To: RR who wrote (47603 ) 2/12/2002 12:18:20 AM From: Dealer Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 65232 A F T E R H O U R S .. Q U O T E S & EARNINGS RELESE 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 CLOSE 40.05 AFTERHOURS 40.08 CREE CLOSE 15.56 AFTERHOURS 15.65 *CSCO CLOSE 17.69 AFTERHOURS 17.70 ELON CLOSE 18.39 AFTERHOURS 18.39 EMC CLOSE 15.04 AFTERHOURS 14.78 *GMST CLOSE 18.77 AFTERHOURS 18.72 *INTC CLOSE 33.57 AFTERHOURS 33.42 ITWO CLOSE 6.03 AFTERHOURS 6.06 *JDSU CLOSE 6.92 AFTERHOURS 6.82 *NTAP CLOSE 17.31 AFTERHOURS 17.40 ORCL CLOSE 16.35 AFTERHOURS 16.28 PMCS CLOSE 23.21 AFTERHOURS 23.144 *QCOM CLOSE 41.28 AFTERHOURS 41.25 RBAK CLOSE 4.51 AFTERHOURS 4.50 RMBS CLOSE 6.73 AFTERHOURS 6.77 RNWK CLOSE 6.11 AFTERHOUR 6.11 *SEBL CLOSE 34.24 AFTERHOURS 34.21 SNDK CLOSE 15.11 AFTERHOURS 15.14 SSTI CLOSE 7.63 AFTERHOURS 7.399 SUNW CLOSE 9.76 AFTERHOURS 9.83 WIND CLOSE 16.82 AFTERHOURS 16.82 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.