In its May 2006 issue, Intelligent Enterprise magazine named 12 companies “that will matter the most in the upcoming year”. Here’s how their stocks did in the subsequent six months…

			Stock price
No.	Ticker	Company	May 1, 2006	Nov. 1, 2006	6-month price return
1	BEAS	BEA Systems	13.43	15.37	14.45%
2	ORCL	Oracle	14.58	18.47	26.68%
3	IBM	International Business Machines	82.23	91.8	11.64%
4	NCR	NCR Corp. (parent company of Teradata)	39.9	41.21	3.28%
5	N/A	SAS	N/A	N/A	N/A
6	MSFT	Microsoft	24.29	28.81	18.61%
7	BOBJ	Business Objects	32.35	36.23	11.99%
8	EMC	EMC	13.32	12.21	-8.33%
9	PRGS	Progress Software	27.17	28.86	6.22%
10	HYSL	Hyperion Solutions	30.79	36.37	18.12%
11	N/A	Celequest	N/A	N/A	N/A
12	N/A	Savvion	N/A	N/A	N/A
		S&P 500	1,305.19	1,367.81	4.80%