Doug said: some people have asserted that the opportunity cost of staying in AMD is not necessarily limited to how well they'd have done in Intel over the same period of time.
Very true Doug.. so.. surely this chart here will ease your fears somewhat:
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New York, March 30 (Bloomberg) -- A chipmaker and retailers were the best performers for the first quarter in the Standard & Poor 500 Index, while another chipmaker and computer equipment manufacturers were among the worst.
Overall, the S&P 500 Index fell 12 percent during the first quarter, compared with a 2.2 percent gain for the same period a year earlier. There were almost twice as many losers as gainers during the quarter.
The following table shows the 10 best-performing and 10 worst performing stocks in the S&P 500 index the quarter ended today.
BEST PERFORMING
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD, $26.54)+92%
Dillards Inc. (DDS, $21.94) +86%
Kmart Corp. (KM, $9.40) +77%
Compuware Corp. (CPWR, $9 3/4) +56%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.(FCX, $13.05)+52%
Cendant Corp. (CD, $14.58) +51%
Toys `R' Us Inc. (TOY, $25.10) +50%
Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL, $22.07) +48%
Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX, $20.18) +47%
Dell Computer Corp. (DELL, $25 11/16) +47% |
