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The New BSP 30      

by Ethan Haskel (Cormend@aol.com)

Baltimore, MD (March 24, 1999) -- The end of March not only brings us spring, but also a renewal of a different sort. Along with the flowering bulbs, robin red-breast, and exhibition baseball comes the annual Business Week issue of the Top Companies of the S&P 500.

To review for new readers, a number of years ago we searched far and wide for an appropriate database from which to choose our 30 Beating the S&P (BSP) stocks. We decided to use the Business Week listing because it presented all the necessary data in one tidy package. The listing was also the most authoritative, accessible, and established we could find.

Then, once we had had developed carefully chosen ground rulesfor choosing our specific 30 BSP stocks, all we had to do was to apply them to come up with an annually updated list of the stocks from which all our subsequent investments would be made for the year.

Without further ado, here is the current list of the 30 Beating the S&P stocks for the year:

American International Group (NYSE: AIG)
Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD)
BankAmerica (NYSE: BAC)
Bank One (NYSE: ONE)
Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY)
Carnival (NYSE: CCL)
Chase Manhattan (NYSE: CMB)
Compaq (NYSE: CPQ)
Dayton Hudson (NYSE: DH)
Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY)
Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM)
Ford Motor (NYSE: F)
Gap (NYSE: GPS)
Gillette (NYSE: G)
Home Depot (NYSE: HD)
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC)
Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU)
Mobil (NYSE: MOB)
Monsanto (NYSE: MTC)
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (NYSE: MWD)
Motorola (NYSE: MOT)
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP)
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)
Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB)
Sprint Corp (NYSE: FON)
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN)
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX)
Tyco International (NYSE: TYC)
Waste Management (NYSE: WMI)
Xerox (NYSE: XRX)

The following seven stocks were on last year's list but not on the current list:

Amoco [merged into BP Amoco (NYSE: BPA)]
Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB)
Citicorp [merged into Citigroup (NYSE: C)]
Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR)
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB)
MCI (merged into MCI WorldCom (NYSE: WCOM)]
Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE)

The following seven stocks are newcomers to the list this year:

Anheuser-Busch
Bank One
Carnival
Dayton Hudson
Gap
Texas Instruments
Waste Management

As of the close of trading on Tuesday, the following five stocks represent the current BSP Portfolio stocks (e.g. BSP 2-6):

Xerox
Bank One
Ford
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Fannie Mae

For the most up-to-the-nanosecond listing of the current BSP stocks, check out Yotommy's calculator.

Next week we'll do a little more analysis of the new BSP 30. Some interesting trends are developing!

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Beating the S&Pyear-to-date returns (as of 03-23-99):

Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB)    +23.1%
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB)  -11.1%
Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB)   -24.4%
Ford Motor Co.  (NYSE: F)    -2.3%
BankAmerica  (NYSE: BAC)    +15.5%
Beating the S&P                  +0.2%
Standard & Poor's 500 Index      +3.0%

Compound Annual Growth Rate from 1-2-87:
Beating the S&P                  +20.3%
S&P 500                          +17.7%

$10,000 invested on 1-2-87 now equals:
Beating the S&P                 $95,500   
S&P 500                         $72,900

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