DAILY NEWS STOCK PICKING CONTEST.THE GAME: Five people are managing fictitious portfolios that stood at $100,000 on April 1. Contestants can buy and sell daily, but each transaction costs Transaction Costs Costs incurred when buying or selling securities. These include brokers' commissions and spreads (the difference between the price the dealer paid for a security and the price they can sell it). $50. The portfolios are limited to stocks traded on the nation's major exchanges. THE PAYOFF: Whomever whom·ev·er pron. The objective case of whoever. See Usage Note at who. whomever pron the objective form of whoever: has the largest portfolio on Aug. 1 stands tallest. FIRST PLACE NAME: Michael De Coux STOCK PORTFOLIO: Alcoa Inc. 300 Avery Dennison Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) produces pressure-sensitive materials (such as self-adhesive labels), office products, and various paper products. R. Stanton Avery founded Avery in 1935. Avery Dennison Corporation was created in 1990 by merger of Avery and Dennison. 600 Boeing 300 Boise Cascade Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC, which uses the trade name Boise, is an American pulp and paper company, ranked as the thirteenth largest forest products company in the world. 300 Caterpillar 300 Circuit City 200 Ecolab 200 E.I. DuPont 300 Exxon Mobil 300 General Electric 300 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) 600 Honeywell 300 Mbia Inc. 100 Mercury Air Group 500 Public Storage 500 Raytheon 300 The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box 300 Toys-R-Us 500 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought: Boise Cascade, 300 shares; Ecolab, 300 shares; Raytheon, 300 shares; Toys-R-Us, 500 shares. VALUE THIS MORNING: $191,007.41 (including $5,662 in cash) VALUE ON APRIL 22: $196,541 (including $138,865 in cash) SECOND PLACE NAME: Chris Vaughn STOCK PORTFOLIO: Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. NASDAQ: AMAT (HKSE: 4336 ) is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel solar displays, solar 1,000 Boyd Gaming Boyd Gaming Corporation (NYSE: BYD) is a Las Vegas, Nevada based business engaged in the development, ownership and operation of hotels and casinos throughout the United States. 1,000 Gemstar-TV Guide 1,000 Microsoft 500 ViroPharma 2,000 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought: Applied Materials, 1,000 shares; Microsoft, 500 shares. VALUE THIS MORNING: $104,031 (including $22,831 in cash) VALUE ON APRIL 22: $111,951 (including $76,331 in cash) THIRD PLACE NAME: Jayesh Patel STOCK PORTFOLIO: Checkpoint 2,000 Goto.com 1,000 Protein Design Lab 1,500 Razorfish 25,000 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought: Checkpoint, 2,000 shares; Goto.com, 1,000 shares; Razorfish, 25,000; Worldcom, 4,500 shares; Sold: Broadcom, 1,000 shares; Juniper, 1,000 shares; Nextel, 2,000 shares; Worldcom, 4,500 shares. VALUE THIS MORNING: $102,710 (including $1,465 in cash) VALUE ON APRIL 22: $110,275 (including $19,395 in cash) FOURTH PLACE NAME: Kaye Krassner STOCK PORTFOLIO: Bisys Group 650 Countrywide 350 Coca-Cola 300 Goldcorp 500 Philip Morris Companies 470 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought: Countrywide, 350 shares; Goldcorp, 500 shares; Sold: Kohl's Corp., 360 shares. VALUE THIS MORNING: $101,820 (including $12,730.95 in cash) VALUE ON APRIL 22: $102,147.25 (including $11,522.85 in cash) FIFTH PLACE NAME: Robert Henri Robert Henri (June 25, 1865 - July 12, 1929) was an American painter notable for his teaching and leadership of the Ashcan School movement in art. Early life He was born Robert Henry Cozad STOCK PORTFOLIO: Coca-Cola 500 Exxon Mobil 500 Intraware 5,000 Kimberly Clark 250 Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. 500 Visionics 500 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Sold: None VALUE THIS MORNING: $97,847.50 (including $14,837.50 in cash) VALUE ON APRIL 22: $101,750 (including $14,837.50 in cash) CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1) Michael De Coux (2) Robert Henri (3) Kaye Krassner (4) Jayesh Patel (5) Chris Vaughn |
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