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Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself underval...
CAROL LOOMIS We believe that Japan's premium (price-to-earnings) multiple is justified given the lower level of i...
KATHY MATSUI Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings...
TIMOTHY NOAH Our price objective is based on a 40 times PE (price/earnings) applied to our new 2005 earnings per ...
JASON MAYNARD That (HMO) group has been in a lot of pressure over the last year, as they've had disappointing earn...
DAVID KATZ Our anticipated results for our second quarter and the remainder of fiscal 2006 reflect smaller year...
ARA HOVNANIAN Don't buy your favorite stock until you see the earnings statement. It's better to have the trend wi...
BARRY HYMAN We know Katrina had a negative impact on earnings, ... They (investors) are looking more forward tha...
MICHAEL CARTY In general, software companies are more rapidly growing companies with higher margins. These compani...
ART RUSSELL We expect earnings to improve sequentially in 2006 predicated on higher copper and zinc price realiz...
TONY LESIAK My sense is that an earnings recovery is further away than expected and there is no immediate cataly...
ALAN ACKERMAN We are deeply disappointed our lowered guidance for third-quarter earnings precipitated such a drama...
DICK BROWN Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate pri...
RALPH ACAMPORA We believe that Compaq also did a good job on the profitability front, which should enable operating...
DAN NILES We have no problem with the board aiming for a higher price. However, should the company pursue the ...
MITCHELL CORWIN The big qualifier on that is that a lot of the price action we've seen in equity markets and earning...
ALEX SCOTT There have been a few major disappointments, but by and large, earnings are coming in very strong. M...
BRIAN GENDREAU Although we had anticipated tepid guidance, the company was far more conservative than we anticipate...
BILL SHOPE Generally, earnings are better than expected and I think the stock market is receptive to that.
TOM SCHRADER This earnings increase is the highest we have seen since 1999. It has been growing much faster than ...
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To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ For guidance it's not so bad. They are looking for low double-digit percentage growth in EBITDA. We ...
ANTHONY DICLEMENTE Earnings have grown much more than stock prices. I would be a broad buyer of stocks for the next yea...
TONY DWYER We've now changed the valuation of the stock market quite a bit, ... If anything, the earnings estim...
ALFRED KUGEL That's very bearish, ... The imports are higher than we anticipated.
ED SILLIERE It looks like yet again we're going to get a quarter with higher-than-expected earnings. Earnings gu...
BRIAN GENDREAU I think Xerox has got a long way to go. The earnings performance and outlook are even worse than ant...
BEN REITZES We continue to see bias to the buying side, but it's less drastic than yesterday. We're in a wait-an...
HEDI REYNOLDS Every day you are getting new downgrades and (target) price cuts that add fuel to the downside fire....
ARNIE OWEN Every day you are getting new downgrades and (target) price cuts that add fuel to the downside fire,...
ARNIE OWEN What's going to drive stock gains going forward is the earnings, and the current crop of earnings ma...
KEVIN CARON (I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate....
CHARLES LEMONIDES The type of investors who own this stock are not looking at it saying, 'I'm willing to pay 80 times ...
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Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS We finished the quarter with earnings of 25 cents per share, at the top end of our guidance range. E...
AUSTIN LIGON A higher valuation is justified when a company's earnings growth is significant. AMD's growth prospe...
JOANNE FEENEY Many of the leading technology companies have shown solid sales and earnings growth since the econom...
EDWARD JONES Stocks remain richly valued as a multiple of earnings. If earnings do not accurately represent the f...
DORSEY FARR We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
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STEPHEN KIM Based on the robust results, we are are confident of achieving our full-year objectives for new reco...
DANIEL VASELLA Average earnings growth was far softer than anticipated. It remained at 3.5% ... and is well below t...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Earnings may surprise on the upside because of stronger than anticipated credit growth. There's been...
JACK CHEMELLO The economic environment looks much less favorable than we had anticipated at the beginning of the y...
EDOUARD MICHELIN We have estimated the losses at GE Insurance Solutions from the storm and its aftermath, and despite...
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we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI People buy these stocks anticipating earnings surprises, so even though these are great earnings, th...
GLENN ENGEL If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... At first blush, lower-than-expected tax rates were a major contributor to the earnings-per-share ups...
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We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Although we are on track with our expected results for personal auto and small commercial, our expec...
BOB DICKEY We missed earnings for the year. Our stock is currently in the penalty box.
JAMES FETIG Given the challenges Intel faces currently with its business model, we think the stock needs to trad...
JOE OSHA The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates a...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I do think it's clear that people are starting to focus on earnings and when people are going to sta...
DALTON CHANDLER What little earnings reports we have had have been a little bit more disappointing than outperformin...
JAMES PAULSEN Ford's restructuring plan was widely anticipated, but was more vague and protracted than we expected...
ROBERT BARRY Well the key basically is the fact that the stock market is in itself cheap. Usually high, by intern...
ANGUS BLAIR We're looking for stocks that are showing accelerating earnings growth. Stock appreciation will foll...
LYNETTE SCHROEDER We think this is a more positive outlook than many on the Street were looking for and should have a ...
CHARLES BOUCHER We're still going to get some stray previews. I am much more confident the disappointments will be p...
CLARK YINGST We are higher than we were last year. We are higher than we were in June, but we are lower than a fe...
JO ANNE SANFORD We're good for the first six months of the year, looking at what the economy is doing, at earnings a...
CHARLES ROTBLUT![]()
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Certainly we would like to see the stock perform better, ... I think it's up to management to do a b...
ROBERT PALMER All of the government statistics have been far less scary than consensus expectations. (Retail sales...
CHARLES CRANE In 2006, we remain focused on improving our core business and planning for the future. Based on our ...
BOB MCGEHEE I think that the market - once we get through this interest rate fear and we're more certain about t...
GRACE FEY The stock ran up since the last earnings call, and the holiday sales were in line with expectations,...
JOAN STORMS![]()
September 11 is no less appalling today than it was then, on September 11. Our determination is no l...
TONY BLAIR The numbers were larger than we anticipated.
BILL ERNEST They made the consensus numbers even after taking that charge, ... The stock has already been pummel...
BARBARA RYAN They made the consensus numbers even after taking that charge. The stock has already been pummeled i...
BARBARA RYAN With survivor benefits, it's based on the deceased spouse's work and earnings, not yours.
KURT CZARNOWSKI Despite the challenging economic environment for technology companies, we posted healthy revenue gro...
JOAN HOOPER With 2001 revenue growth rates now expected to be in a range of 9 to 18 percent and earnings per sha...
MARK ROWEN It has been hammered on an earnings warnings very recently, but their long-term earnings are very mu...
CISCO SYSTEMS One more hit of crack cocaine on these earnings. I felt we were so addicted to our quarterly earning...
KENNETH RICE A stock that's seen a lot of bad news is First Union, ... Here is a great stock with depressed earni...
DAVID OTTO We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO Stock markets can still rise. Earnings are still growing. Investors shouldn't be worried about sligh...
GUENTHER GERSTENBERGER![]()
We have seen some really big winners this week. Today was no different. With one-day gains on the ea...
WILLIAM MCKINLEY The consensus is looking for 13 percent earnings growth in Q4, which is a pretty high hurdle. Earnin...
BRIAN GENDREAU We do deserve, and should be at, a higher rating than we currently are,
MARK SWARTZ I do see the possibility of the markets having a 200 or 300 point drop over the next 3 to 4 weeks if...
RAO CHALASANI
GEOFF MILLER Last week we saw earnings pre-announcements and a higher-than-expected producer price index move sto...
BRIAN WILLIAMSON 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...
Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself underval... CAROL LOOMIS We believe that Japan's premium (price-to-earnings) multiple is justified given the lower level of i...
KATHY MATSUI Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings...
TIMOTHY NOAH Our price objective is based on a 40 times PE (price/earnings) applied to our new 2005 earnings per ...
JASON MAYNARD That (HMO) group has been in a lot of pressure over the last year, as they've had disappointing earn...
DAVID KATZ Our anticipated results for our second quarter and the remainder of fiscal 2006 reflect smaller year...
ARA HOVNANIAN Don't buy your favorite stock until you see the earnings statement. It's better to have the trend wi...
BARRY HYMAN We know Katrina had a negative impact on earnings, ... They (investors) are looking more forward tha...
MICHAEL CARTY In general, software companies are more rapidly growing companies with higher margins. These compani...
ART RUSSELL We expect earnings to improve sequentially in 2006 predicated on higher copper and zinc price realiz...
TONY LESIAK My sense is that an earnings recovery is further away than expected and there is no immediate cataly...
ALAN ACKERMAN We are deeply disappointed our lowered guidance for third-quarter earnings precipitated such a drama...
DICK BROWN Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate pri...
RALPH ACAMPORA We believe that Compaq also did a good job on the profitability front, which should enable operating...
DAN NILES We have no problem with the board aiming for a higher price. However, should the company pursue the ...
MITCHELL CORWIN The big qualifier on that is that a lot of the price action we've seen in equity markets and earning...
ALEX SCOTT There have been a few major disappointments, but by and large, earnings are coming in very strong. M...
BRIAN GENDREAU Although we had anticipated tepid guidance, the company was far more conservative than we anticipate...
BILL SHOPE Generally, earnings are better than expected and I think the stock market is receptive to that.
TOM SCHRADER This earnings increase is the highest we have seen since 1999. It has been growing much faster than ...
ANDREW WALKER A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation ... BARRY RITHOLTZ For guidance it's not so bad. They are looking for low double-digit percentage growth in EBITDA. We ...
ANTHONY DICLEMENTE Earnings have grown much more than stock prices. I would be a broad buyer of stocks for the next yea...
TONY DWYER We've now changed the valuation of the stock market quite a bit, ... If anything, the earnings estim...
ALFRED KUGEL That's very bearish, ... The imports are higher than we anticipated.
ED SILLIERE It looks like yet again we're going to get a quarter with higher-than-expected earnings. Earnings gu...
BRIAN GENDREAU I think Xerox has got a long way to go. The earnings performance and outlook are even worse than ant...
BEN REITZES We continue to see bias to the buying side, but it's less drastic than yesterday. We're in a wait-an...
HEDI REYNOLDS Every day you are getting new downgrades and (target) price cuts that add fuel to the downside fire....
ARNIE OWEN Every day you are getting new downgrades and (target) price cuts that add fuel to the downside fire,...
ARNIE OWEN What's going to drive stock gains going forward is the earnings, and the current crop of earnings ma...
KEVIN CARON (I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate....
CHARLES LEMONIDES The type of investors who own this stock are not looking at it saying, 'I'm willing to pay 80 times ...
ETHAN MCAFEE
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS We finished the quarter with earnings of 25 cents per share, at the top end of our guidance range. E...
AUSTIN LIGON A higher valuation is justified when a company's earnings growth is significant. AMD's growth prospe...
JOANNE FEENEY Many of the leading technology companies have shown solid sales and earnings growth since the econom...
EDWARD JONES Stocks remain richly valued as a multiple of earnings. If earnings do not accurately represent the f...
DORSEY FARR We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Earnings are coming in 'in line' with expectations. We should still be up 15 percent year-over-year ...
ALFRED KUGEL The ruling itself really had no details that were completely surprising to anyone. The final ruling ...
LARRY SEIBERT It isn't so much the absolute price of oil, as it is the increasing price, ... If we sell seats base...
CLIVE BEDDOE
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN During the past few years, earnings have done far better than what economic growth alone would have ...
FRANCOIS TRAHAN We generally see exposure of less than 10 percent of earnings if a strike lasted an entire quarter, ...
ED WOLFE
The stock might come under pressure because the 'whisper number' for earnings per share was higher, ... IMRAN KHAN
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL The fact is that housing demand has not slowed meaningfully, nor have supply constraints been notice...
STEPHEN KIM The fact is that housing demand has not slowed meaningfully, nor have supply constraints been notice...
STEPHEN KIM Based on the robust results, we are are confident of achieving our full-year objectives for new reco...
DANIEL VASELLA Average earnings growth was far softer than anticipated. It remained at 3.5% ... and is well below t...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Earnings may surprise on the upside because of stronger than anticipated credit growth. There's been...
JACK CHEMELLO The economic environment looks much less favorable than we had anticipated at the beginning of the y...
EDOUARD MICHELIN We have estimated the losses at GE Insurance Solutions from the storm and its aftermath, and despite...
JEFF IMMELT
wesat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI People buy these stocks anticipating earnings surprises, so even though these are great earnings, th...
GLENN ENGEL If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... At first blush, lower-than-expected tax rates were a major contributor to the earnings-per-share ups...
QUINTIN LAI
We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER Although we are on track with our expected results for personal auto and small commercial, our expec...
BOB DICKEY We missed earnings for the year. Our stock is currently in the penalty box.
JAMES FETIG Given the challenges Intel faces currently with its business model, we think the stock needs to trad...
JOE OSHA The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates a...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I do think it's clear that people are starting to focus on earnings and when people are going to sta...
DALTON CHANDLER What little earnings reports we have had have been a little bit more disappointing than outperformin...
JAMES PAULSEN Ford's restructuring plan was widely anticipated, but was more vague and protracted than we expected...
ROBERT BARRY Well the key basically is the fact that the stock market is in itself cheap. Usually high, by intern...
ANGUS BLAIR We're looking for stocks that are showing accelerating earnings growth. Stock appreciation will foll...
LYNETTE SCHROEDER We think this is a more positive outlook than many on the Street were looking for and should have a ...
CHARLES BOUCHER We're still going to get some stray previews. I am much more confident the disappointments will be p...
CLARK YINGST We are higher than we were last year. We are higher than we were in June, but we are lower than a fe...
JO ANNE SANFORD We're good for the first six months of the year, looking at what the economy is doing, at earnings a...
CHARLES ROTBLUT
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Certainly we would like to see the stock perform better, ... I think it's up to management to do a b...
ROBERT PALMER All of the government statistics have been far less scary than consensus expectations. (Retail sales...
CHARLES CRANE In 2006, we remain focused on improving our core business and planning for the future. Based on our ...
BOB MCGEHEE I think that the market - once we get through this interest rate fear and we're more certain about t...
GRACE FEY The stock ran up since the last earnings call, and the holiday sales were in line with expectations,...
JOAN STORMS
September 11 is no less appalling today than it was then, on September 11. Our determination is no l... TONY BLAIR The numbers were larger than we anticipated.
BILL ERNEST They made the consensus numbers even after taking that charge, ... The stock has already been pummel...
BARBARA RYAN They made the consensus numbers even after taking that charge. The stock has already been pummeled i...
BARBARA RYAN With survivor benefits, it's based on the deceased spouse's work and earnings, not yours.
KURT CZARNOWSKI Despite the challenging economic environment for technology companies, we posted healthy revenue gro...
JOAN HOOPER With 2001 revenue growth rates now expected to be in a range of 9 to 18 percent and earnings per sha...
MARK ROWEN It has been hammered on an earnings warnings very recently, but their long-term earnings are very mu...
CISCO SYSTEMS One more hit of crack cocaine on these earnings. I felt we were so addicted to our quarterly earning...
KENNETH RICE A stock that's seen a lot of bad news is First Union, ... Here is a great stock with depressed earni...
DAVID OTTO We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO Stock markets can still rise. Earnings are still growing. Investors shouldn't be worried about sligh...
GUENTHER GERSTENBERGER
We have seen some really big winners this week. Today was no different. With one-day gains on the ea... WILLIAM MCKINLEY The consensus is looking for 13 percent earnings growth in Q4, which is a pretty high hurdle. Earnin...
BRIAN GENDREAU We do deserve, and should be at, a higher rating than we currently are,
MARK SWARTZ I do see the possibility of the markets having a 200 or 300 point drop over the next 3 to 4 weeks if...
RAO CHALASANI
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