424B3 1 0001.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT FILED PURSUANT TO RULE NO. 424(b)(3) REGISTRATION NO. 333-31226 PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT (To Prospectus dated February 16, 2001) [LOGO OF BROADBAND HOLDRS] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Broadband HOLDRS SM Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated February 16, 2001, which updated the original prospectus dated April 5, 2000 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 10 of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Primary Share Trading Name of Company Ticker Amounts Market ------------------------------------ ------ ------- ------- 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. CMTN 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 Sycamore Networks, Inc. SCMR 3 NASDAQ Tellabs, Inc. TLAB 4 NASDAQ Terayon Communications Systems, Inc. TERN 2 NASDAQ
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 March 30, 2001.