To: James Calladine who wrote (42899 ) 10/4/2001 8:08:46 PM From: Dealer Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 65232 A F T E R H O U R S .. Q U O T E S & EARNINGS REPORT DATES Voltaire's Porch Basket of Stocks These Stock Have Not Been Picked By Any One Individual GORILLA--A company that controls it market because it has a discontinuous innovation ,one that is not compatible with existing systems. The market is in a hyper growth stage, and they control the architecture. There is a high switching cost to using some other company's product. KING--The Market leader, properly with a two-times lead or better over its closest competitor. If the lead shrinks too far, the king becomes a prince, and we have a kingless market. Because they lack architectural control, and because switching costs are low, they cannot force competitors onto the defensive the way Microsoft, Intel, or Cisco can. Compaq is a king. Seagate is a king of hard drives. A lot of study has been done on these stocks by the Gorilla and Kings thread. There are the stocks that are discussed most often on the porch........and 1 or more are in most porcher's portfolio. The following Stocks are on the Gorilla and King Index (*)or the Gorilla and King Watchlist SYMBOL---EARNINGS DATE BRCM---7/18 CLOSE 25.01 AFTERHOURS 24.78 CREE---7/11 CLOSE 17.05 AFTERHOURS 16.90 *CSCO---8/7 CLOSE 14.42 AFTERHOURS 14.38 ELON---7/19 CLOSE 13.08 AFTERHOURS 12.75 EMC---7/19 CLOSE 12.50 AFTERHOURS 12.40 *GMST---8/13 CLOSE 20.78 AFTERHOURS 20.50 *INTC---7/17 CLOSE 21.55 AFTERHOURS 21.56 ITWO---7/18 CLOSE 4.43 AFTERHOURS 4.45 *JDSU---7/24 CLOSE 7.02 AFTERHOURS 6.91 *NTAP--- 8/14 CLOSE 8.51 AFTERHOURS 8.49 ORCL---6/18 CLOSE 13.79 AFTERHOURS 13.75 PMCS--- 7/19 CLOSE 12.72 AFTERHOURS 12.70 *QCOM--- 7/25 CLOSE 42.00 AFTERHOURS 41.50 RMBS---7/12 CLOSE 7.84 AFTERHOURS 7.75 RNWK---7/17 CLOSE 5.32 AFTERHOUR 5.25 *SEBL---7/18 CLOSE 18.81 AFTERHOURS 18.63 SNDK---7/18 CLOSE 11.07 AFTERHOURS 11.057 SSTI---7/12 CLOSE 4.97 AFTERHOURS 4.97 SUNW---7/19 CLOSE 9.29 AFTERHOURS 9.20 WIND---8/16 CLOSE 11.59 AFTERHOURS 11.59 The Watch & Wait Index consists of stocks that have some desirable characteristics but are not necessarily Gorillas or Kings - at least not yet. Most of them will not be, but they bear watching for that possibility.