Best/Worst Performing Stocks

Wall Street - Trading (2007)

The Best 10 (+%)

1- Year / 3-Year/ 5-Year / 10-Year
First Solar-795.2 /Foster Wheeler-113.8/ Hansen Natural-142.5/ Hansen Natural-69.5
Onyx Pharm.-425.7/ Hansen Natural-113.5/ SBA Commun.-141.7/ Calgene-52
Mosaic-341.7/ McDermott Intl.-112.9/ Titanium Metals-123.2/ Apple-50.7
CF Industries-330/ Titanium Metals-106.2/ McDermott Intl.-109.6/ Immucor-40.5
Terra Indust.-298.7/ Intuitive Surgical-100.6/ Terra Industries-99/ South. Copper-38.8
Sun Power Cl A-250.8/ MEMC Electronic-88.3/ Apple-94.2/ Healthways-38
Intuitive Surg.-236.8/ Frontier Oil-84.8/ Intuitive Surgical-92.2/ Penn Nt. Gmng-37.7
Foster Wheeler-181.1/ Illumina-84.2/ NII Holdings-89.9/ NVR-37.4
ASK Steel Hold.-173.6/ Apple-83.2/ Southern Copper-84.8/ Ansys-36.8
Owens-Illinois-168.3/ Guess?-82.4/ Tesoro-84.6/ Frontier Oil-36.3


The Worst 10 (-%)

Countrywide Finl.-78.4/ Countrywide Finl.-36.5/ Tenet Healthcare-20.9/ Rite Aid-20.7
MBIA-74.1/ MBIA-36.5/ NY Times Cl A-15.7/ Ciena-16.8
Ambac Finl.-70.6/ Ambac Finl.-31.4/ MBIA-14.3/ Sirius Satellite-15.8
Wash. Mutual-68.2/ XM Satellite-31.2/ Ambac Finl.-13.7/ Level 3 Comm.-14.6
Pulte Homes-68/ Boston Scientific-31.1/ Wash. Mutual-13.1/ ADC Telecom.-14.3
Lennar Cl A-65.2/ Lennar Cl A-31/ Fifth Third Bank-12.9/ Tenet Health-13.7
MGIC Invest.-63.6/ Pulte Homes-30.5/ Boston Scientific-11.4/ Tellabs-13
Office Depot-63.6/ MGIC Invest.-30.3/ MGIC Investment-10.7/ Ford Motor-11.3
Adv. Micro Dev.-63.1/ Adv. Micro Dev.-30.2/ Interpublic Group-10.4/ Paramatric-11.3
SLM-58.5/ Wash. Mutual-27.9/ Lexmark Intl.-10.4/ JDS Uniphase-10.7

Job Creation

January 2001-2007: federal government employment (excluding Postal Service) grew faster than private sector employment - potentially, first time since WW II.



(source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, via Haver Analytics)

(Microsoft + Yahoo) = Google?

Internet

February 1, 2008 - Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.7 billion bid for Yahoo in attempt to better compete with Google. Why?

1) Slow Growth in Mature Product Market



2) + Slow Growth in Growing Service Market



3) = Rising Profitability and Market Capitalization?