| Index of coverage | Top Ten 1. Teradyne Inc. 2. Analog Devices Inc. 3. LTX Corp. 4. EMC Corp. 5. Helix Tech. Corp. 6. ACT Manufacturing 7. Millipore Corp. 8. Talbots Inc. 9. Cytyc Corp. 10. FleetBoston Year's Best Company of year Highest Market Value Fastest Growth Biggest Stock Gain Comeback of the Year Highest Sales Contents Overall performance Banking Biotech Growth   1. ACT Manuf.   2. Provant Inc.   3. Analog Devices   4. Sapient Corp.   5. Foilmark Inc. Bulls and Bears   Bulls   1. J. Jill Group   2. Inverness Medical   3. Reebok Intl.   4. Bostonfed Bancorp   5. John Hancock   Bears   1. Aztec Tech.   2. Engage Inc.   3. CMGI Inc.   4. Telaxis Comm.   5. NaviSite Inc. Employment IPOs Profitability Sales The Globe 100 Market value 100 Sales 100 Return on equity 100 Growth 50 Highest leveraged Top employers Most productive Industry summary Biggest profits Biggest losses The Bulls The Bears Top profit margins Debt-free companies Street's darlings Street's wallflowers 2000 Mass. IPOs Recoveries Nose Dives All the charts for this year's Globe 100    | 2000 Globe 100 | Search the Globe: Today Yesterday

3. CMGI INC. Dot-com success unravel quickly 5/22/2001     BEARS & BULLS Old economy companies led Bay State Bulls The shining lights of the local investment world were companies that sell sneakers, blood tests, clothes for middle-age women, and life insurance. Continued THE BULLS 1. J. Jill Group 2. Inverness Medical Tech. 3. Reebok Intl. 4. Bostonfed Bancorp 5. John Hancock Financial THE BEARS 1. Aztec Tech. Partners 2. Engage Inc. 3. CMGI Inc. 4. Telaxis Communications 5. NaviSite Inc. The Bulls The Bears All the charts hen the "dot-bombs'' started blowing up last year, CMGI, of Andover, was at ground zero. CMGI -- in some ways, it's the Net era's answer to the corporate conglomerate fad of the 1960s, with over 60 subsidiaries and investment properties -- saw its shares lose 97.8 percent of their value in the year that ended March 31. It has since bounced back from its sub-$2 level after shrewd Wall Street investors figured out that the company's $1 billion-plus worth of cash and securities were worth more than the share price. But CMGI has fallen painfully far from its peak of over $160, when it made its name catching the early wave of dot-com mania, reaping huge profits from its @Ventures unit's investments. In January, CMGI took a $2 billion write-off for faltering investments. And with the once-manic market for Internet IPOs moribund, investors seem to lack confidence that a company that made its name investing in and spinning out start-ups can successfully adjust to life as an operating company running units such as the NaviSite Web-hosting business, the Internet search engine AltaVista, and Activate, a concern that delivers streaming content. "We don't know what it is anymore, or what it wants to be when it grows up,'' Steve Frankel, an Internet analyst with the Boston investment bankers Adams, Harkness & Hill, said last month. PETER J. HOWE

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