Stock Group Winners and Losers

Best- and worst-performing industries and companies in each group, with closing stock price, for the week ended July 19. Only stocks trading for $1 or higher are included.

BEST PERFORMERS 1) Oil, gas services: +6% Triton Energy (33 1/2): +42.6% 2) Cosmetics: +5.4% Beauty Labs (1 3/8): +22.2% 3) Credit: +4.2% Advanta (20 3/4): +20.3% 4) Banking: +4.1% Co Oper Bank (3): +60% 5) Oil, gas production: +3.7% Texas Meridian (1 5/8): +30% 6) Apparel: +3.5% Nutmeg Inds (10): +17.7% 7) Oil refining, marketing: +3.4% Enron (21): +14.3% 8) Light equipment: +3.4% Hein-Werner (7 1/2): +30.4% 9) Railroads: +3.2% Norfolk Southern: (49 7/8) +7% 10) Savings and loan: +2.9% Talman Home (9 1/8): +62.2%

WORST PERFORMERS 1) Tobacco: -1.8% Culbro (20 3/4): -5.1% 2) Automotive: -1.6% Autodie (2): -20% 3) Electrical Equipment: -1.5% LarDav (1 3/16): -9.5% 4) Airlines: -1.3% Airtran (9 1/8): -11% 5) Electronics: -0.8% Parlex (3 1/2): -22.2% 6) Publishing: -0.7% Dow Jones (25 5/8): -8.1% 7) Food stores: -0.6% Kroger (20 3/4): -12.2% 8) Chemicals +0.1% Grasso (4): -20% 9) Distillers/brewers: +0.2% Canandaigua A (23): -7.1% 10) Business equipment: +0.2% Aspen Imaging (1 3/16): -13.6% Source: Media General Financial Services