Dain Rauscher Wessels Announces Investment Opinion On Mercury Interactive Corp.Business Editors NOTE TO EDITORS: The following is an investment opinion issued by Dain Rauscher Wessels MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 Dain Rauscher Wessels Initiates Coverage of Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, Corp. With a Buy Rating Dain Rauscher Wessels equity analyst Sarah Mattson today initiated coverage of Mercury Interactive Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MERQ MERQ Mercury Interactive Corp (stock symbol) ), $59.92, with a Buy-Aggressive Risk rating. She has a 12-month price target of $80. "We believe that the solutions Mercury Interactive provides -- testing applications before they are released and then monitoring those same applications on an on-going basis -- will move from important to mandatory, especially as more business applications move online," Mattson said. Mercury Interactive is a provider of integrated performance management solutions that enable businesses to test and monitor their Internet applications, helping to improve the performance, availability, reliability and scalability of Web sites. Institutional investors interested in receiving more information should contact their Dain Rauscher Wessels salesperson. Media interested in receiving Mattson's research report should call (612) 371-2239. Dain Rauscher Wessels, a division of Dain Rauscher Incorporated, includes equity research, equity trading In finance, equity trading is the buying and selling of company stock shares. 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The company's broker-dealer, Dain Rauscher Incorporated, serves individual investors and small business owners through offices located predominantly in the western half of the United States, and capital markets and correspondent clients in select U.S. and international markets. Founded in 1909, Dain Rauscher Incorporated is a member of the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. 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. The company's headquarters are located at Dain Rauscher Plaza, 60 S. Sixth St., in Minneapolis. Dain Rauscher Incorporated makes a market in Mercury Interactive Corporation and may act as principal with regard to sales or purchases of this security. Additional information on the securities mentioned is available on request. 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