424B3 1 f424b3_103102-broadband.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT FILED PURSUANT TO RULE NO. 424(b)(3) PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT REGISTRATION NO. 333-31226 (To Prospectus dated March 12, 2002) [HOLDRS BROADBAND LOGO] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Broadband HOLDRS (SM) Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated March 12, 2002 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the Broadband HOLDRS (SM) Trust. The share amounts specified in the table on page 13 of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Primary Share Trading Name of Company Ticker Amounts Market --------------- ------ ------- ------ Agere Systems, Inc. Class A AGR.A .312604 NYSE Agere Systems, Inc. Class B AGR.B 7.672327 NYSE Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC 2 NASDAQ Broadcom Corporation BRCM 2 NASDAQ Ciena Corporation CIEN 2 NASDAQ Comverse Technology, Inc. CMVT 2 NASDAQ Conexant Systems, Inc. CNXT 2 NASDAQ Copper Mountain Networks, Inc.(1) CMTN 0.1 NASDAQ Corning, Inc. GLW 9 NYSE JDS Uniphase Corporation JDSU 11.8 NASDAQ Lucent Technologies, Inc. LU 29 NYSE Motorola, Inc. MOT 18 NYSE Next Level Communications, Inc. NXTV 1 NASDAQ Nortel Networks Corporation NT 28 NYSE PMC-Sierra, Inc. PMCS 1 NASDAQ Qualcomm Incorporated QCOM 8 NASDAQ RF Micro Devices, Inc. RFMD 2 NASDAQ Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. SFA 2 NYSE Skyworks Solutions, Inc. SWKS 0.702 NASDAQ Sycamore Networks, Inc. SCMR 3 NASDAQ Tellabs, Inc. TLAB 4 NASDAQ Terayon Communications Systems, Inc. TERN 2 NASDAQ --------------------
(1) Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. announced a one-for-ten reverse stock split on its common stock payable to shareholders of record as of July 18, 2002. As of July 22, 2002 the share amount of Copper Mountain Network represented by a round lot of 100 Broadband HOLDRS is 0.1. The share amounts listed in the table above reflect all previous stock splits, dividends and business combination transactions. The date of this prospectus supplement is September 30, 2002.