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 | |||||
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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% |