Business Times Top 100 Companies 1998

Capital gain plus dividends reinvested into shares over five years as a compound return on original investment.

Rank   1 2 3 4(2) 5 6 7 8(18) 9(17) 10 11(5) 12 13 14(1) 15(4) 16 17(11) 18(32) 19(3) 20(15) 21(22) 22 23(12) 24 25 26(67) 27 28(58) 29 30 31 32(39) 33(16) 34(33) 35 36(86) 37(26) 38(8) 39(44) 40 41(21) 42 43(23) 44(13) 45(62) 46(77) 47 48(24) 49(25) 50(49) 51(71) 52(84) 53(46) 54(92) 55 56 57(42) 58(90) 59 60(48) 61(51) 62 63(78) 64(41) 65(37) 66 67(91) 68(73) 69 70 71(34) 72 73(68) 74 75 76(76) 77(72) 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85(55) 86 87(68) 88 89 90(60) 91 92 93 94(52) 95 96(69) 97 98 99 100

Company   Protea Furnishers Tiger Wheels Gencor Dimension Data Spicer Usko Coronation Spescom Electronics African Life Assurance Log-Tek BOE Corporation Redgwoods Macadams Bakery Supplies Nu-World Morkels Retail Group Ceremic Industries Saambou Consolidated Frame Textiles Uniserv Commercial Finance Investec Griqualand Expl. & Finance Firstrand Micor Industrial Corp Shoprite Voltex Unihold Electronics Media FBC Fidelity Bank Duiker Mining RMB Nedcor JD Group CTP Midas Vogelstruisbuilt Metal Bidvest Group Barnato Exploration Metropolitan Life Jasco Electronics Concor Combined Motor Invicta Tweefontein United Coll. Genbel SA Gold Fields Coal Basil Read LTA Imperial Grintek Seardel Investment Corp Siltek Fedsure Anglo American Coal Corp Lion Match Times Media Perskor Groep Bpk Amalgamated Retail Hicor Macmed Health Care Sage Group British American Tobacco ABSA Group Speciality Stores Metro Cash & Carry Medhold Metair Investments Group Five Harwill Investments Putco Properties Bowler Metcalf Delta Electrical Industries SA Eagle Insurance Marlin Corporation Santam Oceana Fishing Grp Laser Transport Saflife Da Gama Textiles Fraser Alexander PGM Investments CNA Gallo Amalgamated Beverage Ind. Illovo Sugar Tongaat-Hullet Group Anbeeco Investment Suncrush Fintech Bearing Man Guardian National Ins. Teljoy Richemont Securities AG NEI Africa Rex Trueform Clothing-N Atlas Properties Omnia Mutual & Fedral Insurance Sasol Pepgro Chemical Services

Five Year Share Price Growth 10 - 255 100 - 2400 990 - 9225 125 - 2390 7 - 109 16 - 228 450 - 6500 85 - 1100 400 - 5000 58 - 730 30 - 380 15 - 190 22 - 240 180 - 1990 75 - 660 240 - 1700 86 - 635 95 - 650 175 - 1200 550 - 3500 2700 - 17000 55 - 63 90 - 527 33 - 125 130 - 710 160 - 160 75 - 340 570 - 505 110 - 535 115 - 450 180 - 840 2150 - 9500 600 - 2700 1100 - 5000 180 - 700 375 - 1200 850 - 3550 90 - 400 198 - 770 120 - 440 350 - 1240 110 - 375 45 - 165 2000 - 6000 510 - 1800 750 - 2080 70 - 262 450 - 1480 1200 - 4200 140 - 100 53 - 140 775 - 670 1275 - 3700 9900 - 27000 350 - 950 1750 - 4750 250 - 725 362 - 995 25 - 49 93 - 260 600 - 1400 9000 - 4800 910 - 2140 118 - 290 124 - 294 90 - 199 1500 - 2920 80 - 180 500 - 1145 115 - 180 60 - 130 850 - 1805 4700 - 9300 10 - 23 975 - 1870 260 - 460 250 - 550 190 - 38 180 - 280 670 - 700 350 - 690 360 - 701 1750 - 3275 280 - 490 1708 - 3100 67 - 68 860 - 1050 280 - 510 80 - 130 6200 - 9650 230 - 425 3990 - 7390 150 - 279 250 - 400 360 - 350 550 - 800 830 - 1400 1775 - 2695 600 - 1000 438 - 700

Average annual compound return (%) 94.42 93.70 14 82.15 74.31 72.83 71.43 70.16 69.67 69.27 67.77 66.89 63.71 63.12 57.83 51.59 51.05 49.74 49.34 47.03 46.98 46.06 45.43 43.54 41.84 41.24 40.43 40.32 39.81 38.63 38.10 37.75 37.60 37.03 35.83 35.07 35.02 34.77 34.16 33.75 33.64 33.48 33.02 32.34 31.93 31.89 31.89 30.92 30.24 29.89 27.64 27.51 27.36 27.04 26.91 26.25 25.01 24.63 23.68 23.55 23.27 22.87 22.58 21.19 20.85 20.83 20.15 20.05 19.88 19.57 19.50 19.05 18.75 18.13 18.12 17.87 17.66 17.37 16.78 16.23 16.23 16.13 16.00 15.82 15.56 15.50 15.50 15.10 14.62 14.29 14.15 14.12 13.80 13.60 13.44 13.07 13.02 12.97 12.95 12.60

Source: I-Net