Update - What the Tech ... Our portfolio of technology stocks narrowly beat the market's gains. We're holding out for more

摘要

SIX MONTHS AGO we screwed up our courage and proclaimed that technology stocks were back after their seven-year, postbubble slump. Bellwethers like Cisco and Microsoft were flying high, the Nasdaq had finished 2006 10 percent higher, and Microsoft was about to launch Vista, instigating a new round of technology spending. So for March's "Tech Stocks: Finding a Pulse," we picked five stocks seemingly robust enough to better the health of any portfolio. Well... perhaps we were a bit early. The portfolio has returned 9 percent, slightly outperforming the Standard & Poor's 500's 8 percent. Respectable, but hardly the busting-down-the-doors performance of 10 years ago. Even so, we're sticking with our prediction that these five stocks will provide market-beating returns over the longer haul.