Keryx Biopharmaceuticals (KERX) 1179.7 N.A. 16.38 4 7 Arch Wireless A (AWIN) 995.5 46.2 34.18 5 160 Cinram International (CNRMF) 908.9 N.A. 17.37 6 12 Alamosa Holdings (APCS) 800.0 N.A. 7.20 7 3 Millicom Intl. Cellular (MICC) 606.3 N.A. 23.45 8 34 Onyx Pharmaceuticals (ONXX) 547.2 N.A. 58.25 9 26 First Horizon Pharmaceutical (FHRX) 500.0 40.9 15.96 10 8 Blue Coat Systems (BCSI) 493.9 N.A. 39.26

HIGHEST-YIELDING DOW STOCKS % yield P/E Price

SBC Communications (SBC) 4.9 16.9 $25.30 Altria Group (MO) 4.8 12.0 56.35 General Motors (GM) 4.3 7.6 46.27 Verizon Communications (VZ) 4.1 14.9 37.56 J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM) 3.6 10.8 37.60 Citigroup (C) 3.4 13.1 47.51 DuPont (DD) 3.2 21.6 43.11 Merck (MRK) 3.1 16.2 48.11 General Electric (GE) 2.6 19.7 30.47 ExxonMobil (XOM) 2.5 16.4 43.83

NOTES AND SOURCES: Unless otherwise noted, data as of May 6 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