Can any body tell me regarding the Merrill Lynch Nanotech Index(AMEX-NNZ) listed at NYSE and the scrip include

Question

An Index including 25 scrips and launched by Merrill Lynch in 2004. Kindly give the Market Cap and P/E of the Companies included.

Answer 1

When established, the 25 companies in the index were

Company . Ticker . Speciality . Market Cap($M)
Amcol International ACO Materials 486
Applied Films AFCO Materials 470
Altair Nanotechnologies ALTI Materials 95
Biosante Pharmaceuticals BPA Nano Biotech 66
Caliper Life Sciences CALP Instrumentation 187
Cabot Corp* CBT Materials 2,071
Emcore EMKR Semiconductors 160
FEI FEIC Instrumentation 704
Flamel Technologies FLML Materials 477
Headwaters HDWR Energy 752
JMAR Tech JMAR Semiconductors 63
MTS Systems MTSC Instrumentation 554
Nanometrics NANO Instrumentation 187
Nanophase Technologies NANX Materials 143
Nanogen NGEN Nano Biotech 189
NVE Corp NVEC Intellectual Property 208
Universal Display PANL Imaging 287
Pharmacopeia ACCL Nano Biotech 472
SkyePharma SKYE Nano Biotech 739
Symyx Technologies SMMX Materials 881
Three-Five Systems TFS Imaging 125
Harris & Harris TINY Venture Capital 187
Ultratech UTEK Semiconductors 506
Veeco Instruments VECO Instrumentation 757
Westaim WEDX Venture Capital 175

http://www.ml.com/media/42322.pdf

The current index components are

Index Components as of: 12/12/07

Company Name . Symbol . % Weighting

N.A. BPAX 9.34%
Amcol Intl ACO 8.40%
Lumera Corp LMRA 7.96%
Accelrys Inc ACCL 7.48%
Mts Systems MTSC 6.92%
Altair Nanotechnologies ALTI 6.49%
Fei Co FEIC 6.41%
Novavax Inc NVAX 5.17%
Cabot Corp CBT 4.98%
Kopin Corp KOPN 4.75%
Arrowhead Research ARWR 4.25%
Ultratech Inc UTEK 4.02%
Nve Corp NVEC 4.00%
Veeco Instruments VECO 3.72%
Harris & Harris Group Inc TINY 3.55%
Nanophase Technologies NANX 2.81%
Headwaters Inc. HW 2.76%
Flamel Technologies Ads FLML 2.53%
Symyx Technologies SMMX 1.74%
pSivida Ltd. (ADS) PSDV 1.61%
Immunicon Corp IMMC 1.11%

http://www.amex.com/?href=/othProd/prodInf/OpPiIndComp.jsp?Product_Symbol=NNZ

It is on the American Stock Exchange, not the NYSE.

For the current market cap and P/E ratios see

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BPAX,ACO,LMRA,ACCL,MTSC,ALTI,FEIC,NVAX,CBT,KOPN,ARWR,UTEK,NVEC,VECO,TINY,NANX,HW,FLML,SMMX,PSDV,IMMC&d=s