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Historically LSI's price-tobook multiple has traded in a range of 0.6-5.0x.
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We believe that it is highly likely that GENZ has the only Fabry drug on the US market in 2003.
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Favorable prior year development rose in the first quarter, which could be a favorable indicator, although the company is significantly larger than it was a year ago, and we expect favorable development to grow along with the increased premium revenue.
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The more important data from this release are the trends and between better sales, consistent gross margin and very good expense leverage, those looked promising Domestic comparable store sales were a very strong 15.1%, beating our expectations of 10%ish.
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It should allow Aetna to gain membership by selectively pricing below some peers that are realizing a higher cost trend.
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Progress in April Reinforces Our View for H2 Recovery; Maintaining Estimates.
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31 October 2007 Americas/United States Equity Research Life Insurance (Life and Health Insurance) / MARKET WEIGHT.
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Gillette and Newell Rubbermaid entered into exclusive negotiations regarding the sale of Gillette's stationery products.
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Unfortunately, thus far restructuring savings have been more than offset by end market weakness and by internal operating issues.
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The company expects to report its FQ4' financial results on July 6. Our estimates include 99 $204.6M in revenue associated with EPS of $0.35.
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We recently spent a day with INTU CEO Steve Bennett.
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Further, the premium natural and organic consumer, as defined by the FTC, isn't the traditional mass market customer trying to feed her family on a budget, but the educated and affluent population that doesn't need the FTC managing for the lower common denominator.
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We believe the lower denominator that resulted from this reduction in equity also increased return ratios.
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Key equipment will be relocated from BHP's Project M demonstration plant in Port Kembla, Australia.
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New Farm Bill has been enacted and sign-up now done.
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Note: Historical numbers have been adjusted to account for the divestiture of ITS Avg.
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In 2001, the group won 65% of its bids and hopes to maintain that success going forward..
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Figure 6: Dow Chemical Quarterly Segment Income Statement, 2006-2007E ($ in millions).
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The 12400, with 16 slots and up to 15 line cards, brings Cisco in line with Juniper''s M160 in port density from a seven-foot rack.
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#2 (5% share) Traditional janitorial products: detergents, cleaners, carpet care, furniture #1 JWP/DL (10-12% share) polishes, disinfectants, floorcare products, hand soaps and odor control.
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Because of GILD's above-average growth, we are applying an above-average P/E multiple of 23x to our 2008 EPS estimate of $1.97 to derive our target price of $45.
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With the company since 1974, he previously was senior credit officer and involved in such areas as project finance, venture capital, special industries, and financial restructuring.
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As seen in the chart below, the server operating system market generally has some headwinds with decelerating server hardware growth as virtualization sees increased penetration in 2008.
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Recently, however, the company has also been able to begin to develop new customers in many higher-growth overseas markets which it previously hadn't supplied.
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It also lacks strength in electrical distribution systems.
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The improved flow of new product should help GM hold its US market share over 27% for the next three years (was 28.4% in 2002).
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Large deals don't seem to be in the cards for the company.
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Plum Creek has $72 million remaining on the current repurchase authorization, and referred to its $22 million in repurchases at $37.85 in the first quarter as "embarrassingly cheap." PRICE OBJECTIVE AND INVESTMENT OVERVIEW We rate Plum Creek Overweight as we expect its increased concentration on land sales will allow the company to grow its earnings per share, cash flow, and dividends.
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2007 results were highlighted by the first quarter $6.2 billion acquisition of Inland Retail Real Estate Trust.
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Extell Development is just that, a development company.
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What next? We believe that the reasons for spinning off Fox in 1998 are no longer valid and hence we see little compelling reason for this to be retained as a separately listed entity.
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Following the meeting, we are raising our FY 2003 EPS estimate to $6.95 from $6.45 primarily to reflect a lower than expected tax rate.
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Risks to our price target include price/margin pressure from retail consolidation and competition, and FX devaluation..
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Lilly then went back to consider other structures.
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This will require the ability to sell investment and insurance products through the retail banking system and to offer banking and credit card services through the brokerage and insurance delivery systems.
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New management has difficulty maintaining business focus In May 2007, Ray Elliot and Sam Leno officially retired from their positions of CEO and CFO, respectively.
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The company lowered its 2005 EPS targets by nearly 10% to the $1.86 range from a range of $2.03 to $2.08, citing general weakness across all of its four regions.
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One Year P&L on Purchasing $10 Million Notional Fannie Sub Protection at 20 Basis Points.
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With an estimated $245M in wireless residuals � say � from VZW � there is risk with this transition to 2006E.
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Broadcom's primary competitor in the wireless market (for GPRS baseband chipsets) is Texas Instruments.
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As a result, Aetna's 2004 commercial risk MLR was 78.3%, 60 basis point rise over the prior year.
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Cozaar/Hyzaar is the second largest anti-hypertensive treatment in its class in the US (#1 in Europe): its share of new prescriptions in the US remains a respectable 23% compared to 25% in 2004.
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answered during the call, it seems Alcoa had to act quickly in putting this deal together.
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As of 3Q03, USB's capital levels have moved above management's targeted tangible equity ratio of 6.25%, and the company is poised to begin redeploying capital via share buybacks.
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Comparatively, C grew its global sales volume by 11%, far below the 16% growth rate posted by AXP.
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Historically, the company introduced only two to three products a year in the United States, with six new launches probably the maximum the organization was set up to handle.
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We also expect COAF to begin leveraging COF's "No Hassle" brand with a national marketing campaign.
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We would look for The Sims and select sports titles to make an appearance on the Wii soon.
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BAC also disclosed that the SEC has stated concerns "with respect to the intent and interpretation of certain contractual provisions" in BAC's earlier agreements with its counterparties (believed to be Freddie Mac).
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We estimate unit case volume in the countries in the new agreement could total approximately 450500 million in 1999.
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PNC changed also all the signage in the old Riggs branches to PNC and opened a new branch in Virginia on Monday.
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Refinery maintenance season has tightened the supply/demand balance for refined products.
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In addition, RTN now trades at a 26% premium to NOC on 09E earnings and a 16% premium to our coverage universe.
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Sector View: The wireless business is challenging due to a slow handset cycle and mix shift to prepaid plans..
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Sales for the year were up 25% to $10.2 billion, and net income of $1.3 billion gained 44%.
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The industry conversion will result in a cost and price increases in the 20% range for basic air conditioners (comprising roughly 70% of industry sales).
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The profits from the joint venture effectively contribute all of ScheringPlough's earnings through 2006 and remain 60% of the company's earnings base in 2010.
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In addition to the 9-month SIRIUS data, 30-day adverse event data from the E-SIRIUS trial were presented.
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The biggest surprise in MDT's fiscal 2Q came from ICD sales, which represent 25% of MDT's revenues.
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We expect the strong sales trends to continue in February.
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As noted, our revised model provides for profits of $1.73 a share.
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Guidance implies 1Q02 growth of 4-7%, caused by a weaker first half.
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The two Bingo hulls are well suited to become drilling and production units..
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Today, order-todelivery times are rising at both manufacturers.
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Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US Bancorp has over 2,200 banking offices and 4,400 ATMs in 24 states (mid- and far west) and provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage banking, and credit card payment and processing services.
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All in all, our analysis yields us a fair value of $25 per share for AT&T, which is our current price target.
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If only a fraction of the 80 million people in the U.S. within HDI's core 35-54 year old demographic purchase a Harley motorcycle, sufficient growth for several years can be maintained.
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South Texas Division EOG commits one third of the South Texas staff to work its current leasehold, with the remaining two-thirds focused on obtaining 3-D seismic and adding leasehold.
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Management is striving for a profit uptick in 1999.
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OIBDA margins were flat at 39%, in line with expectations.
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In yet another bold move to stake a claim on the prized European telecom sector, Qwest and KPN of the Netherlands, on November 19, 1998, announced a joint venture whereby the two companies will build and operate a Pan-European fiber optic network.
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Finally, change of control costs in both Keebler and Nabisco were meaningful and did "eat into" the value left to the public shareholder.
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Initiation of Phase II trial with Ethyol in subcutaneous injection (radiation plus chemotherapy) in both head and neck and non-small cell cancers (xerostomia and mucositis).
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If the operating condition do continue to be difficult, and EOP is forced to continue offering discounts and incentives, the Adjusted FFOPS could come under even greater pressure, resulting in even poorer dividend coverage.
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We update our assumptions from initiation and find that JNS' earnings power is actually declining in the near term.
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Our assumption is a point midway between the 11% stated by WYE, the 12% that comes from the new meta-analysis (described later), and from Trust settlement documents dated Sept.
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This may still occur, but given that the company received very little `denominator' effect from asset growth in October, credit quality numbers are impressive..
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The company has been late to introduce UMTS models in Europe and Asia and failed to have a phone included in Cingular's UMTS launch.
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Sears has already pulled 150 basis points out of expenses lowering the rate, and expects another 200 basis points savings assuming a moderate single digit comps.
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In addition, the company has indicated to us in the past its interest in exiting distribution businesses, and is now indicating its interest in selling merchant generation plants (particularly where spot prices are volatile and where contracts are difficult).
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Cat reaffirmed 2008 revenue and EPS guidance of over $50 billion and $6.00, respectively, though management did not provide full guidance for next year as it typically does on the October call.
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We expect some modest OIBDA margin improvement to 24.8%, up from 24.2% last quarter.
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One of the downsides, though, is that it gives customers more visibility into pricing decisions.
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Moreover, we believe the new forays into storage, security, and enterprise application management will become revenue accelerators, vaulting sales and earnings growth to higher levels than otherwise attainable in the enterprise data management (EDM) and enterprise systems management (ESM) businesses.
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Total revenue growth was 6% from the prior year, depressed largely by slower mortgage activity.
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Highlighting the strength of Nortel' optical networking business, management noted that in spite of a s six-fold increase in capacity over the past year, the company continues to push against supply constraints in optical systems and components capacity.
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Our $115 price target is DCF derived with a discount rate of 9.5% and a terminal growth rate of 5%.
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Overall, management said that commodity costs increased 9% in the quarter, which is well above the 5-7% that most of Kraft's peers are reporting.
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In 2002, MetLife increased its asbestos liability estimate by $402 million.
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The lower R&D is due to the company's ongoing initiative to reduce its investment in digital semiconductor process manufacturing technology.
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Pro-forma EBITDA interest coverage for 1998 will likely be in the 3.5 times range, EBIT interest coverage in the 2.4 times area, cash flow to debt in the mid-teens range, total debt/EBITDA about 3.6 times, and book debt leverage in the mid-60% range.
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ARPU trends in both CDMA (up q/q) and iDEN (flat q/q) will be interesting - we currently expect overall ARPU to continue to decline albeit at a slower rate.
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Nortel's Planned Transfer to Flextronics (Flex-NASDAQ, Sector Outperformer): Over the next three quarters Nortel will be transferring the bulk of its manufacturing to Flextronics.
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Southern Company is a registered electric utility holding company with five utility operating subsidiaries, Alabama Power Company, Georgia Power Company, Gulf Power Company, Mississippi Power Company and Savannah Electric Company.
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Progress regarding commercialization activities is under way as well in that the Gorgon and four other liquefied natural gas schemes are well advanced.
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A U.S. propertycasualty reinsurer operating through brokers.
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7) Overall consumer confidence shows the most relative strength since the beginning of 2003 among households earning over $50,000/year.
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This was due to the addition of offices, geography, product, and acquisitions.
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DT tendering an offer to acquire Telecom Italia which was perceived as a threat to FT.
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With a decline in MIPS pricing and the rise of client-server architecture in the mid 1990s, BMC set out to diversify its offerings by acquiring Patrol Software in January 1994.
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