CORPORATIONS, May 2000; Internet Prospector

May 2000
Internet Prospector

CORPORATIONS

CONTENTS:
Researching Companies Online
Worth Online - The 50 Best CEOs
Dow 101: Five Little Known Facts About the DJIA
Forbes CEO 2000: Corporate America's Most Powerful People

RESEARCHING COMPANIES ONLINE

Sprintmail sponsors a nice site for finding free company and industry information on the Web. Of particular interest to researchers are links to:

Locate high-level company information
Find sales prospects (and donor prospects)
Locate company home pages
Research company financial information
Monitor company news and periodicals
Business and financial meta-sites
Learn about an industry
Identify international business resources

A list of links-only can be accessed by clicking on the word Links in the left margin.

http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/index.html

WORTH ONLINE - THE 50 BEST CEOS

Worth Online's May 2000 issue brings its second annual ranking of The 50 Best CEOs of publicly-traded companies. Cisco Systems' John Chambers heads this year's list.

You'll need to register (free) to access the current issue, but you can also search some of their archived classics, such as The 250 Richest Towns in America, Collected Cover Stories and The Complete Peter Lynch Archives.

http://www.worth.com/home.html

DOW 101: FIVE LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE DJIA

What do you really know about the Dow Jones Industrials Average? Are you aware that . . .

It is not truly industrial?
It represents only 30 stocks?
It is not really an average?

Learn a lot from this tiny tutorial by Tasha Vincent.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/dow1.html

FORBES CEO 2000: CORPORATE AMERICA'S MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE

I'm checking under the couch cushions when these guys stand up! They are the 800 most highly compensated CEOs in America, making a combined total of $5.8 billion. They were ranked by their total compensation packages for 1999, including salary, bonuses and stock gains.

Six of the 10 highest paid CEOs work for high-tech firms. At the top of the list is Charles Wang, of Computer Associates International, with $650.1 million.

Forbes reports that just 23% of their compensation came from salaries and bonuses. The rest came from stock grants that vested or stock options they exercised. Five years ago, salaries and bonuses were 60% of total pay.

http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/ceo/

Beverly Goodwin

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