In its May 2006 issue, Intelligent Enterprise magazine names 12 companies “that will matter the most in the upcoming year”. Let’s see how their stock does in the upcoming year…
The companies on the list are:
| No. | Ticker | Company | Stock price, May 1, 2006 |
| 1 | BEAS | BEA Systems | 13.43 |
| 2 | ORCL | Oracle | 14.58 |
| 3 | IBM | International Business Machines | 82.23 |
| 4 | NCR | NCR Corp. (parent company of Teradata) | 39.9 |
| 5 | N/A | SAS | N/A |
| 6 | MSFT | Microsoft | 24.29 |
| 7 | BOBJ | Business Objects | 32.35 |
| 8 | EMC | EMC | 13.32 |
| 9 | PRGS | Progress Software | 27.17 |
| 10 | HYSL | Hyperion Solutions | 30.79 |
| 11 | N/A | Celequest | N/A |
| 12 | N/A | Savvion | N/A |