Stock Group Winners and Losers

Best- and worst-performing industries and companies in each group, with closing stock price, for the week ended Aug. 23. Only stocks trading for $1 or higher are included.

BEST PERFORMERS

1) Apparel: +5%

Nutmeg Inds (12): +15.7%

2) Leather shoes: +4.5%

McRae Inds (6 1/8): +25.6%

3) Textile manufacturing: +4.4%

Rocky Mtn Under (2 1/4): +63.6%

4) Heavy construction: +4.2%

Offshore Pipelines (9): +18%

5) Paper, packaging: +3.9%

Stuart Hall (9 1/2): +26.7%

6) Railroads: +3.7%

Burlington Nor (33 3/8): +10.8%

7) Home furnishings: +3.5%

Craftmatic/Contour (1 7/8): +25%

8) Food: Confections: +3.3%

Clearly Canadian (21): +5%

9) Electrical equipment: +3.2%

Hathaway (2 3/4): +15.8%

10) Aerospace: +3.2%

Hexcel (12 1/2): +9.9%

WORST PERFORMERS

1) Amusements: -3.6%

Medalist Inds (6 3/4): -10%

2) Rare metals: -2.9%

USMX (1 3/4): -12.5%

3) Light equipment: -1.4%

Atrix Intl (1 3/16): -26.9%

4) Savings and loan: -0.6%

Newnan Savings (3 1/2): -22.2%

5) Broadcasting: -0.5%

Jones Spacelink A (1 1/16): -22.7%

6) Investments: +0.1%

Salomon (23 3/4): -14.8%

7) Credit: +0.3%

Cencor (6): -14.3%

8) Insurance: +0.5%

Independence Hldgs (1 1/8): -18.2%

9) Tobacco: +0.6%

BAT Inds (11 5/16): -8.1%

10) Food stores: +0.6%

Arden Group (39): -9.3%

Source: Media General Financial Services