Wall Street Blues

Company

Dec. 31, 2001,
closing price

Aug. 23, 2002,
closing price

Year-to-date performance

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.
Child care/ early-education centers

$27.99

$29.00

+3.6%

Edison Schools Inc.
Public and charter school management

19.65

0.58

-97.0

LeapFrog Enterprises Inc.
Educational toys/ products

*

17.09

+31.5

Lightspan Inc.
Educational software/ Internet products

1.38

1.69

+22.5

Nobel Learning Communities Inc.
Private and charter school management

6.21

7.38

+18.8

PLATO Learning Inc.
Educational software

16.61

8.01

-51.8

Princeton Review Inc.
Test preparation/ educational services

7.65

6.55

-14.4

Renaissance Learning Inc.
Educational software/
services

30.47

18.85

-38.1

Riverdeep Group PLC
Educational software/ Internet products

16.81

16.52

-1.7

Scholastic Corp.
Educational/children’s publishing

50.33

42.47

-15.6

School Specialty Inc.
Educational supplies

22.88

23.18

+1.3

Sylvan Learning Systems Inc.
Tutoring/educational services

22.07

14.46

-34.5

Dow Jones Industrial Average

10,021.50

8,872.96

-11.5

Standard & Poor’s 500

1,148.08

940.86

-18.0

Nasdaq Composite

1,950.40

1,380.62

-29.2

*LeapFrog Enterprises had an initial public offering of $13 a share and began trading July 25, 2002,on the New York Stock Exchange.

SOURCE: Banc of America Securities Inc.