Nasdaq-100 Adds and Removes Stocks

The Nasdaq Stock Market said late Friday that, as a part of its annual re-ranking of its component stocks, the following 5 stocks are to be removed from the Nasdaq-100 Index effective Monday, Dec 24th. The Nasdaq-100 Index is composed of the 100 largest non-financial stocks on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

The removed stocks are (Friday's closing value in parenthesis):
LM Ericsson Telephone Company (ERIC, $24.31, -0.69, -2.8%) ,
XM Satellite Radio Holdings (XMSR, $13.55, -0.44, -3.1%),
Ross Stores Inc. (ROST, $25.01, -0.47, -1.8%) ,
Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN, $19.86, -0.35, -1.7%),
Sepracor Inc. (SEPR, $24.95, -0.20, -0.8%).

The following stocks will replace the above 5:
Hologic, Inc. (HOLX, $65.20, +0.66, +1.0%, No Dividend) is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of diagnostic and medical imaging systems primarily serving the healthcare needs of women.
Focus Media Holding Ltd (FMCN, $57.80, +1.30, +2.3%, No Dividend) operates an out-of-home advertising network in China using audiovisual television displays instead of traditional billboards to broadcast advertising.
Hansen Natural Corp. (HANS, $47.70, +0.31, +0.7%, No Dividend) develops, markets, sells and distributes 'alternative' beverage category natural sodas, fruit juices, energy drinks, sparkling lemonades and orangeades, non-carbonated ready-to-drink iced teas, lemonades, etc under the Hansen's and other brand names.
Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD, $54.64, -0.96, -1.7%; Dividend yield 1.10%) is a steel manufacturing company that owns and operates three steel producing mini-mills with an estimated combined annual production capacity of 4.2 million tons.
Stericycle, Inc. (SRCL, $59.26, +0.04, +0.1%, No Dividend) has a fully integrated, national medical waste management network including 45 treatment/collection centers and 105 additional transfer and collection sites.

As usual, you may find activities of selling in 'removed' stocks and 'buying' in 'added' ones on Monday.