CORPORATIONS

CONTENTS:

• The Motley Fool
• Corporate Affiliations - Mergers & Acquisitions
• Diversity Business

THE MOTLEY FOOL

What does it take to invest like a Fool? Go to Fool's School to find out. Under Getting Started, click on How to Value Stocks. You'll begin by learning how to read a balance sheet. You'll also learn how to use earnings, revenues, cash-flow, equity and dividend yield to figure out how much a company is worth.

Look around for more -- a glossary, quotes and discussion boards -- even links to buy jesters' caps.

http://www.fool.com/school.htm

CORPORATE AFFILIATIONS - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Feeling foolish because you can't find a company that seems to have disappeared?

You may find it on the Mergers & Acquisitions page of CorporateAffiliations.com. It lists companies that have merged, gone out of business or changed names. Search for changes as recent as the past week, or in the archives back as far as 1976.

http://www.corporateaffiliations.com/dca/Executable/cn_mergers.asp?begins=A

DIVERSITY BUSINESS

DiversityBusiness.com has a nice collection of lists of "top diversity owned businesses" in the U.S. and in each state. Included are businesses owned by Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, multicultural individuals and women. For each company you'll find the ranking, the name of the principal officer, city, diversity category and annual sales.

Archived lists are available back to 2000.

Look in the Resources column on the right for the Diversity Lists link.

http://diversitybusiness.com/Resources/DivLists/2004/diversity/Default.asp

Beverly Goodwin

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