We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is 1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is 4.90, down from 4.95.
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The early read from the Home Depot meeting is mixed, ... Though we feel that the company is generally positive as earnings-per-share estimates should go up, our enthusiasm is tempered by what looks like a lower total sales and comparable sales number for their fourth quarter.
With sustainable high-teens earnings-per-share growth, no matter what the cycle, we think a market multiple significantly undervalues this excellent retailer.
While the earnings-per-share outlook was inline with expectations, Network Appliance provided a positive revenue outlook for the fourth-quarter with IBM business just beginning to ramp.
IBM had a good quarter with excellent earnings-per-share results. We continued to improve our profit performance with our strategic focus on higher-value segments of the marketplace, as well as with our emphasis on productivity and global integration.
As promised, we delivered a very strong earnings-per-share (excluding nonrecurring items) performance in 1998, ... We did this in a year where not everything was going our way, which demonstrates our ability-and commitment-to tight management despite soft revenues in key markets.
We continue to view the stock pullback as a buying opportunity, with Apple's price-to-earnings at 17 times our calendar 2007 operating earnings-per-share estimate.
We believe they will improve our earnings-per-share and ultimately enhance our shareholder value.
We will do about 350 million or more this year on staples.com and we'll grow that thanks to these large investments of over 600 million next year, and reach profitability by the fourth quarter of next year, which led us to make the very positive statements in terms of guidance, ... Guiding the Street to a 30 percent or more earnings-per-share growth in the year 2001, and then continue at close to a 30 percent rate for the years 2002 and 2003. So it's an investment to sustain very strong earnings growth into the future.
Based on everything we know today, we believe the current earnings-per-share consensus for the fourth quarter is reasonable.
Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12 a year for 25 years. But I think the clock stopped for Sara Lee in 1995.
Our confidence in delivering another strong year in 2006 is high and reflected in the fact we raised our earnings-per-share guidance early in the year.
It is important to keep in mind that typically eBay's initial next year's guidance is extremely conservative. In fact, over the past 4 years, eBay has outperformed its original next year's revenue and earnings-per-share guidance by 13 and 23, respectively.
The global pharmaceutical group multiple on 2006 earnings-per-share estimates is currently about 15 times, and Pfizer currently trades at 10.9 times.
Unfortunately, disappointing earnings have been a pattern for Magic Software in recent weeks. This is the fourth time in the last six months in which we have reduced our earnings-per-share estimates for the company.