To: BirdDog who wrote (47621 ) 2/12/2002 8:25:39 PM 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 39.82 AFTERHOURS 40.09 CREE CLOSE 15.51 AFTERHOURS 15.50 *CSCO CLOSE 17.26 AFTERHOURS 17.32 ELON CLOSE 21.06 AFTERHOURS 21.04 EMC CLOSE 14.00 AFTERHOURS 14.45 *GMST CLOSE 17.18 AFTERHOURS 17.16 *INTC CLOSE 32.97 AFTERHOURS 33.20 ITWO CLOSE 5.92 AFTERHOURS 6.02 *JDSU CLOSE 6.55 AFTERHOURS 6.60 *NTAP CLOSE 16.45 AFTERHOURS 17.60 ORCL CLOSE 16.18 AFTERHOURS 16.30 PMCS CLOSE 22.66 AFTERHOURS 22.85 *QCOM CLOSE 40.50 AFTERHOURS 40.61 RBAK CLOSE 4.35 AFTERHOURS 4.32 RMBS CLOSE 6.50 AFTERHOURS 6.50 RNWK CLOSE 6.06 AFTERHOUR 6.08 *SEBL CLOSE 34.33 AFTERHOURS 34.60 SNDK CLOSE 15.62 AFTERHOURS 15.99 SSTI CLOSE 7.51 AFTERHOURS 7.91 SUNW CLOSE 9.40 AFTERHOURS 9.48 WIND CLOSE 16.67 AFTERHOURS 16.86 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.