SecurityStockWatch.com 100 Index Monthly Chart - July 2005

SSW 100 Index Jumps 7.4% in July

The SSW 100 Index was up sharply 7.4% in July, rising from 172 to 185 and outperformed the major indexes once more. It more than doubled the Dow and S&P 500. Both rose by 3.6%: The S&P 500 rising from 1,191 to 1,234 (135 to 140 on a comparable index basis) and the Dow moving from 10,275 to 10,641 (123 to 128 on a comparable index basis). The NASDAQ was also up sharply rising 6.2% from 2,057 to 2,185 (154 to 164 on a comparable index basis), but was still below the increase in the SSW 100 Index.

Gainers far outpaced decliners by a margin of 80 to 19, with one even. Over half of the gainers (41) were up more than 10% and fifteen of them posted better than 20% increases. Only three of the decliners fell by more than 10%.

Better than 20% increases were achieved by:

Tumbleweed Communications up 43% to $3.73
Magal Security Systems up 37% to $10.84
M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers up 35% to $25.85
Ceradyne up 32 % to $31.87
Cubist Pharmaceuticals up 30% to %17.09
AuthentiDate up 26% to $3.36
Digital River up 26% to $39.98
Entrust up 25% to $6.00
Headwaters up 24% to $42.75
CyberGuard up 23% to $7.30
Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals up 22% to $9.05
Gen-Probe up 22% to $44.09
Verint Systems up 21% to $38.98
Abgenix up 21% to $10.37
Viisage Technology up 21% to $5.41

The only issues down by more than 10% were American Science & Engineering down 13% to $38.49, The Shaw Group down 11% to $19.12 and Fargo Electronics down 11% to $17.79.

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