To: BirdDog who wrote (45664 ) 12/27/2001 12:38:41 AM 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 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 CLOSE 40.38 AFTERHOURS 40.46 CREE CLOSE 31.16 AFTERHOURS 31.11 *CSCO CLOSE 18.24 AFTERHOURS 18.28 ELON CLOSE 14.06 AFTERHOURS 14.40 EMC CLOSE 13.32 AFTERHOURS 13.30 *GMST CLOSE 27.60 AFTERHOURS 27.65 *INTC CLOSE 32.29 AFTERHOURS 32.35 ITWO CLOSE 6.65 AFTERHOURS 6.62 *JDSU CLOSE 8.49 AFTERHOURS 8.45 *NTAP CLOSE 22.15 AFTERHOURS 22.05 ORCL CLOSE 14.09 AFTERHOURS 14.13 PMCS CLOSE 21.00 AFTERHOURS 21.03 *QCOM CLOSE 50.61 AFTERHOURS 50.71 RMBS CLOSE 7.88 AFTERHOURS 7.84 RNWK CLOSE 5.83 AFTERHOUR 5.76 *SEBL CLOSE 27.72 AFTERHOURS 27.89 SNDK CLOSE 13.75 AFTERHOURS 13.89 SSTI CLOSE 9.55 AFTERHOURS 9.52 SUNW CLOSE 12.22 AFTERHOURS 12.27 WIND CLOSE 18.00 AFTERHOURS 18.00 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.