Friday, January 19, 2007

Yahoo! leads all Innovators - The Innovation Index up 5% in 2007

The Innovation Index gained 1% for the week ending January 17, 2007, and is already up 5% in 2007. The major indices gained 1% each last week. NASDAQ is up 3%, whereas S & P 500 and the Dow Jones Index are each up 1% in 2007.



The Innovation Index closed at 72.58 on January 17, 2007, up 3.20 points from the closing price of 69.38 on December 29, 2006.
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is leading the top 20 innovators with 14% stock performance gain for the year. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) are in hot pursuit gaining 12% and 8% each. Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) gained 4% for the week, and is up 6% in 2007, already beating its 2006 gains of 5%. Only three of the 20 innovators are in red.

I posted The Innovation Index Annual Report comprising three Chapters:

Chapter One - Total Innovation Activity at The Top 20 Innovators

Chapter Three - The Innovation Insights and Roundup

I will be posting an analysis of last week's Innovation Activity at The Top 20 Innovators by early next week.

About The Innovation Index

The Innovation Index introduced in December, 2006 is a weighted stock price index of the top 20 Innovators in North America.

The Innovation Index has returned 119% over the last five years. This assumes an investment in each stock of The Innovation Index (buying each stock). An average of $100 invested in The Innovation Index on December 31, 2001 returned $219 as of December 29, 2006. By comparison, $100 invested in each of S & P 500, NASDAQ and Dow Jones Index returned $124. The Innovation Index beats the S & P 500, NASDAQ and Dow Jones Index by 77% over the last five years.

The Normalized Innovation Index is even more impressive, and has returned 174% over the last five years. This assumes equal investment in each stock of The Innovation Index.

The alphabetical list of the top 20 Innovators of The Innovation Index along with their stock ticker symbols are presented below:

3M Company - (NYSE: MMM)
Amazon.com, Inc. - (NASDAQ: AMZN)
America Movile - (NYSE: AMX)
Apple Inc. - (NASDAQ: AAPL)
Cisco Systems, Inc. - (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Dell Inc. - (NASDAQ: DELL)
eBay Inc. - (NASDAQ: EBAY)
General Electric Co. - (NYSE: GE)
Google Inc. - (NASDAQ: GOOG)
Hewlett-Packard Co. - (NYSE: HPQ)
Intel Corporation - (NYSE: INTC)
International Business Machines Corp. - (NYSE: IBM)
Microsoft Corporation - (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Research In Motion Limited - (NASDAQ: RIMM)
Southwest Airlines Co. - (NYSE: LUV)
Starbucks Corporation - (NASDAQ: SBUX)
Target Corp. - (NYSE: TGT)
The Proctor & Gamble Company - (NYSE: PG)
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. - (NYSE: WMT)
Yahoo! Inc. - (NASDAQ: YHOO)

The Innovation Index will analyze the positions and standings of the top 20 Innovators at the end of each year. For 2007, there will be no further changes in The Innovation Index.
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