THE TIMES 100 : VIEW FROM THE STREET : Charging Ahead

Companies ranked by percent gain in stock price.

% Change 4/20/93 3/31/92 Stock Stock Stock Rank Company Price Price Price 1 SynOptics Communications 417 108.63 21.00 2 New Image Industries 297 15.88 4.00 3 Fibreboard Corp. 194 12.88 4.38 4 Conversion Industries 169 18.13 6.75 5 Callaway Golf 165 33.25 12.56 6 Electronic Arts Inc. 159 30.75 11.88 7 NTN Communications 152 9.13 3.63 8 Hollywood Park 151 23.25 9.25 9 Oracle Systems Corp. 151 33.88 13.50 10 Price Stern Sloan Inc. 146 8.00 3.25 11 3Com Corp. 145 31.25 12.75 12 Cytocare Inc. 141 6.94 2.88 13 Centigram Communications 139 16.75 7.00 14 Silicon General Inc. 131 13.00 5.63 15 Lam Research Corp. 130 29.63 12.88 16 Aspect Telecommunications 125 17.75 7.88 17 Cisco Systems 119 43.25 19.75 18 Mercury General Corp. 118 33.00 15.13 19 Fidelity National Financial 118 23.63 10.83 20 Sybase Inc. 117 55.25 25.50 21 GTI Corp. 115 25.00 11.63 22 MMI Medical 111 5.75 2.73 23 Cohu Inc. 109 23.75 11.38 24 Earth Technology 107 7.00 3.38 25 Sunamerica 106 33.50 16.25

Source: STAR Services. Certain historical data is from Standard & Poor’s Compustat Inc.