DAILY NEWS STOCK PICKING CONTEST : FIRST PLACE.NAME: Leona LottSTOCK PORTFOLIO: Cash TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought 1,000 shares of Microsoft Corp. at $86.3125, bought 1,000 shares of Xilinx Inc. at $68.625, sold 1,000 shares of Microsoft at $92.25, sold 1,000 shares of Xilinx at $69. VALUE THIS MORNING: $182,618.75. (all cash) VALUE ON Oct. 18: $176,506.25. (all cash) Second Place NAME: Jonathan Martinez STOCK PORTFOLIO: 429 shares of Electronic Arts, 408 shares of Exodus Communications Exodus Communications was a high-flying internet hosting and service provider to dot-com businesses that went broke along with their customers. Exodus inception Exodus was founded in 1992 as Fouress, Inc., and reincorporated in 1994 to Exodus Communications. , 664 shares of Oracle Corp. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought 232 shares of Microsoft Corp. at $86.3125, bought 238 shares of Amgen Inc. at $83.9375, bought 1,124 shares of MindSpring Enterprises at $26.6875, bought 702 shares of EarthLink Network at $42.75, sold 232 shares of Microsoft Corp. at $92.25, sold 238 shares of Amgen Inc. at $86.125, sold 1,124 shares of MindSpring Enterprises at $25.8125, sold 702 shares of EarthLink Network at $41.6875, bought 432 shares of Inktomi Corp. at $115.6875, sold 432 shares of Inktomi Corp. at $120.50, bought 408 shares of Exodus Communications at $73.50, bought 429 shares of Electronic Arts at $69.875, bought 664 shares of Oracle Corp. at $45.1875. VALUE THIS MORNING: $109,552.5875. (including $20,641.7125 cash) VALUE ON OCT. 18: $109,012.8375. (all cash) Third Place NAME: Thelma Lyden STOCK PORTFOLIO: 105 shares of America Online See AOL. , 866 shares of Microsoft, 937 shares of Sybase Inc., 23 shares of Yahoo!. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Sold 155 shares of Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. at $67.1875, bought 529 shares of GBC GBC Game Boy Color GBC Global Business Coalition GBC Green Building Council GBC George Brown College GBC Great Basin College (Nevada) GBC General Binding Corporation GBC Greater Baltimore Committee GBC Goldey-Beacom College Bancorp at $19.50, sold 529 shares of GBC Bancorp at $18.6875, sold 145 shares of Powerwave Technologies at $59.0625, sold 118 shares of Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc. at $94.0625, sold 175 shars of Yahoo at $174.875, bought 694 shares of Microsoft Corp. at $86.3125, sold 166 shares of EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. at $63, bought 937 shares of Sybase Inc. at $11.0625. VALUE THIS MORNING:$109,132.0625.(including $6 in cash) VALUE ON OCT. 18:$102,135.9375.(including $13.625 in cash) Fourth Place NAME: Fred Fowlks STOCK PORTFOLIO: Ciber Inc., 500 shares; Elan (Emulated LAN) A virtual LAN in the ATM world. See LANE and virtual LAN. Elan - ["Top-down Programming with Elan", C.H.A. Koster, Ellis Horwood 1987]. Corp., 500 shares; Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. , 300 shares. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: None. VALUE THIS MORNING: $107,862.50. (includes $54,537.50 in cash) VALUE ON OCT. 18: $102,512.50. (includes $54,537.50 in cash) Fifth Place NAME: Bernard Yoo STOCK PORTFOLIO: 450 shares of Advanced Micro Devices, 590 shares of Corel Corp., 340 shares of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , 405 shares of Red Hat Inc., 395 shares of Unify Corp. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Sold 75 shares of Apple Computer at $74.5625, sold 250 shares of Gadzoox Networks Inc. at $50.75, sold 50 shares of Weatherford International Weatherford International Ltd (NYSE: WFT) is one of the world's largest diversified upstream oilfield service companies. Weatherford provides services ranging from directional drilling, open and cased-hole wireline logging to underbalanced systems expertise, drilling, at $33.1875, sold 1,100 shares of A.T. Cross at $4.375, bought 70 shares of Chevron Corp. at $88.3125, bought 200 shares of Anadarko Petroleum at $30, bought 50 shares of IBM at $107.875, bought 285 shares of Unify Corp. at $21.75, sold 125 shares of Apple at $75.125, sold 400 shares of Unify at $23.25, bought 55 shares of IBM at $107, bought 235 shares of Plantronics Inc. at $52.75, sold 160 shares of Apple at $76.125, sold 70 shares of Chevron at $92.6875, sold 200 shares of Anadarko Petroleum at $30.3125, sold 235 shares of Plantronics at $54.625, bought 255 shares of Red Hat at $77, bought 110 shares of IBM at $91. VALUE THIS MORNING: $93,680.3125.(including $190.9375 in cash) VALUE ON OCT. 18: $94,326.5625.(including $190.9375 in cash) Sixth Place NAME: Sean Williams
Sean Llewellyn Williams (born 1967) is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in Adelaide, Australia. STOCK PORTFOLIO: Beyond.com, 2,033 shares; Transwitch, 1,417 shares. TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: None. VALUE THIS MORNING: $80,992.50 (including $8.75 in cash) VALUE ON OCT. 18: $88,212.0625 (including $8.75 in cash) CAPTION(S): 6 photos PHOTO (1) Leona Lott (2) Jonathan Martinez (3) Thelma Lyden (4) Fred Fowlks (5) Bernard Yoo (6) Sean Williams |
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