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Product Line Grows Organically and With Freshwater.
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SG&A increased 6.1%; up 30 bp to 15.2% of sales due to higher sales and marketing expenses at Biolab and $6 million of legal expenses.
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While short-cycle products (i.e., NAM surface trees & distributed valves) present near-term concern on volume & pricing into a potential drop in the North America rig count, order flow on large projects is also a concern, particularly as players in highly concentrated markets (i.e., subsea trees, large engineered valves and subsea BOPs) will likely compete on pricing to maintain/grow market share.
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Drivers Of Demand For The Industry: Demand is driven by consumer disposable income, employment, investment in new establishments, and the underlying trend for increased convenience.
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As such, Mead's last three quarters should look more similar with only one quarter, the first, appearing decidedly different (i.e., weaker).
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The GCIB was weaker than forecast and worse than peer on lower IB/trading revenue, despite a lower comp.
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Sears' August total domestic comparable store sales increased 0.2%, better than the modest decline we had anticipated of a -31%).
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The SME business has been a source of strength for BellSouth as the company has added over 100K small business lines year to date, driven by increased penetration, reduced competition, and wholesale winback opportunities.
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Divesting these businesses will also relieve Brunswick of having to worry about the dynamics and risk factors of such diverse markets as portable coolers and hunting accessories.
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The benefit from the non-operating gain totaled roughly half a penny in the quarter.
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Therefore, $576 million in treasury revenues are recorded in other JPM divisions, including, according to the 10Q, Commercial Banking, Consumer & Small Business Banking and Asset & Wealth Management.
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Even though this segment is small, it is a key perceptual driver of the name.
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The legislation also provides for recovery of certain environmental costs (ammonia and limestone, which are re-agents used in scrubbers, and emission allowances) through the fuel adjustment clause; no return is provided, but costs would be recovered one-for-one on a timely basis.
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This assumes post-FY09: (a) relatively stable gross margins; (b) 30-40bps of annual SG&A leverage; (c) a decrease in Other Expense, reflecting reduced FX hedging losses (estimated at $200M in FY09) and a peaking of Endeavor royalty expense (estimated at $80M in FY09); (d) a stable to declining tax rate; and (e) 25% of annual free cash flow dedicated to share repurchases..
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CC plans to continue this survey as a means to improve both associate engagement and the customer experience.
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Our recurring 2000 estimate reflects a fourth quarter assumption of $0.31 versus $0.14 in 4Q99 and the Street consensus of $0.17/share.
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ESPN, we expect strong affiliate and advertising revenue growth of 12-15% in F4Q02 but look for margins to fall from 27-28% in F4Q01 to 24-25% in F4Q02.
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This consumer value orientation makes breakthrough innovation even more important.
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Conversely, upside risks to our Neutral rating are: (1) a larger-than-currently expected resurgence in the company's hip franchise from new product introductions in the coming quarters, coupled with leverage of those sales gains to the bottom line; (2) a rapid resumption of growth in spine and fixation; and (3) evidence of increasing growth in the overall orthopedics industry in the intermediate term..
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The near-term revenue growth opportunities for the RBOCs are modest at best. New revenue generation is hard to findDSL pricing has been coming down and if cable increases the downstream speed for its modem services, DSL may have a more difficult time competing head to head, especially since high-speed cable modem service is cheaper today than DSL in many markets on a price-perkilobit basis.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will review the merger after FERC approval and is expected to be the final approval necessary to complete the merger.
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With better store standards, remodeling of key departments, and better tailoring of merchandise, Wal-Mart should be positioned to drive higher same-store sales growth.
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Cisco Systems benefited during the quarter from strong sales into both the carrier and enterprise segment.
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Microsoft also carries over $52 billion in short-term cash, which enables it to be selectively acquisitive and to offer customers more attractive financing options than competitors.
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Adding low-cost capacity, in economist-speak, shifts the cost curve to the right.
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Adobe provided ghoulish guidance at its Fall analyst meeting.
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As a reminder, Immunex during its Q3 earnings conference call increased its fourth quarter guidance of Enbrel sales to $205-215 million from $200 million due to a 4.9% price increase in October and new patient demand.
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Profitability Map: Deterioration in RNOA expected in 2005.
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Revenues from ongoing businesses were up 7% from the year-ago period and 12.4% sequentially.
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Looking forward, Lowe's remains the better company, culturally, in our opinion.
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The bottom line growth resulted from rising profitability at both recently acquired companies and the older base businesses.
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Excluding the Sears payment and tax benefit, the increase is expected to be $200 million.
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As a result, we viewed the report as essentially in line.
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For example, management intends to continue to scale back its assortment of men's products and reallocate this space to faster turning footwear product.
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Apache does not have a high profile international exploration story like some of its peers, but rather has built a $6.6 billion equity market-cap company through well-timed, conservatively financed, and strategically targeted acquisitions over the past several years.
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Use Of Sales Blitzes Characterizes Aggressive Sales Culture.
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WellPoint, on the other hand, espouses the virtues of functional integration, while maintaining multiple legacy sub-systems which looks to us like multiple platforms.
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Consolidations now constitute 52% of total managed loans, up from 50% in the fourth quarter, and 44% a year ago.
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This strategy could place the company at a disadvantage, should another round of industry consolidation occur..
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A similar program for 200 MW will be allocated to residential and commercial customers, and another for 200 MW for industrial customers.
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Baxter's franchise may be somewhat in jeopardy, though we believe the real issues are likely to be pricing and how to maintain growth.
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We Think Better Disclosure Will Help Investors Overcome Their Fears of Increasing Headwinds in both the Semi and Solar Industries Headwinds for MEMC do appear to be increasing with the continued weakening of Semi wafer prices and shipment volumes coupled with reduced solar subsidies next year and potentially a significant amount of overall polysilicon coming on-line.
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Operational excellence DSOs of 24 days, 6.9x inventory turns and $1.5B of positive operating cash.
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The increase in loan growth was driven by the commercial loan portfolio.
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*PE and yield based on closing share price of US$8.54 from 19/07/2002.
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Our revised price target is based on our belief that investors will value shares at a 30% premium to the S&P 500 market multiple of 14x, which translates to 18.6x our '08 EPS estimate of $1.75..
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Edwards in July 2003, PeopleSoft now has 11,000+ customers, 13,000+ employees, and a total revenue base of $2.9 billion (CY02).
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Delinquencies increased 9 bps in the month and the dollars of delinquency were up 1%.
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A $0.10/mcf change in North American gas prices, annualized, would affect earnings and cash flows by $0.30 per share and $0.44 per share, respectively.
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The gain was fueled by modest growth in same-store sales and gross-margin improvement resulting from better commodity pricing and a favorable sales mix.
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At present valuations, MDT shares trade at 26x-27x our calendar 2004 EPS estimate of $1.80.
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The following disclosed European company/ies have estimates that comply with IFRS: CAH, SMIN.L.
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We continue to believe TE paper offers a relative value opportunity and in the default swaps market TE is one of the few names still trading with a risk premium baked into the valuation..
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At June 30, 2003, the Corporation's consolidated total assets, deposits and shareholders' equity were $67.3 billion, $46.7 billion and $6.8 billion, respectively..
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In fact, in petroleum circles, Dow could be viewed as reacting to other consolidators, such as Exxon with Mobil and BP with Amoco, all with major chemical positions.
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Smith issued 2006 EPS guidance of $2.15 to $2.25, versus our 2006 EPS estimate of $2.12 and the Street consensus estimate of $2.11.
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Cote is mainly focused on improving customer service (primarily sales & marketing), for which he has a 6-9 month timetable to see tangible results.
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However, a difficult telecom IT spending environment along with multiple large contract issues remain as risk factors.
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Total retail electricity sales fell 1%, due to mild weather conditions and rate cuts, while gas deliveries and transportation volumes fell 20%.
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The comments were based on a preliminary "quick" report, which in the past has been +/2% of the actual result.
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In fact, Cummins has won material market share so far since ACERT's introduction.
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The deal looks minimally accretive this year - possibly adds 1-3, but potentially adds 9 to 2004 EPS..
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Other indications such as a pre-announcement by Delta Air Lines seem to confirm this view.
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1998 Outlook Full-Year 1998 Estimate Unchanged We still think Gillette will generate a 17.6% gain in EPS, to the vicinity of $3.00, in 1998.
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Management believes there are six to eight new distribution opportunities worth pursuing..
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Accordingly, we think the multiple probably holds steady from here, a 35% premium to the S&P 500.
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The equity market appears to also view the transaction favorably, with the stock rising 25.5% since the announcement of the merger.
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Risk-reward is less attractive than other defense contractors after a substantial reduction in EBITDAP.
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However, she said capital additions since the last rate case (1992) would not be eligible for stranded cost recovery (about $100 million of Oyster Creek costs could be at risk).
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Risks We believe there are several risks to JPM reaching our $33 target price.
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ALLTEL reported solid 2Q05 results highlighted by better-than-expected wireless results and mixed wireline performance.
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700 MHz auction: T's $2.5B purchase of Aloha's 700 MHz spectrum last week has upped the ante for VZ, which has been expressing strong interest in bidding for similar spectrum in the FCC's upcoming auction.
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Notably, the note is structured with put options in years 1 (cash payment upon exercise), 5(cash or stock payment at the discretion of Novellus upon exercise hereafter), 10, 15, 20, and 25.
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PFE still feels the cholesterol reduction market has growth prospects as guidelines for target cholesterol levels have moved progressively lower, and it plans to aggressively promote new clinical data with regard to Lipitor.
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Japan Japan is Tiffany's second largest market by sales volume, after the United States.
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We note that COP's share of LUKOIL earnings were much lower than anticipated, $189 million vs. our estimate of $307 million, due to lower than expected price realizations for Russian crude and a higher tax bite.
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Despite a 17% y/y increase in marketing expense, TJX posted solid improvement in its.
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Considering that over the last three to five years, Circuit City shares have traded between 1 to 1.5 times book value, we are taking the lower end of this range as our target multiple and applying it to our adjusted book value of $6.20.
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He was the Vice Chairman and President of Old Kent Financial Corporation, which was acquired by Fifth Third Bancorp in 2001.
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In terms of unusual operating expenditures, the company expects to make the following cash outlays this year:.
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Management: An Impressive Collection Of Pharma Veterans And Long-Time Employees Last year and this year mark a period of transition for Amgen, not only from a competitive standpoint, but also in the composition of the management team.
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On Friday, we had the opportunity to visit with the CFO of Bank of New York at the company's offices with institutional clients.
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Recent economic news as well as end-market checks give us hope that a recovery is getting under way in many end markets such as automation.
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Bookings were $10.0 billion in the March quarter.
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Management expects 2005 EPS to hit the top end of its $1.35-1.45 guidance, versus our last-published forecast of $1.40.
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We note that any public plan that decides to execute an aggressive benefits design or pricing strategy in 2007 in Medicare Advantage will likely face severe repercussions from investors by experiencing a rapid decline in their share prices.
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We are adjusting our F08 EPS estimates primarily to incorporate higher expenses associated with longer-term investments (including for the Tokyo A&F flagship which will not benefit sales until F09).
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However, as the dollar has strengthened over the past three quarters, the tables have turned, and we believe eBay will face a currency exchange headwind in the first quarter of 2006.
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The SX/EW is a cost-effective process for chemically extracting copper from low grade ores.
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Our new cost savings estimates are for at least $250 million in savings/year.
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With the acquisition of larger markets such as Cleveland, Tampa, Phoenix and New Orleans ALLTEL's profile includes a larger percentage of metropolitan markets.
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Hence, while it looks like Boston has the financing to make this deal happen, it is massively dilutive and Boston's estimates of the deal being non-dilutive by 2008 seem very unrealistic.
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We look for these contracts to be EPS neutral-to-slightly positive in the December 2001 quarter.
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It includes messaging, IP voice, contact center software.
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To be fair, piracy was actually a 1% headwind in the quarter for the Client business vs a positive low single digit contributor during the past several quarters.
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Net Interest Income Was Lower Than We Had Projected.
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But it also gave us the sense that exports to international markets may taper as pricing rises to that level..
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Of the residential lines lost, 4,300 were second lines versus 3,900 in the previous quarter.
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Security remains a top focus and the company is planning to invest more in R&D as well as market awareness for the security offering.
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Until we get more data points on this topic and observe DSOs come down, we view this as a material issue..
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