We continue to believe that the first quarter will be the toughest quarter for online advertising. We expect market growth of only 10 percent year-over-year. We believe growth will then accelerate modestly through the year.
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We would therefore remain cautious about adding new money to online advertising-driven stocks until the first or second quarter, when we should have better visibility. We continue to believe that the first quarter will be the toughest quarter, with only 10 percent year-over-year growth.
Two thousand and five was the year of the emerging market. Booming demand in the Southern Hemisphere, in regions such as India and Africa, drove global mobile phone sales 19 percent higher year-over-year. Emerging markets accounted for one half of total worldwide sales in 2005.
We expect European company margins to reverse a seven-consecutive-quarter trend of year-over-year declines and begin to show recovery. This could be an inflection point for European profitability.
The California housing market continues to experience year-over-year double-digit price appreciation, which is consistent with our expectation that the statewide median for 2005 will increase by 16 percent over last year.
Worker productivity generally creates a scenario where employees realize they can begin to demand more for what they do. While the year-over-year productivity gains are still quite good, there is some evidence that wage inflation may be starting to creep in. The Fed won't like this.
One year ago, we were underperforming the overall advertising market, ... Now, because of this balance, we feel confident that we will achieve double-digit year-over-year growth in marketing services during the second half of this year.
There's an even more compelling argument. Any industry that goes through a tough time inevitably goes through a period of easy comparisons, that is, when the current environment, no matter how lousy, looks better than the year before. While January is no great shakes, ... sequential year-over-year revenue improvement is likely to resume in February and continue for every month through the third quarter of 2002.
We are seeing phenomenal growth in the SSL VPN market, with an average year-over-year increase of 40 percent, and Synergy acknowledges Array's contribution to this marketplace. By ranking among the top 6 SSL VPN solution providers, Array Networks has surfaced as one of the leading players in this competitive industry.
The arithmetic works in their favor. Looking at year-over-year comparisons, March last year was among the weakest months where retail sales also suffered because of a late Easter.
Our record December sales results are further evidence of the great work being done by Associates throughout our company. More effective advertising, improved inventory in-stock levels and a tightly integrated multi-channel offering helped drive the year-over-year improvement. A strong increase in the average ticket size more than offset a reduction in traffic, compared with the prior year.
We continue to believe in the long-term growth of online advertising. Near-term, however, we don't believe the market will bottom until the first quarter. We estimate only single-digit year-over-year market growth in the first quarter.
Although this is lower than our previous guidance, it still reflects strong year-over-year improvement, ... I remain very confident in the long-term strength of the information technology market and in Compaq's ability to be one of the clear leaders.
We're very pleased to report year-over-year revenue growth of 65 percent and net income that was nearly twice the year-ago level. Looking ahead to the second quarter of fiscal 2006, we expect revenue of about 4.3 billion. We expect GAAP earnings per diluted share of about .38, including an estimated .04 per share expense impact from non-cash stock-based compensation, translating to non-GAAP EPS of about .42.
As a result of our strong cash flow and continued efforts to strengthen our balance sheet we improved our year-over-year debt, net of cash position by 300 million despite having repurchased 31.8 million of common stock year to date,
Sales for the month of February continued to decrease compared to last year. In response to our recent trends, we have cut expenses, accelerated new product testing and development, and further reduced our advertising spend, particularly in our direct marketing channels. In the near term, we expect our reduced advertising to contribute to continued lower year-over-year sales results. Our focus continues to be the introduction of new and innovative products, the optimization of advertising expenditures, and to lower expenses and inventory levels.