Underwriter (Number of IPOs As Lead/Number
Of IPOs As Lead Or Co-manager)

After-Market Performance
(Average)


Banc of America Securities (0/1)

-24%

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (1/1)

-24%

CIBC World Markets Corp. (1/3)

-30%

Merrill Lynch & Co. (1/1)

-30%

Thomas Weisel Partners LLC (1/1)

-30%

Dain Rauscher Wessels (0/1)

-37%

Fidelity Capital Markets (0/1)

-37%

Lehman Brothers Inc. (1/1)

-37%

Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. (0/1)

-37%


* The offerings in this chart include only those that were completed on U.S. stock exchanges (NASDAQ, NYSE or AMEX) from January ­ Aug. 17, 2001. 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 8/17/01. 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.