In its May 2006 issue, Intelligent Enterprise magazine named 12 companies “that will matter the most in the upcoming year”. Here’s how their stocks did in the subsequent six months…
| Stock price | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Ticker | Company | May 1, 2006 | Nov. 1, 2006 | 6-month price return |
| 1 | BEAS | BEA Systems | 13.43 | 15.37 | 14.45% |
| 2 | ORCL | Oracle | 14.58 | 18.47 | 26.68% |
| 3 | IBM | International Business Machines | 82.23 | 91.8 | 11.64% |
| 4 | NCR | NCR Corp. (parent company of Teradata) | 39.9 | 41.21 | 3.28% |
| 5 | N/A | SAS | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 6 | MSFT | Microsoft | 24.29 | 28.81 | 18.61% |
| 7 | BOBJ | Business Objects | 32.35 | 36.23 | 11.99% |
| 8 | EMC | EMC | 13.32 | 12.21 | -8.33% |
| 9 | PRGS | Progress Software | 27.17 | 28.86 | 6.22% |
| 10 | HYSL | Hyperion Solutions | 30.79 | 36.37 | 18.12% |
| 11 | N/A | Celequest | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 12 | N/A | Savvion | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| S&P 500 | 1,305.19 | 1,367.81 | 4.80% | ||