IPOS: FULL CREDIT TO ALL UNDERWRITERS,
RANKED BY AFTER-MARKET PERFORMANCE*
Underwriter

(Number Of IPOs As Lead/Co-Manager)

# After-Market Performance (Average)


Piper Jaffray & Co. (1/2) +30%
Rodman & Renshaw (0/2) +30%
JMP Securities LLC (0/4) +27%
Bank of America Securities (2/3) +17%
Cowen & Co. (1/1) +15%
Leerink Swann & Co. (0/4) +13%
JP Morgan Securities (3/4) +11%
CIBC World Markets (0/2) +9%
Merrill Lynch & Co. (2/2) +2%
Natexis Bleichroeder Inc. (0/2) -1%
UBS Investment Bank (3/3) -1%
Morgan Stanley (4/4) -7%
Deutsche Bank Securities (1/1) -9%
Thomas Weisel Partners (0/1) -9%
Susquehanna Financial (0/1) -14%
Lazard Capital Markets LLC (0/4) -15%
Pacific Growth Equities (0/4) -16%
Jefferies & Co. (2/2) -18%
C.E. Unterberg, Towbin (1/1) -19%
I-Bankers Securities (0/1) -19%
Lehman Brothers (3/3) -21%
Bear, Stearns & Co. (1/1) -26%
Montgomery & Co. (0/1) -26%
Credit Suisse Securities (0/1) -27%
Maxim Group LLC (2/2) -28%
Oppenheimer & Co. (0/2) -35%
Caris & Co. (0/1) -36%
AG Edwards Securities (0/1) -50%
RBC Capital Markets (1/1) -50%

Notes
* The offerings in this chart include only those that were completed on U.S. stock exchanges (NASDAQ, NYSE or AMEX) from Jan. 1 Aug. 31, 2007. Gross proceeds include additional funding raised from the exercise of overallotment options, when disclosed.
# After-market performance is expressed as the percent change in stock price between the offering price and the closing price on 9/14/07. For underwriters with multiple offerings, the after-market performance (as a percent change) was calculated for each stock in that underwriter's "group," the percentage summed, and then averaged.