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In addition, Nucor has a purchase agreement with its former joint venture partner, CVRD, for 380k ton/year of pig iron from Brazil.
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We continue to forecast 11% EBITA growth in 1999.
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While EMR is likely to undertake a potentially major acquisition (as much as $5 billion) over the next couple of years, it will only move opportunistically and if accretive, in our view.
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Recent Investor Meeting Highlights Continued Growth.
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MER aims to include not just on-line trading for equities, fixed income and mutual fund products, but also electronic banking, e-commerce, links to its credit card and other embellishments..
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The sequential quarter uptick in variable cost compensation is primarily related to capital market activities, and secondarily we believe, to under-accrued benefits in the prior quarter owing to below norm results.
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That said, we do not believe a merger would bring immediate material benefits.
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Domestic sales were up by $1 million to $28 million, while international sales were up $2 million to $18 million.
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RG&E hopes to obtain these approvals in time to close on the purchase of the plant by the summer of 2000.
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1997 earnings were $2.36 per share, also in line with our forecast, compared with $2.21 per share a year ago.
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The company also had a one time charge of $17M in the quarter for the retirement of the $880M liquid yield option notes (LYONs), which was listed as restricted cash on the balance sheet in prior quarters.
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We are flowing through the third quarter increase of $.03 to full-year 2004 EPS, as such, our new full year 2004 EPS estimate is $1.98, implying 0.2% growth to full year 2003 earnings base of $1.96 per share.
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The depressed industrial economy has resulted in substantial declines in industrial production, capacity utilization, capital spending, and commercial construction.
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As of 2/12, eBay has logged 45.6% of the listings it needs to reach our updated 1Q listing estimate of 561.3M, compared to 43.8% of the listings it needed to reach its 431.8M listings in 1Q'05.
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Viacom's high free cash flow generation, at 46% of EBITDA, is superior to its peers, which average 25% at Disney, Time Warner, and News Corp. Those stocks are valued at a 30-50% premium to estimated growth rates.
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COP's reported adjusted earnings of $2.01bn or $2.87/share were in-line with.
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Investment management revenue was a record $605 million, up 2% from 2Q06, given record private investment management revenue ($256 million, up 4%) and stronger asset management revenue ($349 million, up 1%).
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We now model $225 million in sales for the 2004/2005 flu season..
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KMB's response to the difficult conditions is to reduce costs and accelerate product improvements, leading to higher margins and volumes.
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During the March launch, Inventor will be at version 10, Revit on version 8, and AutoCAD in its 23rd year since being first introduced in 1982.
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Activity levels are accelerating on the back of recent acquisitions at the Deep Basin project area (175 wells next year versus 145 this year) and Viking-Kinsella (where production has doubled this year).
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2. Discount retail formats - such as Wal-Mart Supercenter - could accelerate entrance into core markets.
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Additionally, some industry pundits believe that the company's brand has played a large part in Google's recent market share gains.
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The company is offering transistor and copper interconnect modules which combine several systems (e.g., PVD, ECD and CMP tools for the production of copper wires) with guaranteed performance.
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A decision to table this investment would be a huge positive in our view, since the new factory undoubtedly leads to the production of commodity analog and logic products downstream, something all companies with overcapacity chase to try to spread costs over as many wafers as possible.
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Purchase Price Lucent will issue approximately 78 million shares of its common stock, valued at approximately $4.5 billion based upon the $58.19 closing price of Lucent' common stock on Monday May 30.
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New fabs spend a higher portion of their equipment budget on process control equipment in the first phase of buying as process control equipment is heavily used to ramp production yields.
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Assuming there's no pick up in comps, Bed Bath expects flat or low single digit growth in the second quarter, flat or low single digit decline in the third quarter owing to a higher tax rate and down lowmid single digits in 4Q due to the extra week comparison.
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Its component costs have been declining by about 0.5 point per week over the last several quarters.
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Although management did not go into the details of this review, The Dallas Morning News recently published an article (see February 29 article titled "Dealing in Diplomas") relating the review to a qui tam action disclosed in APOL's annual 10k filing that alleges, among other things, falsification of documents associated with federal student aid programs and improper compensation of recruiters.
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Sources indicate that Kodak has recently lowered paper pricing at major mass merchants including the Kmart, Target and Eckerd.
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(In the UK, KMB's training and youth pant share was 98%).
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On the same day, the Kellogg board elected Jim Jenness, 58, as the new CEO.
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Although it is difficult to know for sure, our best guess is that the issues with the dates and timing of option grants will be technical or administrative in nature.
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Company reported 3Q earnings per share of $0.80 vs. $0.77, an increase of 3.9%, missing Hilliard Lyons' $0.88 estimate and the consensus $0.84.
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CAPITAL MARKETS REVENUES -- which include revenues from equity and fixed-income sales and trading activities -- reached $577 million in F4Q01, representing 48.0% of the firm's net revenues.
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PPG reported 1Q'03 EPS 1ct lower than our recently lowered est. of $0.52/shr The biggest variation from our estimate was lower income in glass, particially.
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By 2003, SO targets 30% of net income from unregulated businesses.
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FAS = Financial Accounting Standards EPS = Earnings Per Share.
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We think EDS would be exiting this contract if the value of future cash flows were expected to be zero or worse.
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On these results, we are raising our FY01 EPS estimate to $0.23 from $0.20; however, we are maintaining our FY02 EPS estmate of $0.50.
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Given the significantly higher growth rate of Caterpillar's distributed power business (and the multiples of revenues of some of the other publicly traded distributed power companies), we believe Caterpillar's distributed power business would command a significantly higher multiple than that of Caterpillar--if traded separately.
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Comdata's solutions provide the trucking company with the financial control they desire, while providing the driver the tools to perform his job.
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SunGard's systems assist in the development of complex trading analysis and strategies depending on the type of derivative securities being utilized and also manage the accounting and back-office functions associated with these transactions.
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Operating margins also were in synch with forecasts at 9.0%, versus our 9.3%.
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We are lowering our 2005 EPS estimate to a loss of $10.13 from a loss of $4.15 as a result of the arbitration charge announce November 23, 2005.
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26% net debt/cap and est. 90%+ free cash flow conversion gives UTX $2B cash redeployment potential.
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We believe AMD will obtain 5% market share because of the Athlon' strengths.
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Our revised 2007 and 2008 EPS estimates are $24.46 and $20.62, respectively..
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We estimate that SUN's planned maintenance activity in 4Q will reduce its Northeast system utilization rate from 99% this quarter to 85% in 4Q.
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Wal-Mart Cuts Nov. Sales Expectation to 0.7% - Not Necessarily an Indicator for all of Retail After Wal-Mart's (WMT) weekly sale update, we are maintaining our Neutral rating on WMT shares and our 2004 and 2005 EPS estimates of $2.39 and $2.72.
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In addition, the increasing need for scale, sophisticated trade execution technology, and capital usage is creating barriers to entry and placing more and more pressure on subscale players offering market share gains for the large liquidity providers.
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Range: 84 - 36 Price: 73 their own Country Stores.
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(The sale of the development project Freestone in Texas garnered a $15 million profit.) The most significant alliance to date, we believe; in April 2000, Entergy and Koch Industries announced plans to contribute key businesses to create a top tier energy company.
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$459MM securitization was closed as expected on April 4, 2007.
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These include better matching in effort to improve coverage of keywords as seen by the beta release of Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) and improving ad relevance by increasing clickthrough rates.
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Share repurchases remain aggressive and capacity for repurchases remains high.
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IQ00 reported EPS includes the impact of a $15.2 million or $0.26 gain related to a patent litigation settlement has been restated to exclude charges, write-offs, gains or losses on divestitures..
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We are using a multiple of 2 times forward earnings of $45 million, resulting in a valuation of under $1 per share and not material to our valuation..
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We note pipeline stories are notorious for having disappointing earnings growth in their early years.
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In a rising rate scenario, we believe that consumers' effective demand for incremental credit card debt will become constrained (absent a material boost in personal income growth), placing additional pressure on card issuer pricing at a time when their cost of funds will be on the rise.
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(In the real world, patients receive multiple stents, some overlapping.) For its part, the polymer carrier helps facilitate the uniform distribution and release of drug over the stent.
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We think a 2005 multiple is appropriate despite the fact that we are nearly at midyear, because toy companies generate the large majority of earnings in the second half of the year..
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The company increased its asbestos liability estimate to $1,278 million from $386 million in that year, and recorded an $878 million recoverable from the excess insurance policies.
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We lowered our rating on the Chubb shares to Add from Buy following disappointing third quarter results, where deterioration in underlying trends in Chubb's Specialty and Personal lines offset the improvement in its Commercial lines.
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At the end of the third quarter, total gross debt stood at $611 million, with debt-to-book capital standing at approximately 45%.
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Systems enhancements focused on improved store inventory allocation, cross-docking efficiency.
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Multipacks of single use cameras appear to be garnering a major push at Wal-Mart.
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As an example, most bonuses were tied only to the volume of new business signings and revenue target, and not to corporate profitability.
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Importantly, investment is stabilizing, providing better profitability on growth.
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Because of its production mix, OXY's earnings are the most leveraged to oil prices and least to gas prices among E&P independents.
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CINF investment income increased 6.9% over 4Q04, reflecting CINF's unique equity investment approach.
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Also, we are maintaining our full-year operating earnings estimate of $3.25 per share based on our outlook of 375 commercial aircraft deliveries for the year.
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Accordingly, should PLL miss our F2004 and F2005 earnings projections, multiple expansion could stall, and the share price would not reach our $30 price target.
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The previously scattered S&M team has now been consolidated into one central marketing group.
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At one point CEO McMillan suggested that the consolidation of the meat businesses from 11 units in to one was a start of the process.
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We estimate that HFCS will contribute about 5% to F2003 sales and roughly 6-7% of profits.
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The plan is built on the assumption that US units will decline from 310-345 in '02 to 200-250 in '03.
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Overall, we are impressed with the new entity, and believe it represents a stronger company than MYL standalone.
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However the impact of Q/Q top line growth is expected to be migitated in the April quarter by increased operating expenses related to it being a 14 week quarter (versus the usual 13 week).
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While, at the margin, we consider the presentation to be a positive relative to the new product flow and the coherence of the product strategy, we also think the challenges in its established product portfolio offset the new product opportunity over the next year..
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P/E's calculated on a trailing four quarter basis.
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The parties are awaiting the Australian court's decision.
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On the conference call, Caterpillar indicated that virtually all its models in North America are on "managed distribution" (i.e. allocation), up from just 8 models three months ago.
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Stage 1 Pretreatment Spray or immersion stages can both be utilized..
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While we view the passage of Governor Rendell's legislation as the most likely outcome, we view a lower likelihood, worst case scenario for PPL, EXC and FE to be a monetary settlement similar to what took place in Illinois, where the Pennsylvania based power companies effectively fund the $850 million Energy Independence Fund.
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An important element of high net margins is the interest. .
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We are raising our 2005 and 2006 EPS estimates $0.05 each to $5.60 and $6.05, respectively, and are initiating a 2007 projection of $6.55.
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Included in this revision, we have adjusted our 3Q 2000 EPS estimate to $0.19 from $0.22, reflecting revenue growth of 2% (vs. IKN's outlook for 2-4% growth).
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The PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii debuted in Fall 2006, with the Nintendo Wii stealing the show so far.
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*** Reducing 4Q01 and 2002-2006 Xigris revenue forecasts.
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Furthermore, we remain confident MCI WorldCom will meet or exceed our 1999 above-consensus EPS estimate of $2.04.
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The company has exclusive rights to explore 5 million acres in the Sahara Desert.
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We have been, and remain, convinced that the strength and duration of the growth phase is the most important driver of earnings and investment performance for companies in the sector.
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Nabors, the second-largest well servicing contractor, should benefit.
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As shown below, the company has been steadily growing their managed loans and between 1999 through 2Q05 have had average annual growth of 75%.
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The target price of $35 assumes a ten-year revenue growth rate of approximately 18%.
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The company pays an annualized dividend of $2.32 per share and yields 2.2%.
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Sales growth was detrimentally impacted by excess inventory among retail customers in the United States as large chains consolidate and reduce inventory levels.
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ARPU grew 0.6% YoY to $49.71, 1.9% higher than our estimate due to strong growth in data revenues.
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