THE TIMES 100 / THE BEST PERFORMING COMPANIES IN AMERICA : A VIEW FROM THE STREET : Great Expectations

Companies ranked by analysts’ estimated earnings increase this year.

‘94 Estmtd 1994 1993 % Earnings Estimated Actual Rank Company Increase Earn/Share Earn/Share 1 Great Western Financial 507 1.70 .28 2 Pacific Telesis Group 428 2.80 .53 3 Cypress Semiconductor 362 .97 .21 4 Atlantic Richfield Co. 216 5.25 1.66 5 Apple Computer Inc. 126 1.65 .73 6 Chiron Corp. 115 1.18 .55 7 Mattel Inc. 113 1.64 .77 8 3Com Corp. 105 2.50 1.22 9 Oracle Systems Corp. 88 .90 .48 10 ALZA Corp. 85 1.00 .54 11 Cisco Systems 83 1.21 .66 12 National Semiconductor 82 1.78 .98 13 VLSI Technology 78 .80 .45 14 Applied Materials 74 2.10 1.21 15 Genentech Inc. 70 .85 .50 16 Walt Disney Co. 67 2.05 1.23 17 Chevron Corp. 59 6.20 3.89 18 Xilinx Inc. 48 1.70 1.15 19 Silicon Graphics Inc. 47 .88 .60 20 Altera Corp. 44 1.45 1.01

Rank Analysts 1 15 2 28 3 17 4 36 5 32 6 23 7 16 8 22 9 29 10 15 11 26 12 24 13 16 14 18 15 22 16 29 17 37 18 18 19 21 20 17

Source: STAR Services.