E-Trade Barely Edges Out Schwab for Most Favorite Broker from
Survey of 95,000 Online Investors Who Forecast
Stocks
Business Editors
LAKE FOREST, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 29, 1999--More than
95,000 registered users at Investors Forecast indicate their favorite
brokers are Schwab and E-Trade with TD Waterhouse a distant third.
E-Trade and Schwab were the favorites for 22% and 19%, respectively,
of those surveyed since January of this year. TD Waterhouse is the
favorite of 8% of those surveyed.
The survey is done in conjunction with free registration at
Investors Forecast; the leading Internet site for investor based
forecasts of the stock market and price forecasts for 100 of the most
active high profile stocks. Investors Forecast, located at
investorsforecast.com, is pioneering the concept of
collective price forecasting for stocks for next weeks market close,
and has a patent pending on the real time process utilized.
The rankings for most favorite broker are listed below:
E-Trade 22%
Schwab 19%
TD Waterhouse 8%
Datek 6%
Ameritrade 5%
DLJ 5%
Fidelity 5%
Others combined 7%
None 23%
About Investors Forecast:
Investors Forecast at investorsforecast.com is the
leading collective forecasting Web site which aggregates, calculates
and displays real-time, user generated, number specific stock and
market forecasts in graph form. Some of the one hundred stock prices
forecast are:
3Com (Nasdaq:COMS)
AT&T (NYSE:T)
Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN)
America Online (NYSE:AOL )
Ameritrade (Nasdaq:AMTD)
Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL)
Beyond (Nasdaq:BYND)
CMGI (Nasdaq:CMGI)
CNET (Nasdaq:CNET)
Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO)
Coke (NYSE:KO)
Compaq (NYSE:CPQ)
Citigroup (NYSE:C)
Dell (Nasdaq:DELL)
Disney (NYSE:DIS)
E-TRADE (Nasdaq:EGRP)
e-Bay (Nasdaq:EBAY)
Ericsson (NYSE:Ericy)
Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM)
FedEx (NYSE:FDX)
Gateway (NYSE:GTW)
GE (NYSE:GE)
Go2Net
Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HWP)
Home Depot (NYSE:HD)
IBM (NYSE:IBM)
Infospace (Nasdaq:INSP)
Inktomi (Nasdaq:INKT)
Intel (Nasdaq:INTC)
J. P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM)
Lucent (NYSE:LU)
MCI-Worldcom (Nasdaq:WCOM)
Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER)
Merck (NYSE:MRK)
Micron (NYSE:MU)
Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT)
Mindspring (Nasdaq:MSPG)
Motorola (NYSE:MOT)
Nokia (NYSE:NOK)
Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL)
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)
Priceline (Nasdaq:PCLN)
RealNetworks (Nasdaq:RNWK)
Schwab (NYSE:SCH)
Scientific Atlanta (NYSE:SFA)
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW)
Tellabs (Nasdaq:TLAB)
Time Warner (NYSE:TWX)
Wal Mart (NYSE:WMT)
Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO)
Investors Forecast began collecting and publishing stock
forecasts in December 1998. It is free and open to all online
investors at investorsforecast.com. |
