Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks: Spring 2005

Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks(TM) offers you quick and easy access to key financial statistics on approximately 900 New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. This handbook, updated quarterly, presents market data, performance ratios, stock prices, and dividend information of recent quarterly results as well as future prospects in succinct one-page profiles. Filled with the latest available facts and figures, Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks helps you make the most informed investment decisions. Each full-page company profile includes: Business Summary — highlights products, markets and business lines; Summary of recent developments, including latest quarterly earnings reports; Future prospects analysis; Stock movement charts showing 10-year records of monthly highs and lows and trading volumes, if available; Ten years of income statement and balance sheet data, if available; Dividend payment record; Key performance ratios; Institutional holdings— number of institutions and number of shares held; Officers, address, phone and fax numbers, Web sites, transfer agents, auditor, investor contact and legal counsel and more. Plus, special addenda that includes: Companies added and dropped; Recent and pending dividends and splits; Recent dividend changes; Recent and pending name changes; Latest developments and more. A Century of Providing Trusted Information For over a century, Mergent has been the preferred source for global business and financial information by providing comprehensive data to savvy investors, both novice and professional. Mergents business research tools offer a convenient way to quickly identify potential investment opportunities withthe most reliable and complete business and financial information available.