DOLLARS & SENSE : VALLEY'S BIG 10.

Daily News readers said the 10 companies that compose the Valley's Big 10 were the ones they'd buy if they had to hold on to $1,000 worth of 10 companies for 12 months without a single trade. The Valley's Second 10 finished 11th through 20th in balloting.

As has been the case each week since the indexes began Sept. 1, the Second 10 leads the Big 10 and the nation's major indexes.

INDEX FRI. CHANGE x

Valley's Big 10 $12,440.82 +24.56

Valley's 2nd 10 $15,110.69 +50.54

S&P 500 1,458.34 +2.6

Dow Jones 11,405.76 +1.3

Valley's Big 10

COMPANY FRI. CHANGE x

AOL $81.375 +75.00

CSCO  $104.438 +53.16

DELL $52.688 +9.06

INTC  $83.12 5 -0.67

LU $78.063 +20.91

MRK $69.75 +3.81

MSFT  $117.438 +27.22

Valley's Second 10

COMPANY FRI. CHANGE x

AMGN $54.188 +30.18

DIS $29.125 +4.48

EBAY $142.313 +13.34

HD $97.50 +59.18

ORCL $106.688 +191.30

PFE $34.125 -10.64

SUNW  $75.75 -5.16

WCOM  $81.00 +6.06

YHOO $402.625 +170.67

x Percentage change since Sept. 1

ONE IDEA

Name: Sandy Lechtick

Home: Woodland Hills

Age: 50

Occupation: Executive recruiter

One Idea: Invest in Internet stocks such as AOL, Yahoo

and CMGI. Lechtick likes CMGI, an Internet incubator, which invests in, owns and operates several online companies, including AltaVista. He owns 500 shares, which he purchased about a year ago at $70 per share.

Quote: ``It's the engine of the future. The Internet is increasingly becoming the turbocharged engine of growth of the Nasdaq exchange and the economy.''

Ticker: CMGI

Thursday's close: $270.812