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CHRIS AHEARN This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in retu...
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LARRY WACHTEL So far the earnings season is kind of a mixed bag. It's not the catalyst that everyone was expecting...
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ALAN ACKERMAN The company has insisted that last year was an exceptional year. I don't think this (drop in earning...
DANIELE SEITZ Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN I don't expect zero earnings growth next year, but I do expect slower growth.
BARRY HYMAN We think the sell-off that we saw in Albertson's was excessive just given the sell-off, the stock to...
ASMA USMANI This dropped to 95 percent with a seven-year ownership term and to 92 percent with a five-year owner...
MARK MILNER After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on ...
AUSTIN LIGON Obviously the Iranian thing is a wild card and nothing's going to get resolved in the short term, bu...
MARC PADO Sure, earnings will be slower than they were in the fourth quarter, but margins can't expand forever...
EDWARD KEON In the longer term, we are more optimistic. When you look past this short-term uncertainty, the glob...
LARS KRECKEL While we are clearly disappointed with our preliminary results for the first quarter, and we have ma...
DAVID KRALL I think there's apathy in the market. The cruel reality is that earnings do matter and, in the absen...
BARRY HYMAN Because of the long-term growth outlook for the company and the stability of earnings generated by t...
GREG TEETS Clearly the costs are huge. Just the lost revenue itself is substantial, plus all the other expense ...
AL BECKER The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year comp...
DOUGLAS ELLIOTT The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year ...
DOUGLAS ELLIOTT The downside risks of higher interest rates and slower earnings growth are becoming greater.
ANDRE CHABOT Overall, these results are an excellent catalyst for the stock and we look for the stock to rally si...
BARRY RICHARDS Schroder Tokyo's performance has been a little disappointing during the past year. But even so, it h...
BEN YEARSLEY
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea... JACK WELCH The real short-term outlook for us is pretty positive given that we don't see a Fed rate hike in Aug...
CHRIS WOLFE We have to make sure that one or two storms are not going to wipe out the company.
JOE MCCORMICK The market's at the top of a range here. The earnings reporting period basically ended with Dell and...
DONALD SELKIN Based on the robust results, we are are confident of achieving our full-year objectives for new reco...
DANIEL VASELLA The good news is that it's a slower rate of increase than last year. But it's still substantially hi...
GARY CLAXTON Cheap is a relative term. In terms of price-to-earnings ratios, some of these stocks are still high.
CHARLES BLOOD This is a company that is clearly in rebuild mode. It's still somewhat of a 'show me' situation but ...
ANDREW ROSKILL Near-term, in a market environment in which investors are fleeing to quality, its stock could contin...
HENRY BLODGET If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... TCF Financial (has) this very unique strategy. It's (opening) 25-to-35 branches a year and just grow...
ANDREW COLLINS I think the key in the market is technology, because what has been giving us this extraordinary earn...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT I think that the company still has a good handle on what its longer-term strategy has to be -- a div...
SANFORD BERNSTEIN Winnebago Industries' fiscal 2005 results represent the second best year in the Company's 47-year hi...
BRUCE HERTZKE For the full fiscal year 1999, we are targeting earnings growth with more promising prospects eviden...
BRUCE ROHDE We expect it to contribute meaningfully to our business this year and next year, but clearly not to ...
ALFRED VERRECCHIA With this series of storms, it has been really rough. Very few boats have gone out since Christmas a...
DAVE YARGER Earnings are coming in 'in line' with expectations. We should still be up 15 percent year-over-year ...
ALFRED KUGEL
They've agreed to a merger so short-term earnings are not a priority right now. ERIC SCHMIDT Monday morning you have the whole election thing going on with the (results) of the recount issue bu...
BRYAN PISKOROWSKI We do not see a significant positive catalyst in the near term, so we think the shares are likely to...
GREGORY SMITH DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in 2005. But our earnings are still not where we want them...
DIETER ZETSCHE The oil rise benefits energy stocks, shares are fairly valued and we expect decent earnings this yea...
FELIX LANTERS We are deeply disappointed with this reduced outlook for our company. This level of earnings and cas...
VANCE COFFMAN We're still considering the two proposals we have. It's clearly taking a little longer than we thoug...
HANK WEBBER This a cash machine that is sharing the wealth. That's an important catalyst for long-term growth.
DAVID HARTLEY Metals and energy are still the place to be long-term. Look at the three- and five-year curves, they...
MARK MATHIAS I think the most important thing that investors want to hear from the company is what it thinks is a...
SEAN MCGOWAN We do not expect significant upside to our estimates. As we have said before, we believe the company...
HENRY BLODGET When you look at other companies who have undergone situations like this, this pattern is not atypic...
DAVID BARNES This is a short-term positive for some tech companies but it's a longer-term negative for the U.S. e...
ADAM ADELMAN There are still 60,000 people in tents today and that's clearly unacceptable a year after the tsunam...
ANDREW STEER Clearly this is a shock. But clearly in our mind it is going to validate the inherent value of the c...
BRIAN LANGENBERG I don't think Federated will be alone in talking down earnings expectations for the quarter and also...
JEFF STINSON Theres still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology,
BOB SPITZ While marketers have clearly recognized that they have delivery challenges, they also are not alloca...
LOREN MCDONALD We may do slightly better in sales and in profitability than present consensus expectations of the i...
CHRISTOPHER GALVIN We see this as building a longer-term relationship between us and Wal-Mart.
ERTHARIN COUSIN I know we beat them by a lot. But you can't think about that. They're a new team this year just like...
JENNIFER HUMPHREY We are still the same flea market, just a new location. And we are keeping our fingers crossed that ...
AL COHEN The market needs a catalyst right now with all this bad news weighing on it. It's up to earnings to ...
BRIAN WILLIAMSON The market is waiting to see the earnings because that is your first catalyst in the market that can...
BARRY HYMAN They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter st...
CHRIS AHEARN This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in retu...
ROBERT ALLEN So far the earnings season is kind of a mixed bag. It's not the catalyst that everyone was expecting...
LARRY WACHTEL So far the earnings season is kind of a mixed bag. It's not the catalyst that everyone was expecting...
LARRY WACHTEL We chuckle when we hear about the short-term holiday effect because the way that EA has been growing...
DAN AHRENS We are clearly headed for a record year, ... It can't continue at this level.
DWIGHT DIVELY This past year has been a challenging period ... as economic slowdowns in several key markets had a ...
M. DOUGLAS IVESTER Investors can be assured that the company is financially sound and focused on improving our longer-t...
BOB ROSSITER It has been hammered on an earnings warnings very recently, but their long-term earnings are very mu...
CISCO SYSTEMS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The first two quarters of last year were OK but not stellar. If we still have double digit increases...
KEN PERKINS At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, w...
DAVID H. MURDOCK Though this news is clearly a disappointment, we believe that the damage is largely done and the 10 ...
JAMI RUBIN Slower than expected sales growth over the course of the year led to a trimming of marketing spend c...
CHRIS WILLIAMSON Clearly, Microsoft is the catalyst for today's tech sell-off.
ALAN SKRAINKA A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Although this was a difficult quarter for CA, we have not changed our view of the long-term prospect...
CHARLES WANG We are committed to being the dominant, global casual dining portfolio restaurant company. Our world...
DOUG BROOKS There are countries in Africa who also need our help, but were not there because theres no oil there...
JEFF WHITE
The short-term folks that are worried about earnings are providing us long-term investors some great... SHAWN JOHNSON I'm very pleased that we achieved our third consecutive year of higher sales and also our third cons...
MACKEY MCDONALD
Clearly it would be quite nice to get to 400 pence (but) that will only be a journey. The market wil... STUART ROSE If the company wins at this price, we see it as a long-term positive.
LAWRENCE KLATZKIN The bottom line is that, despite some longer-term issues, we think weak industry sentiment combined ...
BENJAMIN SCHACHTER We still lag behind foreign rivals in terms of per-share earnings, and we would like to expand our e...
NOBUO KUROYANAGI Investors are still looking for the economy to begin to pick up toward the end of this year with pos...
DENNIS FERRO A catalyst for a higher Australian dollar versus New Zealand's dollar could be relative monetary pol...
ASHLEY DAVIES A catalyst for a higher Australian dollar versus New Zealand's dollar could be relative monetary pol...
ASHLEY DAVIES We are pleased to announce record earnings today which have exceeded the expectations we set for the...
DAVID PETERSCHMIDT Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buy...
KENICHI AZUMA The earnings picture is really good now, but, you know, enjoy it while it lasts. Third and fourth qu...
HUGH JOHNSON We fear that people are mistaking the size of our earnings for a windfall, not realizing the enormou...
JAMES MULVA BA is a profitable company not one in crisis. It must be remembered that pensions are deferred earni...
BRENDAN GOLD
We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms. BEN NELSON Due to the prolonged flatness to slight inversion in the yield curve, the company is focused on stab...
JAY SIDHU Retailers are getting better and better at managing shipments, but any screw-up, and you lose the cu...
LARRY FREED We have changed our training a little this year; our routines have gotten longer. To get prepared fo...
MILES AVERY We expect this trend to continue during 2006 as house prices rise at a slower pace than earnings, th...
MARTIN ELLIS Clearly, the computers are still trying to catch up with that surge of new enrollees.
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