424B3 1 0001.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT FILED PURSUANT TO RULE NO. 424(b)(3) REGISTRATION NO. 333-52022 PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT (To Prospectus dated February 6, 2001) [LOGO OF OIL SERVICE HOLDRS] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Oil Service HOLDRS SM Trust This prospectus supplement amends and supplements information contained in the prospectus dated February 6, 2001 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the Oil Service HOLDRS SM Trust. The share amounts specified in the table on page 10 of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Primary U.S. Share Trading Name of Company Ticker Amounts Market ---------------------------------- ------ ------- ------------ Baker Hughes Incorporated BHI 21 NYSE BJ Services Company(/1/) BJS 7 NYSE Cooper Cameron Corporation CAM 4 NYSE Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. DO 11 NYSE ENSCO International Incorporated ESV 11 NYSE Global Marine Inc. GLM 15 NYSE Grant Prideco, Inc. GRP 9 NYSE Halliburton Company HAL 22 NYSE Hanover Compressor Company HC 5 NYSE Nabors Industries, Inc. NBR 12 AMEX National-Oilwell, Inc. NOI 7 NYSE Noble Drilling Corporation NE 11 NYSE Rowan Companies, Inc. RDC 8 NYSE Santa Fe International Corporation SDC 10 NYSE Schlumberger N.V. SLB 11 NYSE Smith International, Inc. SII 4 NYSE Tidewater Inc. TDW 5 NYSE Transocean Sedco Forex Inc. RIG 18 NYSE Weatherford International, Inc. WFT 9 NYSE
------- (1) BJ Services Company announced a two-for-one stock split on its common stock payable to shareholders of record as of May 17, 2001. BJ Services will begin trading on a split-adjusted basis on June 1, 2001. As of June 1, 2001 the share amount of BJ Services, represented by a round lot of 100 Oil Service HOLDRS, will be 14. 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.