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columns. But I do read the headlines, and if a quick glance tells me a col-
umn is talking about some situation I’m interested in, I’ll read it.

2,500 Leading Stocks (NYSE + Nasdaq Research Tables)
A powerhouse element we’ve added recently is the way we organize and dis-
play our one-of-a-kind stock tables. We call them “Research Tables”
because we have a boatload of data on each company. IBD follows up to
2,500 stocks, combining New York and Nasdaq stocks in one table, whereas
some of our competitors carry only 1,000 stocks and have nothing close to
the critical ratings and data we provide for each company.
Right off the bat, you’ll see that our “2,500 Leading Stocks” tables
starting on page B3 are organized in order of the strongest of 33 broad
economic sectors. Almost everyone else’s tables are organized alphabeti-
cally. For decades, Americans used the stock tables in their local newspa-
per or in one of our financial competitors just to look up where their
stocks closed yesterday: “Was my General Motors up, or was it down?”
While it’s nice to be able to check how your stock did, these days you can
get quotes anywhere on the Web. What we’re doing is making the tables
an advanced research lab to help you discover the next big leading stock
you’ll want to invest in. Here’s what we’re able to do with how we display
the tables.
This particular issue confirms what we saw in other tables: that the “Med-
ical” sector is number one. Then we show every one of the stocks in the
medical field, listed alphabetically. Each has a composite rating, which goes
from 0 to 99, with 99 being the very best. This is an overall rating that con-
siders key individual ratings. (Of course, this current rating could decline if