WEEKLY SCORECARD : STOCK GROUP WINNERS & LOSERS : Best- and worst-performing industries and companies in each group, with closing stock price, for the week ended Aug. 31. Only stocks trading for $1 or higher are included.

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Sept. 3, 1990 12 AM PT

BEST PERFORMERS

1) Food, confections: +7.9% Hershey Foods (38): +11%

2) Housewares, furniture: +7.6% Genlyte Group (5): +25%

3) Freight, shipping: +7.2% Nortankers Inc. (9): +28.6%

4) Shoes, leather: +6.6% Suave Shoe (10 3/8): +29.7%

5) Personal services: +6.6% Concorde CC (2 5/8): +31.3%

6) Cosmetic, personal care: +6.5% Jean Philippe (1 7/8): +66.7%

7) Drug manufacturers: +6.2% Summa Medical (2 1/4): +63.6%

8) Retail, food stores: +6.1% Atlantic (1 1/2): +50%

9) Health: +5.9% Novametrix Med. (1 5/8): +44.4%

10) Recreation: +5.6% Designcraft (2): +33.3%

WORST PERFORMERS

1) Metals, rare: -4.6% Brush Creek (1 1/4): -16.7%

2) Oil, natural gas: -0.7% Callon Consol. (1 7/8): -11.8%

3) Real estate: -0.3% TLM Corp. (2): -11.1% 4) Utilities, gas/others: -0.5% Florida Pub. Util. (14): -6.7%

5) Iron, steel: -0.6% CCX Inc. (1 5/8): -13.3%

6) Nonferrous metals, coal: -0.9% General Metals (1 5/8): -18.75%

7) Machinery, light equipment: -1.4% Allied Research (1 5/8): -13.3%

8) Retail, apparel: -1.5% One Price Cloth. (9 7/8): -28.2%

9) Credit: -1.6% Angeles Mortgage (12): -8.6%

10) Building: -1.8% Liberty Homes (5): -16.7%

Source: Media General Financial Services