Most Chicago-area stocks closed little changed in a holiday-shortened trading week.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings rose $4.25, or 6 percent, for the week, to $73.85. The stock was added to the Russell 1000 index of large-company stocks.
Deerfield-based Baxter International slipped just 15 cents last week, to $25, despite the company’s decision to eliminate 2,500 jobs and trim its profit outlook for 2003.
Chicago-based General Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust, added $2.35, or nearly 4 percent, to an all-time high, $65.25. The company completed several property acquisitions last week.
Career Education also hit an all-time high Thursday, $73.81. Shares gained $4.77, or 7 percent, to $72.50. The company completed its merger with Whitman Education.
Medical waste disposal service Stericycle, Lake Forest, reached an all-time high Thursday, $42.60, and closed the week up $3.89, or 10 percent, to $42.15.
How they fared
Results are based on market capitalization of the region’s public companies as of Thursday, July 3, 2003.
%% MKT CAP STOCK
RANKING COMPANY FRIDAY VALUE WKLY. % 12-MO. %
7/3 6/27 CLOSE (MIL.) CHANGE RETURN *
1 1 Abbott Labs 44.22 69,025 1.42 22.7
2 2 Kraft Foods 32.08 55,545 -1.54 -18.5
3 3 Bank One 37.02 42,505 -1.33 3.6
4 4 Walgreen 29.82 30,562 -1.49 -18.1
5 5 McDonald’s 22.62 28,779 1.12 -17.2
6 6 Boeing 34.58 27,668 1.05 -20.3
7 7 Allstate 37.60 26,467 3.58 5.3
8 8 Motorola 9.57 22,161 2.03 -30.8
9 9 Illinois Tool Works 65.61 20,179 -0.15 1.1
10 10 Exelon 59.73 19,366 0.12 22.6
11 11 Caterpillar 55.57 19,141 -0.46 21.2
12 14 Sara Lee 19.31 15,006 4.72 -1.3
13 13 Tribune 48.36 14,942 0.92 14.8
14 12 Baxter Intl. 25.00 14,937 -0.60 -38.8
15 15 Wm. Wrigley Jr. 56.30 12,670 0.10 2.3
16 16 Deere 46.23 11,066 1.34 -0.8
17 17 Equity Office Prop. 27.47 11,062 2.54 1.4
18 18 Sears Roebuck 33.08 10,160 -0.84 -33.0
19 19 Northern Trust 41.35 9,114 0.12 2.1
20 20 Archer Daniels Mid. 12.97 8,358 1.33 6.7
21 22 Newell Rubbermaid 27.97 7,669 0.33 -14.6
22 21 Fortune Brands 52.35 7,607 -1.16 -0.4
23 23 Aon 23.53 7,345 -3.16 -13.6
24 24 Equity Residential 26.72 7,282 2.19 1.5
25 25 CNA Financial 25.01 5,592 -0.75 -3.8
26 27 NiSource 19.73 5,180 3.72 -2.8
27 26 Molex 27.06 5,171 -1.24 -12.3
28 28 W.W. Grainger 46.70 4,279 -0.44 0.3
29 29 Old Republic 34.53 4,165 -0.36 14.8
30 30 Gen. Growth Prop. 65.25 4,100 3.74 36.3
31 31 CDW 48.30 4,045 4.85 9.9
32 34 Career Education 72.50 3,377 7.04 68.7
33 32 Smurfit-Stone 13.28 3,258 -0.09 -7.7
34 35 ServiceMaster 10.55 3,153 0.00 -16.8
35 33 Pactiv 19.50 3,109 -1.46 -14.4
36 36 Alberto-Culver 52.07 3,054 3.07 12.2
37 37 Tele. & Data Sys. 52.92 3,043 3.75 -7.6
38 38 R.R. Donnelley 26.05 2,951 0.89 3.0
39 39 Tellabs 6.61 2,725 -0.15 17.5
40 40 First Health Group 27.87 2,657 0.30 5.4
41 42 Nuveen Invstmnts. 27.68 2,556 5.97 9.9
42 43 Zebra Technologies 79.79 2,499 6.20 69.2
43 41 Arthur J. Gallagher 26.96 2,428 -3.23 -16.4
44 44 Chicago Merc. Exch. 73.85 2,407 6.08 N/A
45 48 Navistar 34.45 2,354 6.42 7.3
46 47 Hewitt Associates 23.53 2,317 3.21 6.7
47 46 Brunswick 25.15 2,270 0.67 -2.2
48 45 U.S. Cellular 26.12 2,249 -0.71 12.3
49 49 Pkg. Corp. of Amer. 18.39 1,924 -1.43 -1.8
50 50 Unitrin 28.30 1,911 3.35 -13.2
*Based on Wednesday’s stock close.
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