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Truck Tonnage Historically Lead Average Comps by 3 Quarters.
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In this FD-dominated environment, we rely solely on our models, rather than management guidance.
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SPS reported pro form pre-tax loss of ($335) million, slightly ahead of our forecast loss of ($352) million.
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Knight Ridder and New York Times, both with similar pure-play newspaper characteristics, are trading below 10 times 2000 EBITDA estimates.
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The lack of market volatility negatively impacted Global Clearing Services.
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We are forecasting postpaid net adds of 435k for full-year 2006 and 700k for 2007.
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The Qwest / IBM alliance is projected by the two companies to yield $5 billion revenues over its seven year term.
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Pfizer anticipates hosting meetings with the FDA later this year, pending discussions with the agency, in accessing filing strategies and possible commercialization of avasimibe..
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Pepperidge Farm and Arnott's sales rose 2% for the first quarter.
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The company provided an extensive operational update, outlining how it expects to achieve this impressive organic growth.
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Management will provide a detailed product strategy which includes: 1) new initiatives on customer acquisition and retention for the QuickBooks product line, 2) new professional tax product to help INTU regain ground, 3) detail product offerings for emerging areas of growth across multiple businesses, more specifically, the company will innovate upward by adding new functions to meet customer needs and focus on non-users who are not buying commercially available solutions, as well as 4) initiatives to sustain longer term growth, possibly including international expansion..
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Valuation Supported by Rapid Growth and ICE as a Potential Takeout Candidate: ICE currently trades at 28.1x our 2008 estimate of $4.92, versus 30.2x for CME Group and 30.5 for Nymex.
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But, we would acknowledge that each business area went into a fair amount of detail as to their strategic initiatives.
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Flight deck displays for tactical aircraft, optical technologies, and specialized aircraft products..
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One of the strengths of Western Union's business model is that agent locations have a networking effect.
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Under the consent decree, Abbott could not manufacture or distribute certain diagnostic products until the operations were found to be in conformity with the current Quality System Regulation (QSR).
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ECL's debt-to-cap ratio stands at 32% with net debt of 29% at the end of the second quarter.
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If we are wrong on either count, so much the better..
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As we recently noted, we believe there is $300-$400 million in upside in our U.S. forecasts this year from Peg Rebetron alone (not to mention sales in Japan which were launched in December).
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Our 2002 estimate for interest expense declines to $4.1 million from $6.0 million, and our estimate for investment and other income declines to $2.8 million from $3.0 million.
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Nortel received a number of optical networking contract awards in 1Q'99, including a $300 million follow-on contract from Williams and a significant core transport network award from Bell Nexxia.
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As illustrated in our DCF analysis in Exhibit 5, our $24 price target implies 5% long-term revenue growth and LT operating margins of 10%..
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Management indicated the company has a healthy acquisition pipeline, with 200 acquisition opportunities identified in 14 states across the Southeast and Southwest. Management intends to be very.
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Valuation and Rating Analysis The company is currently trading at 1.8X C05E sales versus its comparable company average of 1.2X sales.
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All other (Wireless Communications and Computing Group, the Communications Products Group, the Network communications Group, and the New Business Group) revenues grew 48% year-over-year.
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These banks own the ATM machines, represent the merchants, and issue the credit/debit cards used in the transaction.
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The increase in our revenue forecast drives a $0.05 increase in our EPS estimate to $1.48 (up 16% year over year).
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Numerous risks exist to our valuation and outlook for Xerox and, therefore, to the stock achieving or exceeding our target price.
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Unimpaired claimants comprise 70% of the company's current backlog, while claimants with cancer comprise only approximately 10%.
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Namely, a significant expansion of revenue opportunities directly related to Solectron's peerless success in executing the EMS business model.
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Our new 2004 estimates are $7.75/share in EPS and $18.67/share in cash flows, versus our prior estimates of $6.86/share and $17.64/share, respectively.
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The proposed MediaOne deal accelerates even more AT&T's de-emphasis of traditional circuit-switched telephony in proportion to the overall AT&T growth story.
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Roche estimates that there would be a decrease in demand in 2007 due to the stock piling of inventory by governments in case of a bird flu outbreak already having taken place.
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Mattel has increasingly emphasized its core brands, which have demonstrated sustainable demand, worldwide appeal and profitability.
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We still expect the stock to be in the mid-$60s by early 2003..
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Electronics' sales increased 8%, mainly due to higher E-O, IR, ISR, and communication revenues.
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Excluding computers, comps were up roughly 6% in the quarter..
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On this basis, profit per ton declined to $105 from $162 in the third quarter.
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We are also publishing our F02 EPS estimates of $1.88 on revenues of $2.785 billion.
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In addition to turning profitable, the possible renegotiation to extend at least half of its $7 billion revolver beyond 10/02 is an important event for the stock price over the next 10 months.
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Given flattish desktop ASPs, we estimate Intel's desktop unit shipments decline about 3-4% sequentially, slightly better than the 5+% sequential decline for desktop units that we believe to be normal seasonality in the June quarter for the market as a whole.
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Another risk here is the current investigation into whether or not one of Boeing's former employees gave Boeing preferential treatment with respect to winning contracts for the Air Force dating as far back as 2000.
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Overall credit quality remained very high, with only 30 basis points in non-accruing loans vs. 32 basis.
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The bank is also growing its on-line client base by at least 15,000 accounts per month.
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The forecast for 2009 projected a growth range of 15%-20% on the top line.
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Freddie Mac Announces Delay of Earnings Restatement Freddie Mac announced yesterday that its earnings restatement would be delayed.
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Although there are applications in which monolithic columns are limited, they do represent significant competing technology for the Acquity UPLC..
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Combined with strong y/y growth, this leadership has attracted the attention of some large software ISVs in June, Microsoft acquired GeCAD Software, a Romanian antivirus vendor.
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the industry; 2) consistent record of execution and; 3) potential for improved operating leverage, a premium valuation is warranted.
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The company said they are using a population of HIV patients to assess the risk factors of developing PML and hope to apply the knowledge to the MS community in hopes of identifying high-risk patients.
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Nonetheless, 3M has tended to be faster on the rebound than the broader economy, and in recent years this has been augmented by 3M's greater exposure to Asia and higher-growth, higher-margin electronics (Optical Films).
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Still, these results were encouraging, particularly the strength in FTTX revenues given our thesis that telecom carriers are firmly committed to building out their fiber optic networks in response to the competitive threat from cable operators.
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Should the anticipated recovery in the US economy fail or be short-lived our estimates would need to be reviewed due to the cyclical nature of the advertising-supported businesses, which are correlated to the economy.
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Convergys expect IMG operating margins "could improve" sequentially.
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� To date, L-P has completed: (1) the sale of its 65% jointventure Irish OSB facility, (2) the sale of the particleboard facility in Arcadia, CA, (3) the swap with Georgia-Pacific (GP, $13.75, Neutral, TP $14) of four plywood mills and an MDF plant for G-P's Woodland, ME OSB facility, (4) a tract of LA timberland, (5) the Chetwynd pulp mill (which will be booked in Q4), and (6) the Missoula, MT particleboard mill.
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In the December quarter, management plans to reach breakeven in the broadband access division with Mindspeed expected to consume another $20 million in cash.
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Visibility for this product should improve in the second half of 2000..
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In the institutional business, MWD had large ($10b) outflows last year, and this has already stabilized.
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We are also evaluating the case for multiple expansion..
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LOW's guided 4Q operating margins down 20 bpts, with gross margin expansion offset by expense deleveraging.
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GTEH's efforts to expand other nonregulated operations in Hawaii and the Pacific Rim countries also heighten its business-risk profile.
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Industry carload growth is tracking down 3.3% yr/yr through Week 24, approximately 2.5 percentage points below our forecast and below the -2.8% reported in Q1'07.
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In addition, the state is considering a proposal to allow the machines to pay out in coins rather than paper chits..
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NBR's current valuation suggests significant upside, against relatively limited downside, we believe.
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We maintain our target price of $46 per share and our Hold rating on Caterpillar..
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In addition, Anadarko is currently drilling a delineation well at its Tarantula (APC 100% WI) sub-salt discovery.
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We continue to look for price rollbacks at WalMart to total approximately $10 billion in 1999, up from about $6 billion in 1998.
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He does not have a non-compete that would keep him from going to another organization, although we do not know of any immediate plans.
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We believe the FD-May merger represents a compelling opportunity given the industry rationalizing, consolidating, cash generating and margin-expanding nature of the deal, and that multiple expansion above FD's 10-year historical average CY P/E of 13x is likely.
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(Evidence of this progress can be seen in EFXs recently announced global contract win from National Australia Bank, which will contribute to revenue beginning in 2Q01.) For the whole of EFX, revenue increased nearly 8% over the same quarter a year ago after adjusting to exclude acquisitions, divestitures, and exchange rate fluctuations.
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Based on lower revenue expectations for the December quarter, the company believes inventory days at Xilinx and their distributors should be at the high-end of Xilinx's corporate target of 150-180 days versus 158 days at the end of the September quarter.
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The international business is still powering ahead, growing by double-digits on a constant exchange basis.
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Of particular interest, management indicated that more than 50% of deals in 2Q03 were with customers that had the customer assurance program as part of their contract.
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Rural Markets Offer More Favorable Subscriber Economics With less competition for both primary and secondary lines, we believe ALLTEL should capture better subscriber economics and outperform the RBOCs that operate predominantly in more densely populated markets.
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Harley-Davidson's motorcycle shipments rose about 10%.
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The management works overtime to drive the business towards a consolidated, more streamlined organization.
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We recognize that this value does not assume the significant earnings potential of the Eckerd franchise.
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CIP draws in hundreds of device manufacturers, thus facilitating interoperability with the Logix Integrated architecture.
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Following the acquisition of Bestfoods in 2000, Unilever targeted synergies of 0.8 billion (150 bps margin improvement), to be achieved through a mixture of purchasing and restructuring savings.
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Gross margins were 50 basis points lower than expected, implying incremental margins at the low end of the company's guidance of 60-70%.
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The advertising and promotion ratio was 15.1% vs. 15.8%, whereas we had expected 15.8%.
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We believe CVG should improve disclosure on the emerging Employee Care biz.
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Reduced financial and operating leverage should lead to less cyclicality in earnings, and potentially a higher valuation multiple.
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The weakness in margins was attributable to the small appliance business of West Bend and market conditions for Florida Tile..
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Management predicts this will grow to 16,500 route miles by the end of 2003.
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(a) Normalized earnings exclude the impact of foreign exchange and extraordinary items.
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As a reminder, Genentech acquired Biogen Idec's NIMO Oceanside, California biologics manufacturing facility in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $408 million.
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The lion's share of the investment appears to be Digital Video Recorders (DVRs).
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The original biotechnology products were introduced to the market in the early 1980s.
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For the second quarter, earnings totaled $0.45 per share, a 20% decline from the year-ag 01 beriod and 5 cents below expectations.
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Two years from now we expect cash will have risen to about $9-11 per share as management aggressively reduces net owned inventory.
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We are now assuming revenue growth of only 9% in 2004 versus our prior estimate of 16%.
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In general, we do not think that Applied Materials can outgrow the industry average based on currently served markets.
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Competitors are unlikely to replicate this structure, which would give United a meaningful advantage in competing for business in Nevada, since physician costs represent about 45% of overall health expenditures.
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While the estimated $100 million GNS partners spent last year is small relative to American Express' overall marketing and promotional spending, it does represent incremental investment and provides benefits to American Express beyond the fees and revenues GNS partnerships generate.
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We have reduced our fourth quarter estimate to $0.67 per share from $0.97 per share, reflecting management's estimates.
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Our estimate for the year was $2.76 and the First Call consensus was $2.81.
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PFE trades at 8.0x our 09E EPS, a 31% discount to its peers; the disc.
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In a deflationary market like the one for PCs, a deflationary price curve for PC components is necessary to maintain profitability.
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