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As incremental benefits in hypertension drugs have been very profitable in the recent past (A2 antagonists have become a $800 million class in two years), an advantage in safety or efficacy could drive sales beyond our forecasts.
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One of the more amazing aspects of General Electric's fundamental performance, in addition to its recent accelerating rate of growth, has been the seemingly continual improvement in how significantly it continues to improve on its already highly.
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Although IDS still faces some challenges, the favorable leverage from BCAG should continue to dominate investor focus.
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The mechanics of how Avon gets to its effective tax rate are complex but in our numbers, after puts and takes, Avon beat our expectations by a clean $0.02 on the strength of its international business operating profit.
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Although this is a real possibility, we believe that Pixar is determined to control more of its business given the expanding nature of its business and the unparalleled track record of their film properties.
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This exceeded its guidance of 0%-2% sequential growth, our high on the Street estimate of $460 million and the consensus at $454 million.
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This study is based on the complete remissions achieved in the Phase I and II trial of epratuzumab in aggressive NHL patients who have failed prior chemotherapy and antibody therapy.
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Visible BGS results compensate for no Argentine contribution & slight dilution from accelerated '02 equity.
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The primary culprit was an 11% annualized decline in service charges from the fourth quarter, mainly due to seasonality.
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Fully-human monoclonal anti-IL-12 antibody that could be the next generation treatment to Humira.
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For the third quarter, we are forecasting a 5% volume decline for Japan.
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In addition, the company recently introduced the world's first fivehorsepower, high-performance cordless lawn mower.
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This growth will be paced by the low-end Emerging Business Services..
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Newmont also mines and processes gold and silver ore in the United States, Ca nada, Bolivia, and Australia..
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Recent macroeconomic data, particulary related to the employment market and personal bankruptcy filings, has been weak.
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Sprint PCS's strong growth in 2001 was achieved through the success of its ASL or Clear Pay plans, targeted at those with weak credit records.
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* With a war chest of $200-$400 million in excess capital (and $200 million in annual free cash flow) after the Guarantee Life acquisition, we expect JP to continue to investigate potential acquisition opportunities to add scale to its primary businesses.
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(2) Excludes Q4'05 severance expense of $23mm and write-down of abandoned projects of $32mm.
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While the cuts could be meaningful, we see downside risk roughly in line with most of its peers.
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We expect the company to exceed its plan of adding 365 stores this year.
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Moreover, we think all of these problems stem from substandard corporate governance.
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* Henderson (U.S.): PD recently completed a development project to increase the annual moly production capacity to 18,100 tpy from 14,500 tpy, at an estimated cost of $20MM.
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We anticipate international Avonex sales will reach $57 million in the fourth quarter, and $214 million for the full year 2000.
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NIKE women is a multichannel concept selling through its traditional accounts, owned retail (9 stores now with another 4 planned by October), e-commerce and a new catalog; in 2004 the later three channels reached 9 million women.
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GLW's fiber sales are directly correlated to carrier capex, and these numbers continue to come down.
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ISIS has published that the inhibition of apoB-100 expression in several mouse models not only reduced plasma LDL and cholesterol, but it also induced changes in gene expression in the liver, leading to improved liver function (Crooke et. al.
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Phelps is targeting unit costs for the fourth quarter of 2001 of around $0.70-0.71 per pound of copper..
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Similarly, our reduction to our 2002 estimate was driven by the desire to incorporate a greater degree of conservatism in our outlook amidst the uncertain market environment.
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Resetting the Platform For Improved Results In 2005E.
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At 1.18 times adjusted book value (pre-FAS 115), Ambac is also in the middle of its historical range of 0.66-1.77 times.
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survey, they did suggest relative stability in Taxus and Cypher market shares until 2007.
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However, operating leverage from volatile incentive management fees is material and the company's adjusted EBITDA performance following September 11th was relatively in-line with the leading owner/operators.
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Management considers Golden West's collateral-based lending model - and reliance on an in-house appraisal staff - the "secret sauce" that has resulted in industry leading credit performance through the cycle.
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Another 90,000 municipal account members is expected to convert to ASO this year.
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In addition, the company is working with clinical investigators to evaluate each patient treated with Tysabri in clinical trials through a physical examination and MRI, as well as hold discussions with leading experts in the field of PML.
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As such, our Q2 and 2004 estimates remain unchanged at this time.
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Results reflected linked quarter positive operating leverage off a sluggish prior quarter (revenues up 3% core, expenses down 2% core - not annualized).
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ADP Hollander's product line includes Powerlink, Hollander Yard Management System, EDEN, AccuPart, ProScanner, and the Hollander Interchange.
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MARKETING ONEOK Gas Marketing Company markets natural gas to wholesale and retail customers in the United States.
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The reason is, as long as there is no scandal which of course can't always happen, co-branding will possibly bring in the Walt Disney person, it might bring in the hospital worker or the patient or it might bring in the Wal-Mart shopper that ordinarily would not patronize the free standing McDonald's, or might not drive through a McDonald's.
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The trigger is believed to be shareholder pressure on the company to act decisively to get the stock price moving.
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Our price target of $58 is based on WMT shares selling at 16x-17x our FY09 EPS estimate of $3.50, or at a P/E-to-growth rate premium of 28% assuming a 13% five-year CAGR for EPS.
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Data analysis is ongoing, with data from these studies expected to be submitted to the FDA in early 2002.
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For instance, Honeywell has indicated that its security monitoring business (which is not an integral component for its other Building Controls business) in its Automation & Control segment has now been put up for sale.
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We also believe the company's lack of debt helps illustrate the company's solid financial foundation.
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Since the supply of U.S. Gulf jackups peaked in 2001 at 156 rigs, 46 units have either left the rig supply by mobilizing out of the U.S. Gulf or through rig attrition, which has reduced the current supply to 110 rigs.
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Accounting for roughly 40% of ITT's Defense business, Services represents a great business model for the company with a lot of opportunities to pursue.
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The $0.30 downside surprise versus our est. was the result of a $0.31 downside variance among the oper.
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Over 25 antibodies have been developed, and the companies would like to move the most potent candidates into the clinic this year.
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Management maintained its existing 2002 EPS guidance of $2.06-2.18 and provided guidance for 2Q02 that is slightly higher than our prior estimate.
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SG&A of $198 million was $13 million above our estimates.
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Another example of the new CEO moving quickly to make changes at the company would include a change to the company's portfolio of businesses, either from acquisitions or divestitures (of which we have seen both at Newell Rubbermaid and Procter & Gamble).
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rates remain at current levels, the recent 100 bp increase in the Fed Funds rate would translate into $10 - $20 million incremental pre-tax income, or $0.02-$0.03 per share.
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Growth in self-pay volumes remain HMA's biggest challenge, as growth acclerated to 8.5%, from 7.0% in the prior quarter.
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In terms of the product pipeline, JNJ continues to expect to have a ceramic on ceramic hip in the US in 2005.
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We expect to see stronger results from the credit card area during the heavy credit card use periods of back-to-school and holiday spending for the second half of the year.
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The company has emerged from roots as a database developer; in 1979, Oracle's predecessor, Relational Software, released the first commercially available implementation of the SQL database query language.
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We believe tolevamer is more likely to find use as a treatment for recurrent CDAD.
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DuPont highlighted its growth in foreign markets especially its seed growth in corn and soy, where the company is taking share.
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Exhibit 2 shows that when we work backwards from the $1.10 that Mattel printed last year, and we add back the items that Mattel flowed through its P&L past year (that some less "stand-up" companies would exclude as "nonrecurring items") we get to operating earnings of about $1.28 last year.
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Demographic trends support continuing demand for the retirement products and services offered by Lincoln National.
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Based on this opportunity, we believe that the timing was excellent for Danaher to introduce a one-stop-shop for water and wastewater instrumentation at this year's tradeshow.
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Airbus will have a competitor for the 787 in the A350 and Boeing will have a competitor in the A380 with the 747-8.
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Jude expects its full-year CVA revenues to grow 25-30% to roughly $160-165MM.
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Once we have established a view of the intrinsic value of the business, we evaluate the factors that might cause the stock price to converge on or diverge from our estimate of the intrinsic value of the business.
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Meredith will have net debt of approximately $475 million after closing the acquisition of WGNX.
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We arrive at our $31 price target by applying a 20 times multiple to our $369.9 million estimate of 2002 EBITDA, then adjusting for debt, cash and hidden assets.
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Most notably, eBay's largest segment, US transaction revenue at 38% of total revenue, saw only 19% Y/Y revenue growth compared to 39% Y/Y in CQ1:04.
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SPLS announced it will acquire the mail order business of Guilbert for 825mm euros, or about 16x EBITDA which appears consistent with other direct mail acquisitions.
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6. Raising 2000 EPS estimates from to $0.78 and introducing a preliminary 2001 EPS estimate of $1.10.
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Our EPS goes to $5.62 overall revenue forecast doesn't really change, but gross margin dollars in Hardware (returns improvement) and Software (revenue strength) should be higher than we first modeled and IBM share buybacks should increase YoY.
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Internationally, Transocean expects Angola, Nigeria, Mexico, the Middle East and India rig demand to increase.
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Customer service is showing signs of improvement, despite a reduction in workforce, with the percentage of claims resolved in a single submission moving higher.
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Apple's U.S. retail presence has also received a strong boost from the company's growing relationship with Best Buy.
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2006 costs increase: The company currently expects operating and maintenance costs to exceed the level of costs reported for the fourth quarter of 2005 by approximately $30 to $50 million in the first quarter of 2006 and $70 to $90 million in the second quarter.
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The $1.4B components biz (20% of total revs) is just above breakeven now.
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We believe APCC is well positioned to capitalize on this increased IT spend..
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GE's AAA credit rating, cash generated from the commercial finance receivables portfolio, and asset securitizations all allow for successful execution of this strategy.
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The Managed Access segment posted sales of $84.3 million, falling short of our expectation of $100.1 million.
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In summary, we noted no disclosures or balances in EMC's Q2 10-Q that we consider to be of a unusual or unexpected nature.
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During the quarter, Delta repurchased 3.9 million shares of stock under two authorized share repurchase programs.
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recently lowered to reflect management's revised guidance earlier this year.
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After considering the specials, Staples' price advantage narrowed to 1.3%, as there were three items in the Stop & Shop that customers could purchase for significant savings if they used their Stop & Shop customer loyalty card (Exhibit 26).
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Division I faces a relatively easy comp increase of 4.2% in Q3 of 2002.
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In addition, the company highlighted that it had the strongest March results in its history and that sales in April have remained strong.
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Valuations: based on an average share price that year, (E): based on a share price of US$29.75 on 27 Jul 2004; Source: Company accounts, Thomson Financial, UBS estimates.
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DGX's strong 2Q earnings results and improved FY07 outlook has prompted us to raise our FY07 EPS estimate to $2.80 (from $2.75) and our FY08 EPS estimate to $3.19 (from $3.13).
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This would leave the company with $1.3 billion in unrestricted cash and equivalents after the deal.
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$0.20 per share, while the First Call consensus estimate was a loss of $0.19 per share.
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Operating margin (before non-recurring charges) was down 30 basis points sequentially at 3.1% of sales due to lower SG&A expense as a percentage of revenue (5.2% versus 5.6% last quarter).
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5,006,528, which covers aripiprazole and expires in October 2014.
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We were 5 above prior guidance at $3.35, new 2006E EPS of $3.45 puts us right at upper end of range.
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Lucent believes that the straight impact, without synergies, is a few pennies dilution to Fiscal 1999 results.
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The pivotal Phase III trial conducted by development partner GPC Biotech failed to demonstrate a survival benefit in this cancer setting.
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We expect the company to continue hedging its E&P production with natural gas and crude oil prices at very favorable levels.
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The pipeline of new ideas to drive future comparable store sales growth and improve productivity remains full.
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Division results for 1Q06 are unadjusted for one-time items.
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Nonetheless, today we are cutting our assumptions for Revlimid first line use in 2007.
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We rate ChevronTexaco Outperform with a $55 target price.
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