THE TIMES 100 / THE BEST PERFORMING COMPANIES IN AMERICA : A VIEW FROM THE STREET : Charging Ahead

Companies ranked by percent gain in stock price.

% Change 4/8/94 3/31/93 Stock Stock Stock Rank Company Price Price Price 1 Williams-Sonoma Inc. 325 37.50 8.83 2 Integrated Device Tech. 282 29.62 7.75 3 Westwood One 236 8.62 2.56 4 McClatchy Newspapers Inc. 233 22.50 6.75 5 Western Digital Corp. 224 18.25 5.63 6 Protein Design Labs 208 23.50 7.63 7 Xircom Inc. 202 23.75 7.88 8 Rexhall Industries Inc. 186 7.87 2.75 9 Fibreboard Corp. 185 33.12 11.63 10 KLA Instruments Corp. 181 40.00 14.25 11 FileNet Corp. 178 26.37 9.50 12 Atmel Corp. 159 24.00 9.25 13 California Micro Devices 154 18.12 7.13 14 Herbalife International Inc. 151 24.50 9.75 15 Watson General Corp. 143 5.00 2.06 16 Chart House Enterprises 140 14.12 5.88 17 Aura Systems Inc. 138 8.62 3.63 18 Scientific Technologies Inc. 132 9.00 3.88 19 Sierra On-Line 128 24.50 10.75 20 Callaway Golf 128 35.87 15.75 21 Applied Materials 123 47.87 21.50 22 Centigram Communications 121 38.75 17.50 23 Advanced Logic Research 113 6.12 2.88 24 VLSI Technology 112 14.87 7.00 25 SafetyTek Corp. 110 11.00 5.25

Source: STAR Services.