The Daily Workshop Report
by Robert Sheard (TMF Sheard)

LEXINGTON, KY. (June 04, 1997)

Every once in a while, I'll use this column space for something useful, perhaps, if not very profound. Today is one of those days. A number of readers have written me, asking where to get a list of the largest American stocks so they can tinker with their own large-cap theories. As a public service then, here is a list of the 100 largest American stocks, ranked by market cap. Fool on!

Ticker      Company Name
GE           Gen'l Electric
KO          Coca-Cola
MSFT      Microsoft Corp.
XON        Exxon Corp.
INTC       Intel Corp.
MRK       Merck & Co.
MO          Philip Morris
PG            Procter & Gamble
IBM          Int'l Business Mach.
JNJ           Johnson & Johnson
BRKA      Berkshire Hathaway
BMY        Bristol-Myers Squibb
WMT       Wal-Mart Stores
PFE          Pfizer Inc.
DD          Du Pont
AIG         Amer. Int'l Group
T             AT&T Corp.
PEP         PepsiCo Inc.
DIS         Disney (Walt)
MOB      Mobil Corp.
HWP      Hewlett-Packard
CCI       Citicorp
LLY       Lilly (Eli)
ABT      Abbott Labs.
G           Gillette
AHP      Amer. Home Products
FNM     Fannie Mae
CHV     Chevron Corp.
CSCO   Cisco Systems
BLS       BellSouth Corp.
F            Ford Motor
AN       Amoco Corp.
GM      Gen'l Motors
GTE     GTE Corp.
BAC     BankAmerica Corp.
LU        Lucent Technologies
CMB    Chase Manhattan Corp.
MOT    Motorola Inc.
MMM  Minnesota Mining
BA       Boeing
AIT      Ameritech Corp.
TRV     Travelers Group
MCD   McDonald's Corp.
SBC     SBC Communications
NB       NationsBank Corp.
SGP      Schering-Plough
AXP     Amer. Express
ALL      Allstate Corp.
ORCL   Oracle Corp.
BEL       Bell Atlantic Corp.
HD         Home Depot
SLB       Schlumberger Ltd.
KMB     Kimberly-Clark
CPQ      Compaq Computer
TX         Texaco Inc.
EK         Eastman Kodak
WLA     Warner-Lambert
MCIC    MCI Communications
MTC      Monsanto
COL      Columbia/HCA Healthcare
FTU        First Union Corp.
TWX       Time Warner
EMR        Emerson Electric
WCOM   WorldCom Inc.
WFC       Wells Fargo & Co.
NYN       NYNEX Corp.
ARC        Atlantic Richfield
C            Chrysler
FRE        Federal Home Loan Mtg.
GMH      Hughes Electronics
XRX       Xerox Corp.
ALD       AlliedSignal Inc.
CPB       Campbell Soup
BUD      Anheuser-Busch
FON      Sprint Corp.
DOW     Dow Chemical
DELL     Dell Computer
S            Sears Roebuck
SLE        Sara Lee Corp.
CA         Computer Associates
JPM       Morgan (J.P.) & Co
NOB     Norwest Corp.
UTX       United Technologies
CAT       Caterpillar Inc.
EDS       Electronic Data Sys.
NKE       NIKE Inc. 'B'
FCN        First Chicago NBD
ONE        Banc One Corp.
LMT         Lockheed Martin
CL           Colgate-Palmolive
FDC        First Data Corp.
TXN        Texas Instruments
AMGN     Amgen
PNU         Pharmacia & Upjohn
MDT        Medtronic Inc.
USW        U S West Communic.
MER        Merrill Lynch & Co.
UNP        Union Pacific
FLT         Fleet Fin'l Group
HNZ         Heinz (H.J.)

Monthly Growth Screens
(Jan. 3 to present)
27.53%  Relative Strength  
13.68%  Low Price/Sales  
12.31%  S&P 500 Index  
-2.87%  YPEG Potential  
-5.21%  Investing for Growth  
-7.32%  Unemotional Growth  
-14.47%  EPS Plus RS  
-23.37%  Formula 90  

Annual Value Screens
(Jan. 1 to present)
14.69%  Dogs of the Dow  
12.74%  Dow Jones Ind Avg  
7.15%  Beating the S&P  
5.72%  Dow Combo  
5.30%  Unemotional Value  
5.30%  Beating the Dow  
-1.42%  Foolish Four