Results of 1992–2001 Baldrige Award Recipients 10-Year Common Stock Comparison

Methodology:

A hypothetical sum was invested in each of the 1992–2001, publicly traded Baldrige Award recipients’ common stock, in the year they applied for the Award. The investment was tracked from the first business day of the month following the announcement of the Award recipients, (or the date when they began public trading, if it is later) through December 2, 2002. One thousand dollars was invested in each whole company, and for subsidiaries the sum invested was $1,000 multiplied by the percent of the whole company's employee base the subunit represented at the time of its application. The same total dollar amount was invested in the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 on the same day. If a subunit was sold to another parent company, or if a company divested or merged, it was the subunit whose progress was followed, not the parent company's progress. The value of the original stock at the time of sale was determined and that dollar amount was reinvested in the new parent company.

Adjusting for stock splits, the value on December 2, 2002 was calculated. Information is reported two ways: all publicly traded Award recipients and only whole company Baldrige Award recipients. The 19 publicly traded Award recipients, as a group, underperformed the S&P 500 by approximately -0.53 to 1, with a -23.74% return compared to a 45.16% return for the S&P 500. The two publicly traded, whole company Award recipients underperformed the S&P 500 by about -0.71 to 1, with a -34.19% return compared to a 48.02% return for the S&P 500. A summary of the results follows.

1992–2001 Publicly Traded Award Recipients

1992–2001 Publicly Traded Whole Company Award Recipients

Results of 1992–2001 Baldrige Site-Visited Applicants 10-Year Common Stock Comparison

Methodology:

A hypothetical sum was invested in each 1992–2001 publicly traded, site-visited applicants’ common stock in the year they applied for the Award or in the year they became public. The investment was tracked from the first business day of the month following the announcement of the Baldrige Award recipients (or the date when they began public trading, if it is later) through December 2, 2002. One thousand dollars was invested in each whole site-visited company. For subsidiaries, the sum invested was $1,000 multiplied by the percent of the parent company's employee base the subunit represented at the time they received a site visit or at the time they became public as a result of a merger or acquisition by a new parent. The same total dollar amount was invested in the S&P 500 on the same day.

Adjusting for stock splits, the value on December 2, 2002 was calculated. Information is reported two ways: all publicly traded, site-visited applicants and only whole company, site-visited applicants. (Note: a company may be included multiple times if they received more than one site visit. Site-visited applicants include those receiving an Award.) Names of Baldrige applicants are kept confidential.

The 52 publicly traded, site-visited applicants, as a group, underperformed the S&P 500 by approximately 0.26 to 1, with a 13.23% return compared to a 51.06% return for the S&P 500. The seven publicly traded, whole company, site-visited applicants underperformed the S&P 500 by about –0.11 to 1, with a -6.57% return compared to a 58.70% return for the S&P 500. A summary of the results follows.

1992 - 2001 Publicly Traded Site Visited Award Applicants

1992 - 2001 Publicly Traded Whole Company Site Visited Award Applicants

AWARD RECIPIENTS INCLUDED IN THE STOCK STUDY
(Those not included were not publicly held at the time of the study.)

Whole Company Award Recipients
Eastman Chemical Company (1993)
Solectron Corporation (1997)

Subunit Award Recipients (with parent company)
(The sum invested was $1000 x the % of the parent company’s employee base that the subunit represented at the time the subunit applied.)*

3M Dental Products Division (1997)
3M

Armstrong Building Products Operations (1995)
Armstrong World Industries, Inc.

AT&T Consumer Communication Services (1994)
AT&T Business

AT&T Network Systems – Transmission Systems Business Unit (1992)
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Network Systems

AT&T Universal Card Services (1992)
Citigroup, Inc.

Boeing Airlift and Tanker Programs (1998)
The Boeing Company

Corning Telecommunications Products Division (1995)
Corning Incorporated

Dana Commercial Credit Corporation (1996)
Dana Corporation

Dana Spicer Driveshaft Division (2000)
Dana Corporation

GTE Directories Corporation (1994)
Verizon

Merrill Lynch Credit Corporation (1997)
Merrill Lynch & Co.