SecurityStockWatch.com 100 Index Monthly Chart - January 2006

SSW 100 Index Posts Third Consecutive Record High in January

Posting a sharp 7% rise from 193 to 206 in December, the SSW 100 Index posted a new high for the third month in a row. It far outperformed the majors. While well below the performance of the SSW 100 Index, the NASDAQ posted a healthy 4.6% increase from 2.205 to 2.306 (165 to 173 on a comparable index basis) while the other two majors lagged behind. The S&P 500 rose 2.6% from 1,248 to 1,260 (142 to 145 on a comparable index basis) and the Dow posted a modest 1.4% gain from 10,718 to 10,865 (128 to 130 on a comparable index basis). Note that the SSW 100 Index now stands almost 60% higher than the Dow on a comparable index basis.

Gainers outnumbered losers by a 3 to 1 margin, 75 up, 23 down and 2 even. Thirty stocks posted gains of greater than 10% with twelve of those increasing by more than 20%. Of the losers, only 6 stocks dropped by more than 10%.

 Those rising by more than 20% were:

Identix up 59% to $7.99
Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals up 48% to $7.17
RSA Security up 37% to $15.37
Digimarc up 32% to $7.76
CyberSource up 31% to $8.66
Ceradyne up 31% to $57.24
Magal Security Systems up 31% to $11.43
Atmel up 28% to $3.95
Calgon Carbon up 28% to $7.26
Intelli-Check up 26% to $4.90
SAFLINK up 25% to $0.99
Shaw Group up 22% to $35.62

 Declining by more than 10% were:

Intergraph down 23% to $38.21
Juniper Networks down 19% to $18.13
Entrust down 17% to $4.03
Tumbleweed Communications down 14% to $2.66
M Systems Flash Disk Pioneers down 13% to $28.98
Deluxe down 11% to $26.78

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