Dain Rauscher Wessels Announces Best Stock Ideas for Second Half of 2000.Business Editors NOTE TO EDITORS: The following is an investment opinion issued by Dain Rauscher Wessels MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2000 Dain Rauscher Wessels today announced its top stock picks for the second half of 2000, a list encompassing more than 60 stocks from the division's research universe of more than 400 companies.
Companies included on the Best Ideas list are as follows:
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC)
Avanex Corporation (NASDAQ: AVNX)
BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS)
Be Free, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFRE)
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD)
Barrett Resources Corporation (NYSE: BRR)
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CDN)
Concord EFS, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEFT)
Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN)
CacheFlow Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLO)
Chordiant Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRD)
Chieftain International, Inc. (NYSE: CID)
CIENA Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN)
CheckFree Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: CKFR)
CMGI, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMGI)
Cox Communications, Inc. (NYSE: COX)
Enron Corporation (NYSE: ENE)
El Paso Energy Corporation (NYSE: EPG)
Exodus Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXDS)
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F)
Guidant Corporation (NYSE: GDT)
iBasis, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBAS)
Immunex Corporation (NASDAQ: IMNX)
Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ: IVGN)
Interwoven Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV)
Liberate Technologies (NASDAQ: LBRT)
Allscripts, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX)
Medarex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEDX)
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS)
Multex.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: MLTX)
Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE: MUR)
Nabors Industries, Inc. (AMEX: NBR)
Netcentives Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNT)
Natural MicroSystems Corporation (NASDAQ: NMSS)
Netro Corporation (NASDAQ: NTRO)
Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN)
NEXTLINK Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXLK)
Outback Steakhouse, Inc. (NYSE: OSI)
P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFCB)
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)
Proxicom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PXCM)
Rational Software Corporation (NASDAQ: RATL)
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (NYSE: RD)
REMEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: REMC)
Transocean Sedco Forex (NYSE: RIG)
RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH)
RadiSys Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS)
Rent-Way, Inc. (NYSE: RWY)
Sanmina Corporation (NASDAQ: SANM)
Scient Corporation (NASDAQ: SCNT)
Siebel Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEBL)
Stone Energy Corporation (NYSE: SGY)
Silicon Image, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIMG)
Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI)
Silicon Valley Bancshares (NASDAQ: SIVB)
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ)
TCF Financial Corporation (NYSE: TCB)
TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. (NASDAQ: TQNT)
Turnstone Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSTN)
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN)
Virata Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTA)
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC)
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Institutional investors interested in receiving more information about the above companies should contact their Dain Rauscher Wessels salesperson. The Dain Rauscher Wessels division includes equity research, equity trading In finance, equity trading is the buying and selling of company stock shares. Shares in large publicly-traded companies are bought and sold through one of the major stock exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange or Tokyo Stock Exchange, which serve as , institutional equity sales and corporate finance. The division's 36 analysts focus on five industries: consumer, energy, services, health care and technology. Currently, the analysts follow more than 400 companies. The division, which employs 350 people, has offices in Austin, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Menlo Park Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.; Minneapolis; New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ; Paris; San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ; Seattle; and Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel(a). 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The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. and other major securities exchanges, as well as the Securities Investor Protection Corp. Dain Rauscher Corporation, its holding company, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DRC DRC Democratic Republic of Congo DRC Down (Stage) Right Center DRC Director(ate) of Reserve Components DRC Disability Rights Commission (United Kingdom) . The company's headquarters are located at Dain Rauscher Plaza, 60 S. Sixth St. Dain Rauscher Incorporated makes a market in CIENA Corporation Ciena Corporation NASDAQ: CIEN develops and markets communications network platforms and software, and offers professional services. The Company's broadband access, data and optical networking platforms, software tools, and global network services support worldwide telecom , P.F. Chang`s China Bistro, Inc., CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) , Inc., Multex.com, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., REMEC, Inc., TriQuint Semiconductor Inc., BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , Inc., Invitrogen Corporation, NEXTLINK Communications, Inc., Scient Corporation, Silicon Image, Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Brocade, Inc. NASDAQ: BRCD, based in Silicon Valley, designs, manufactures, and sells storage networking solutions and management applications for storage area networks (SANs) and file area networks (FANs). , Inc, 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. , Inc., Immunex Corporation, Medarex, Inc., MIPS Technologies (MIPS Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.mips.com) Founded in 1984 as MIPS Computer Systems Inc., the company merged with SGI in 1992 and spun off as an independent entity once again in 2000. , Inc., Natural MicroSystems Corporation, Netro Corporation, Rational Software Corporation, Silicon Valley Bancshares, VeriSign, Inc., Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. Inc., Netcentives Inc., Liberate Technologies, Be Free, Inc., Proxicom, Inc., CacheFlow Inc., Turnstone Systems, Inc., Allscripts, Inc., CheckFree Holdings Corporation, 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. , Inc., iBasis, Inc., Avanex Corporation, Nuance Communications Nuance Communications is a computer software technology company. Their current worldwide headquarters is in Burlington, Massachusetts in the United States. Nuance provides speech and imaging solutions and is mainly known for its speech recognition and speech synthesis software that , Chordiant Software, Inc., Cerner Corporation, RadiSys Corporation, Sanmina Corporation, Concord EFS EFS Encrypted File System (Microsoft Windows 2000) EFS Event Free Survival (survival rates in clinical trials) EFS Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen (Sweden) , Inc., Sirius Satellite Radio
Dain Rauscher Incorporated managed or co-managed a public offering of the securities of P.F. Chang`s China Bistro, Inc., Chieftain International, Inc., Stone Energy Corporation, Multex.com, Inc., Rent-Way, Inc., REMEC, Inc., TriQuint Semiconductor Inc., Invitrogen Corporation, Silicon Image, Inc., Brocade Communications Systems, Inc, Medarex, Inc., Natural MicroSystems Corporation, Netro Corporation, Silicon Valley Bancshares, VeriSign, Inc., Interwoven Inc., Liberate Technologies, Be Free, Inc., CacheFlow Inc., Turnstone Systems, Inc., iBasis, Inc., Nuance Communications, Chordiant Software, Inc., within the past three years. The author(s) of the report hold(s) a long position in the common shares of Outback Steakhouse, Inc. The author(s) of the report hold(s) a long position in the common shares of Guidant Corporation. The author(s) of the report hold(s) a long position in the common shares of Stone Energy Corporation. A member of the immediate family of the author(s) of the report hold(s) a long position in the common shares of Stone Energy Corporation. The author(s) of the report hold(s) a long position in the common shares of CheckFree Holdings Corporation. The author(s) of the report hold(s) a long position in the common shares of Silicon Valley Bancshares. The author(s) of the report hold(s) a long position in the common shares of Wells Fargo & Company. The author(s) of the report hold(s) a long position in the common shares of NEXTLINK Communications, Inc. Additional information on the securities mentioned is available on request. This does not purport to be a complete statement of all material facts related to any company, industry, or security mentioned. The information provided, while not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness, has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. The opinions expressed reflect our judgment at this time and are subject to change without notice and may or may not be updated. DRI See Digital Research. , its officers, directors, affiliates, and/or employees (including the authors of this report) may from time to time have a long or short position in publicly or privately issued securities of companies mentioned or derivatives thereof and may sell or buy such securities for their own or related accounts. This notice shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which said offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. Copyright 2000 Dain Rauscher Incorporated (a) Strategic alliance with Tamir Fishman & Co. |
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