The Golden State Contingent

California-based firms in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, ranked by 52-week stock price change, as of April 18.

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Rank Company 52 week % change 1 Advanced Micro Devices 113 2 Intel Corp. 109 3 National Semiconductor 85 4 Great Western Fin. Corp. 76 5 Seagate Technology Inc. 56 6 H.F. Ahmanson & Co. 54 7 Clorox Co. 48 8 Times Mirror Co. 43 9 BankAmerica Corp. 38 10 Edison International 37 11 Northrop Grumman Corp. 37 12 Avery Dennison Corp. 34 13 Tandem Computers Inc. 29 14 Applied Materials 28 15 Tenet Healthcare Corp. 25 16 Walt Disney Co. 22 17 Pacific Enterprises 22 18 Golden West Financial 21 S&P; 500 INDEX 19 19 Oracle Corp. 17 20 Chevron Corp. 16 21 Unocal Corp. 16 22 Atlantic Richfield Co. 14 23 Transamerica Corp. 14 24 Gap Inc. 13 25 Rockwell International 12 26 LSI Logic Corp. 11 27 Fleetwood Enterprises 9 28 Sun Microsystems Inc. 8 29 Longs Drug Stores Corp. 8 30 Western Atlas Inc. 5 31 PG&E; Corp. 5 32 Cisco Systems Inc. 5 33 Amgen Inc. 0 34 Hilton Hotels Corp. 0 35 Hewlett-Packard Co. 0 36 Wells Fargo & Co. 0 37 Potlatch Corp. -4 38 Mattel Inc. -4 39 Raychem Corp. -8 40 Kaufman & Broad Home -10 41 ALZA Corp. -10 42 AirTouch Communications -15 43 Occidental Petroleum Corp. -16 44 Computer Sciences Corp. -17 45 Fluor Corp. -18 46 Allergan Inc. -18 47 Amdahl Corp. -24 48 Autodesk Inc. -26 49 Apple Computer Inc. -26 50 3Com Corp. -26 51 Homestake Mining Co. -28 52 Bay Networks Inc. -40 53 Silicon Graphics Inc. -49

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