U.S. and Global SEMIndexes Rise, As Do NASDAQ, SOX
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 8, 2002 -The U.S. SEMIndex®, a market-weighted equity index of 48 U.S.-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment and materials, rose 6.25 percent this week, increasing from 224.29 to 238.30, according to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
Similarly, the tech-laden NASDAQ Composite Index rose 3.80 percent this week, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) followed the other markets, rising 6.16 percent during the same period.
The global SEMIndex, up 5.48 percent over the past five days, rising from 214.76 to 226.52, is a composite index of 66 global SEMI members in the U.S., Japan and Europe.
The global SEMIndex is comprised of public semiconductor equipment, materials and related services companies with individual market capitalizations of $50 million (U.S. equivalent) or more. SEMIndex is updated every 1 to 2 minutes throughout the global trading day and maintained on SEMI's investor website, www.semindex.org.
SEMIndex differentiates the stock performance of global semiconductor equipment and materials (SEM) public companies from the SOX index, a more semiconductor-specific equity index comprised of 12 U.S.-only chip manufacturers and four of the largest SEM sector U.S. public companies. SEMIndex was initiated on January 4, 1999 at a value of 100. It is produced for SEMI by InvestorCom, Inc., New York.
Based in San Jose, Calif., SEMI is an international industry association serving more than 2,500 companies participating in the semiconductor and flat panel display equipment and materials markets. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit SEMI on the Internet at www.semi.org. |
