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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gottfried who wrote (62340)	3/26/2002 12:21:21 AM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

At the start, from you. To:StanX Long who wrote (59436)From: Gottfried Friday, Jan 25, 2002 7:15 PMView Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62340 Stan, I get the upgrade history here earnings.com. May require sign-up. Date Brokerage Firm Action Details 01/25/2002 RBC CAPITAL MKTS Upgraded to Outperform from Sector Perform 01/23/2002 J.P. Morgan Upgraded to Lt Buy from Mkt Perform 01/07/2002 Us Bancorp PJ Upgraded to Strong Buy from Outperform 12/12/2001 Fahnestock & Co. Coverage Initiated at Buy 12/04/2001 Warburg Dillon Reed Upgraded to Buy from Hold 11/14/2001 Gerard Klauer Mattison Upgraded to Buy from Neutral 11/12/2001 Needham & Company Downgraded to Buy from Strong Buy 10/24/2001 Tucker Anthony Sutro Upgraded to Mkt Perform from Underperform 10/15/2001 Lehman Brothers Downgraded to Mkt Perform from Strong Buy 10/12/2001 A.G. Edwards Downgraded to Hold from Buy 10/10/2001 J.P. Morgan Downgraded to Mkt Perform from Lt Buy 09/28/2001 Us Bancorp PJ Coverage Initiated at Buy 08/21/2001 Dain Rauscher Wessels Coverage Initiated at Neutral 08/07/2001 CSFB Downgraded to Hold from Buy 08/01/2001 Merrill Lynch Upgraded to Nt Buy from Nt Neutral 07/17/2001 Gerard Klauer Mattison Downgraded to Neutral from Buy 07/17/2001 ABN AMRO Downgraded to Add from Buy 06/01/2001 Needham & Company Upgraded to Strong Buy from Buy 05/25/2001 Prudential Securities Upgraded to Strong Buy from Accumulate 05/16/2001 FS Van Kasper Upgraded to Strong Buy from Buy 05/11/2001 Unterberg Towbin Coverage Initiated at Buy 05/10/2001 MORGAN STANLEY Upgraded to Strong Buy from Outperform 05/10/2001 A.G. Edwards Upgraded to Buy from Maintain Position 05/03/2001 Tucker Anthony Sutro Downgraded to Underperform from Mkt Perform 05/01/2001 FS Van Kasper Upgraded to Buy from Mkt Perform 04/12/2001 FS Van Kasper Upgraded to Mkt Perform from Sell 04/11/2001 Salomon Smith Barney Upgraded to Buy from Neutral 02/26/2001 Josephthal and Co. Downgraded to Hold from Buy 02/14/2001 J.P. Morgan Upgraded to Lt Buy from Mkt Perform 02/13/2001 FS Van Kasper Downgraded to Sell from Hold 02/12/2001 Thomas Weisel Upgraded to Buy from Mkt Perform 01/31/2001 CIBC World Markets Upgraded to Strong Buy from Buy 01/31/2001 Needham & Company Upgraded to Strong Buy from Hold 01/08/2001 FS Van Kasper Downgraded to Hold from Accumulate 01/04/2001 TUCKER ANTHNY CAP MKTS Downgraded to Mkt Perform from Strong Buy 12/28/2000 A.G. Edwards Downgraded to Maintain Position from Accumulate 12/13/2000 Merrill Lynch Downgraded to Nt Neutral from Nt Accum 12/12/2000 Thomas Weisel Downgraded to Market Perform from Buy 12/06/2000 Deutsche Bank Coverage Initiated at Mkt Perform 12/05/2000 Needham & Company Downgraded to Hold from Buy 11/14/2000 Prudential Securities Downgraded to Accumulate from Strong Buy 11/14/2000 FS Van Kasper Downgraded to Accumulate from Buy 11/01/2000 Morgan Stanley, DW Downgraded to Outperform from Strong Buy 10/18/2000 Warburg Dillon Reed Downgraded to Hold from Buy 10/17/2000 Chase H&Q Downgraded to Market Perform from Buy 10/03/2000 Soundview Downgraded to Buy from Strong Buy 09/22/2000 S G Cowen Downgraded to Buy from Strong Buy 09/22/2000 CIBC World Markets Downgraded to Buy from Strong Buy 08/01/2000 Paine Webber Coverage Initiated at Buy 07/28/2000 Tucker Anthony Upgraded to Strong Buy from Accumulate 07/26/2000 William Blair Downgraded to Buy from Strong Buy 07/07/2000 Banc of America Coverage Initiated at Buy 06/28/2000 Prudential Securities Coverage Initiated at Strong Buy 04/12/2000 Salomon Smith Barney Coverage Initiated at Buy 04/11/2000 Advest, Inc Upgraded to Strong Buy from Buy 04/05/2000 Adams Harkness Upgraded to Accumulate from Market Perform Then from me. To:Gottfried who wrote (59446)From: StanX Long Sunday, Jan 27, 2002 11:24 PMView Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62340 Gottfried, referring to the resent upgrades and the track record. Your chart was interesting so I took the action to update the data from 4-5-00 up until this past Friday. Doing the opposite of the recommendations would have been much more profitable. It would be hard for the recommendations to be much worst. Does anyone else have an opinion. The first link below is what you provided. The second link is an excel spreadsheet and a chart showing the date, upgrade and closing cost. Upgrade data from, earnings.com. This is my chart and spreadsheet. us.f1.yahoofs.com. Historical data from Yahoo @ chart.yahoo.com.