424B3 1 f424b3_080504-intholders.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT Filed Pursuant to Rule No. 424(b)(3) (To Prospectus dated July 3, 2003) REGISTRATION NO. 333-78575 [LOGO] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Internet HOLDRS (SM) Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated July 3, 2003 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the Internet HOLDRS (SM) Trust. The share amounts specified in the table in the "Highlights of Internet HOLDRS" section of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Share Primary Name of Company Ticker Amounts Trading Market --------------- ------ ------- -------------- Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 18 NASDAQ Ameritrade Holding Corporation AMTD 9 NASDAQ CMGI Inc. CMGI 10 NASDAQ CNET Networks, Inc. CNET 4 NASDAQ DoubleClick Inc. DCLK 4 NASDAQ EarthLink, Inc. ELNK 6.23 NASDAQ eBay Inc. EBAY 24 NASDAQ E*TRADE Financial Corporation ET 12 NYSE McAfee, Inc.(1) MFE 7 NYSE Priceline.com Incorporated PCLN 1.167 NASDAQ RealNetworks, Inc. RNWK 8 NASDAQ Time Warner Inc. TWX 42 NYSE Yahoo! Inc.(2) YHOO 52 NASDAQ
------------- (1) Effective June 30, 2004, Network Associates, Inc. (NYSE: NET) announced that it had changed its name to McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE). (2) Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced a 2-for-1 stock split on its common stock payable on May 11, 2004 to shareholders of record as of April 26, 2004. Effective May 17, 2004 the share amount of Yahoo! Inc. represented by a round lot of 100 Internet HOLDRS was 52. 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 June 30, 2004.