The Daily Workshop Report
by Robert Sheard (TMF Sheard)

LEXINGTON, KY. (Sept. 2, 1997) -- In recent weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about whether the party is over for large-cap (Blue Chip) stocks, or whether sticking with these iron horses is a great way to get to the big city. But just what stocks are we really talking about?

Here's a list of the 100 largest American stocks based on market capitalization (listed here in millions of dollars). Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the number of outstanding shares by the current price per share. (The data in this list comes from Value Line for Windows and is dated as of August 27.)

So whether you're looking at Relative Strength for these giants, or high-yield approach to supplement the Foolish Four, or another screening technique, here is the list of the biggies you can work from. Fool on!

205,843 Gen'l Electric (GE)
164,046 Intel Corp. (INTC)
161,250 Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
157,051 Exxon Corp. (XON)
145,333 Coca-Cola (KO)
112,111 Merck & Co. (MRK)
109,942 Philip Morris (MO)
103,163 Int'l Business Mach. (IBM)
92,291 Procter & Gamble (PG)
81,419 Wal-Mart Stores (WMT)
77,250 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
75,491 Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY)
72,676 Du Pont (DD)
71,579 Pfizer Inc. (PFE)
67,697 Amer. Int'l Group (AIG)
65,093 AT&T Corp. (T)
63,511 Hewlett-Packard (HWP)
62,071 Citicorp (CCI)
58,893 Mobil Corp. (MOB)
58,524 Eli Lilly (LLY)
58,290 Bell Atlantic Corp. (BEL)
56,726 PepsiCo Inc. (PEP)
53,851 Disney (DIS)
52,237 Chevron Corp. (CHV)
52,050 Ford Motor (F)
51,594 Lucent Technologies (LU)
51,184 Cisco Systems (CSCO)
50,667 SBC Communications (SBC)
48,985 Chase Manhattan Corp. (CMB)
47,995 Amoco Corp. (AN)
47,914 BankAmerica Corp. (BAC)
47,480 Fannie Mae (FNM)
47,149 Gillette (G)
46,800 Gen'l Motors (GM)
46,604 Abbott Labs. (ABT)
46,583 NationsBank Corp. (NB)
46,107 Amer. Home Products (AHP)
45,285 BellSouth Corp. (BLS)
45,245 Motorola Inc. (MOT)
44,928 Compaq Computer (CPQ)
42,853 GTE Corp. (GTE)
41,192 Travelers Group (TRV)
38,431 Boeing (BA)
38,366 Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB)
38,086 Minnesota Mining (MMM)
37,863 Amer. Express (AXP)
37,601 Oracle Corp. (ORCL)
36,420 Home Depot (HD)
35,305 Schering-Plough (SGP)
35,210 Ameritech Corp. (AIT)
34,362 Warner-Lambert (WLA)
33,284 McDonald's Corp. (MCD)
32,877 Allstate Corp. (ALL)
30,901 Texaco Inc. (TX)
30,636 Dell Computer (DELL)
28,401 Morgan S. Dean Witter (MWD)
27,678 WorldCom Inc. (WCOM)
27,388 Kimberly-Clark (KMB)
27,196 First Union Corp. (FTU)
26,915 Time Warner (TWX)
26,030 Monsanto (MTC)
25,069 NYNEX Corp. (NYN)
24,653 Atlantic Richfield (ARC)
24,598 Xerox Corp. (XRX)
24,544 Emerson Electric (EMR)
24,507 Chrysler (C)
23,791 AlliedSignal Inc. (ALD)
23,621 Banc One Corp. (ONE)
23,445 Computer Associates (CA)
23,239 Freddie Mac (FRE)
22,774 Caterpillar Inc. (CAT)
22,713 Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC)
22,417 Texas Instruments (TXN)
22,319 Campbell Soup (CPB)
22,276 First Chicago NBD (FCN)
22,209 Eastman Kodak (EK)
22,077 Sears Roebuck (S)
21,648 Medtronic Inc. (MDT)
21,575 Norwest Corp. (NOB)
21,369 Columbia/HCA Healthcare (COL)
21,334 Anheuser-Busch (BUD)
20,822 Dow Chemical (DOW)
20,566 Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER)
20,423 Lockheed Martin (LMT)
20,324 Morgan (J.P.) & Co (JPM)
19,993 Sara Lee Corp. (SLE)
19,625 MCI Communications (MCIC)
19,246 Kellogg (K)
19,002 Tyco Int'l Ltd. (TYC)
18,929 Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
18,655 United Technologies (UTX)
18,621 First Data Corp. (FDC)
18,351 Sun Microsystems (SUNW)
18,265 U.S. Bancorp (USB)
18,145 Electronic Data Sys. (EDS)
17,826 Applied Materials (AMAT)
17,805 Bank of New York (BK)
17,748 U S West Communic. (USW)
17,706 Pharmacia & Upjohn (PNU)
17,633 Duke Energy (DUK)

Monthly Growth Screens
(Jan. 3 to present)
75.85%  Relative Strength  
33.57%  Investing for Growth  
24.01%  S&P 500 Index  
23.99%  Low Price/Sales  
21.92%  YPEG Potential  
21.49%  EPS Plus RS  
13.02%  Unemotional Growth  
11.44%  Formula 90  

Annual Value Screens
(Jan. 1 to present)
24.06%  Dogs of the Dow  
22.20%  Dow Jones Ind Avg  
19.65%  Beating the S&P  
19.16%  Dow Combo  
18.21%  Unemotional Value  
18.21%  Beating the Dow  
10.95%  Foolish Four