We Have HOLDRs Holdings Here

Forget taxes, Greenspan and the human genome.

If my email is any indication, investors are truly obsessed with Merrill Lynch's HOLDRs.

HOLDRs are a great way to invest in hot areas of the market. They're straightforward, cheap and easy to buy and trade. You can pick up shares from any broker.

Merrill launched the first of these exchange-traded portfolios, Internet HOLDRs (HHH), last September.

Now there are six others, covering Biotech (BBH), Pharmaceuticals (PPH), Telecom (TTH), B2B, or business-to-business, (BHH), Internet Architecture (IAH) and Internet Infrastructure (IIH).

All of these baskets start off with 20 stocks, trade on the American Stock Exchange and carry the same investment restrictions. You can buy HOLDRs only in round lots, or increments of 100 shares. So it will cost you anywhere from around $7,900 (pharmaceutical) to around $23,000 (biotech) to get into HOLDRs.

At launch, the holdings of each portfolio are weighted according to market capitalization, with a 20% ceiling on any one stock. The weightings change constantly as each stock's price fluctuates.

Alas, you'll have one difficult time locating the weightings -- or the holdings -- of HOLDRs on the Internet.

Maddeningly, you won't find that information on Merrill's Web site. And searching for the information in the Edgar database is frustrating, and you won't find recent weightings there. Bank of New York, the trustee for the HOLDRs products, has portfolio holdings, but not current weightings, on its Web site.

Well, you can now find the holdings, and the weightings as of Wednesday, right here on TheStreet.com.

Say thank you.

Internet HOLDRs (HHH) Company Weighting* Yahoo! (YHOO) 26.77% America Online (AOL) 15.39 CMGI (CMGI) 8.28 Exodus Communications (EXDS) 7.79 Amazon.com (AMZN) 7.63 eBay (EBAY) 5.66 Inktomi (INKT) 5.44 Excite@Home (ATHM) 3.7 RealNetworks (RNWK) 3.67 priceline.com (PCLN) 2.87 DoubleClick (DCLK) 2.06 E*Trade (EGRP) 2.06 PSINet (PSIX) 1.94 CNET (CNET) 1.71 Lycos (LCOS) 1.47 Network Associates (NETA) 1.34 Ameritrade (AMTD) 1.24 Go2Net (GNET) 0.56 EarthLink (ELNK) 0.48 *As of March 1. Source: Merrill Lynch.	Biotech HOLDRs (BBH) Company Weighting Genentech (DNA) 20.51% Amgen (AMGN) 13.28 Immunex (IMNX) 13.24 PE Biosystems (PEB) 8.5 Biogen (BGEN) 6.32 MedImmune (MEDI) 4.55 Chiron (CHIR) 4.43 Celera (CRA) 4.16 Human Genome Sciences (HGSI) 3.98 Millennium Pharmaceuticals (MLNM) 3.33 Sepracor (SEPR) 3.07 Affymetrix (AFFX) 2.61 IDEC Pharmaceuticals (IDPH) 2.58 Genzyme (GENZ) 1.87 Alkermes (ALKS) 1.71 QLT PhotoTherapeutics (QLTI) 1.57 Gilead Sciences (GILD) 1.41 ICOS (ICOS) 1.02 BioChem Pharma (BCHE) 1.01 Enzon (ENZN) 0.85 *As of March 1. Source: Merrill Lynch.
B2B HOLDRs (BHH) Company Weighting Ariba (ARBA) 19.82% Internet Capital Group (ICGE) 17.17 Commerce One (CMRC) 13.81 VerticalNet (VERT) 7.07 FreeMarkets (FMKT) 5.86 Ventro (VNTR) 4.48 CareInsite (CARI) 4.35 Scient (SCNT) 3.97 CheckFree (CKFR) 3.78 Agile Software (AGIL) 2.93 PurchasePro.com (PPRO) 2.71 Sterling Commerce (SE) 2.67 SciQuest.com (SQST) 2.41 Silknet Software (SILK) 2.35 Retek (RETK) 1.94 Proxicom (PXCM) 1.8 Harbinger (HRBC) 1.15 QRS (QRSI) 1.08 Pegasus Systems (PEGS) 0.42 ImageX.com (IMGX) 0.28 *As of March 1. Source: Merrill Lynch.	Internet Architecture HOLDRs (IAH) Company Weighting Cisco (CSCO) 18.32% IBM (IBM) 13.92 Sun Microsystems (SUNW) 12.57 EMC (EMC) 10.11 Hewlett-Packard (HWP) 10.06 Dell Computer (DELL) 8.73 Compaq (CPQ) 3.61 Sycamore Networks (SCMR) 3.59 3Com (COMS) 3.45 Juniper Networks (JNPR) 2.87 Network Appliance (NTAP) 2.01 Ciena (CIEN) 1.88 Foundry Networks (FDRY) 1.59 Gateway (GTW) 1.49 Apple Computer (AAPL) 1.41 Extreme Networks (EXTR) 1.14 Seagate Technology (SEG) 1.09 Cobalt Networks (COBT) 1.0 Unisys (UIS) 0.65 Adaptec (ADPT) 0.42 *As of March 1. Source: Merrill Lynch.
Internet Infrastructure HOLDRs (IIH) Company Weighting VeriSign (VRSN) 10.31% InfoSpace.com (INSP) 9.82 Exodus Communications (EXDS) 9.41 Akamai Technologies (AKAM) 8.68 BroadVision (BVSN) 7.99 BEA Systems (BEAS) 6.57 Inktomi (INKT) 5.88 InterNAP Network Services (INAP) 5.1 Vignette (VIGN) 4.79 Portal Software (PRSF) 4.64 RealNetworks (RNWK) 4.32 Vitria Technology (VITR) 3.76 Network Solutions (NSOL) 3.39 Kana Communications (KANA) 3.02 Digital Island (ISLD) 2.54 E.piphany (EPNY) 2.2 NaviSite (NAVI) 2.09 Software.com (SWCM) 2.02 Alteon WebSystems (ATON) 1.98 USinternetworking (USIX) 1.45 *As of March 1. Source: Merrill Lynch.	Pharmaceutical HOLDRs (PPH) Company Weighting Merck (MRK) 16.7% Pfizer (PFE) 14.55 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) 11.98 Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) 11.94 Warner-Lambert (WLA) 8.57 Eli Lilly (LLY) 7.46 American Home Products (AHP) 6.45 Abbott Laboratories (ABT) 5.99 Schering-Plough (SGP) 5.99 Pharmacia & Upjohn (PNU) 2.91 Biovail (BVF) 1.74 Andrx (ADRX) 1.25 Forest Laboratories (FRX) 0.85 Jones Pharma (JMED) 0.84 Allergan (AGN) 0.63 King Pharmaceuticals (KING) 0.61 IVAX (IVX) 0.51 Watson Pharmaceuticals (WPI) 0.49 Mylan Laboratories (MYL) 0.29 ICN Pharmaceuticals (ICN) 0.27 *As of March 1. Source: Merrill Lynch.
Telecom HOLDRs (TTH) Company Weighting AT&T (T) 13.82% SBC Communications (SBC) 12.87 MCI WorldCom (WCOM) 11.63 Bell Atlantic (BEL) 7.59 BellSouth (BLS) 7.35 BCE (BCE) 6.59 GTE (GTE) 6.05 Nextel (NXTL) 4.6 Sprint (FON) 4.26 Level 3 Communications (LVLT) 4.06 Qwest Communications (Q) 3.97 US West (USW) 3.68 Global Crossing (GBLX) 3.53 ALLTEL(AT) 1.38 NTL (NTLI) 1.36 Sprint PCS (PCS) 1.26 Telephone & Data Systems (TDS) 1.23 McLeodUSA (MCLD) 1.02 Broadwing (BRW) 0.83 CenturyTel (CTL) 0.39 *As of March 1. Source: Merrill Lynch.

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