The Business Week 50 (the top performers of the S&P 500, and graded on total return for 1 and 3 years, sales growth for 1 and 3 years, profit growth for 1 and 3 years, net margin, and return on equity), in the March 29 issue of BW includes the following rankings:
1) Microsoft
2) Dell
3) Gap
4) Oracle
5) EMC
EMC's ranking is up from 8th last year.
As far as total shareholder return alone, for the last year EMC is ranked 3rd (after AOL and Schwab). For the last three years, they are ranked fourth (after Dell, AOL, and Compuware).
Talking about the featured stocks from last year's BW 50 issue, they write "EMC Corp., the second-best performer [after Schwab], rose 199% [for the 52-week period ending 3/12/99], due to its dominant position in the sizzling market for the hardware and software that allows companies to store all the data, Web pages, and other information being churned out in the Internet Age."
IMHO, the BW article dovetails quite nicely into the Barron's article. |
