Within the first year, thoughts of big stock gains gave way to more mundane worries about where he was fitting into the company.

Excluding the stock gain, Yahoo earned $192 million, an increase of 66 percent.

And many investment experts predict that stock gains in coming years will be modest.

Yet expectations may now be even higher, given four years of 20-percent-plus stock gains.

They strike a balance between the security of the yield and the potential for future stock gains.

Triad, at No. 3, has led the group in stock gains.

Lincoln Center has also offset the dividend loss by using some stock gains.

That return is a far cry from the double-digit stock gains of the 1990's.

As a group, those 53 companies had stock gains averaging only 1.5 percent in the three years before the chief executive was dismissed.

Kodak's stock gain was responsible for almost half of the total advance in the Dow.