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JANET ROBINSON We can't rule out double-digit retail sales growth in the final quarter.
DANIEL CHAN This is really good for everyone. With the double-digit price increase we had last year, at some poi...
GENE COLLINS The best growth at a reasonable price is to be found in the emerging markets, where you have 15% ear...
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DANIEL VASELLA We expect this trend to continue and to accelerate in 2006 and 2007.
MICHAEL FOWLER We expect growth from most of our core businesses (in 2006/2007). Earnings from the leisure sector w...
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ALAN LACY We closed 100 software license deals in fourth quarter including three deals in excess of $1 million...
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HOWARD SILVERBLATT We are very pleased with our double-digit retail and wholesale sales growth and continuing strong ma...
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ALFRED CHUANG We are confident of delivering in 2006 another year of dynamic growth with record sales and earnings...
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GRACE NG We are enjoying strong, consistent car sales and good growth in our light-truck segments. And we exp...
DICK COLLIVER broad-based, with nearly every consumer and commercial business line achieving double-digit profit g...
HOWARD ATKINS We think fundamentals are okay on the Strip. Growth is decelerating, but it was healthy to begin wit...
JOE GREFF We expect this trend to continue during 2006 as house prices rise at a slower pace than earnings, th...
MARTIN ELLIS The first two quarters of last year were OK but not stellar. If we still have double digit increases...
KEN PERKINS Through 2001 profit gains are expected to continue slowing, but get back to more sustainable levels....
JOE COOPER It had been debated for some time whether 2005 or 2006 would be the bottom year in the downside of t...
GARY GRANDBOIS We achieved strong third-quarter growth in cereal volume in the United States and Latin America and ...
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BILL HANKOWSKY While December sales were disappointing, with below-plan performance at all three of our divisions, ...
BOB ULRICH We expect to realize cost savings beginning in 2006 from the consolidation of headquarters functions...
BUD BERGREN (I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate....
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CHARLES DAVIDSON This year we expect 15% of our revenues to come from outside of Brazil, whereas in 2006 we expect th...
AILTON NASCIMENTO We expect gold to remain very volatile, trading erratically from time to time and to break over $600...
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ANNE M. MULCAHY All in all, the results were solid, ... you have to look at data, wireless and international growth....
BLAKE BATH We are pleased by the record results we achieved in the first quarter of fiscal 2006. Our revenues g...
DOUGLAS G. BERGERON It's strong across the board. We're seeing double-digit growth -- that's pretty dramatic -- and stro...
DIANE GLOSSMAN We now expect sales and earnings in the fiscal 2006 third quarter, which ends April 2, 2006, to appr...
CRAIG LABARGE We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate thr...
BILL WINTERS I don't expect zero earnings growth next year, but I do expect slower growth.
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JONATHAN MILLER PCs have a lifespan and energy that we keep thinking is going to weaken, but it doesn't. We are stil...
GARY GRANDBOIS The market still likes exciting stories, and currently Silicon Labs is one of the exciting stories. ...
DAVID WU Without [revenue growth from its] power systems [unit], there would have been no growth, and the que...
EDWARD JONES Honeywell has delivered strong cash flow and its 18th consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings p...
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JAY SAMIT We expect year over year growth in Latin America in 2006 to be in the high single digits.
CAROLINA MILANESI We are pleased with the increasing pace of revenue growth throughout this fiscal year fueled by stro...
CHRIS LIDDELL We continue look for opportunities to invest with ownership groups when appropriate and expect to fo...
MICHAEL MARSHALL The group is exceptionally well positioned for future growth in 2006 with a strong order book and go...
CHRIS MOORE We delivered another strong performance in the first three months of 2006 as our average daily volum...
DAVID KRELL It's become the sterling growth stock in the large-cap beverage area, ... It has volume growth. It h...
CAROLINE LEVY Unfortunately, earnings growth expectations are still too high. We continue to learn about that.
MARSHALL ACUFF 2005 was a year of growth and improved financial performance for our company. 2006 will be a year in...
MARINER KEMPER The overall momentum in construction remains solid. We expect this pattern to continue, with public ...
BRIAN BETHUNE Our earnings growth is especially gratifying in this seasonally low-revenue quarter, when we continu...
ALAN HASSENFELD We will continue to drive for at least 10 to 12 percent annual earnings growth.
CHARLES O. HOLLIDAY The company will need to articulate the sustainability of a double-digit growth model, and when it e...
ARYEH BOURKOFF We expect strong fourth-quarter results but foresee abating organic growth and falling margins in 20...
GREGER JOHANSSON It was always going to be touch and go whether they made double digit growth...It's quite a psycholo...
MICHAEL KING In the 2006 to 2010 timeframe, the business plan calls for earnings per share growth of approximatel...
BARRY PERRY We expect Amazon, eBay and Expedia to continue to invest in technology and content in 2006 -- which ...
JUSTIN POST Time Warner Cable should again experience a strong growth quarter. Cable subscriber net additions we...
KATHY STYPONIAS I am confident that we can execute our plans successfully and achieve the objective of about £2bn r...
JOHN PLUTHERO We expect strong growth to continue through acquisitions and tendering opportunities.
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL It was good to see the double-digit sales growth and the strong (profit) margin expansion. It provid...
ANTHONY CHUKUMBA
WILLIAM JOHNSON Operation Overdrive contributed to our double-digit earnings growth in every quarter of this fiscal ...
BRUCE ROHDE We expect the Windows Vista release, along with [the] strong lineup of other product releases, to ac...
YUN KIM Seven of our ten units had double-digit earnings growth and an eighth had record earnings.
MARC SHAPIRO We expect services revenue growth to accelerate throughout 2006 to achieve mid-single digit revenue ...
MARK LOUGHRIDGE We continue to deliver on the promise we made when we began our turnaround in 1997 of achieving annu...
FRED HASSAN Wachovia faces a difficult dilemma in seeking growth in 2006. It's coming off a really outstanding y...
TONY PLATH That will change in the back half of 2006. For 2006, we're not going to see double-digit growth, but...
BRAD BRADSHAW We would expect to be ahead of it, and would like to target double-digit growth in sales.
ANDRE PARKER We expect our results for the remainder of the year to be in line with the earnings per share range ...
MIKE WRIGHT We have delivered on our promise of achieving a turnaround in 1998 and double-digit earnings growth ...
FRED HASSAN We continue to benefit from very strong double-digit advertising growth at our digital operations, p...
JANET ROBINSON Both 2005 and 2006 will represent an extended two-year period of moderate growth before the market r...
GARY GRANDBOIS Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-di...
JOSEF ACKERMANN
The food and liquor business is expected to deliver double-digit earnings growth for fiscal 2005 in ... JOHN FLETCHER We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excit...
JEFFREY IMMELT That is a phenomenal return on your investment dollars, and I expect 2006 to be another strong year ...
LYNDON HOLDEMAN Despite a volatile environment, our fundamentals remain very strong, as we achieved double-digit ear...
JEFF IMMELT We continue to be pleased with our asset/liability management performance which, in a challenging in...
AUBREY PATTERSON We extended our track record for double-digit earnings growth to a fourth consecutive year even whil...
IVAN SEIDENBERG Assuming markets behave reasonably well in 2006, I would expect there is no reason we couldn't grow ...
LES OWEN When all is said and done, the fact of the matter is we will have double-digit earnings growth for t...
ELIZABETH MACKAY Everybody expects HSBC to report growth in earnings, but whether it is a single or double-digit incr...
KITTY CHAN We delivered a solid financial performance in fiscal 2006, growing total revenues 32 percent, which ...
ELIE ANTOUN Most of our businesses performed exceptionally well in spite of higher raw material costs and weak E...
CHARLES HOLLIDAY JR Most of our businesses performed exceptionally well in spite of higher raw material costs and weak E...
CHARLES HOLLIDAY We continue to benefit from very strong double-digit advertising growth at our digital operations, p...
JANET ROBINSON We can't rule out double-digit retail sales growth in the final quarter.
DANIEL CHAN This is really good for everyone. With the double-digit price increase we had last year, at some poi...
GENE COLLINS The best growth at a reasonable price is to be found in the emerging markets, where you have 15% ear...
ALEXANDER YOUNG For guidance it's not so bad. They are looking for low double-digit percentage growth in EBITDA. We ...
ANTHONY DICLEMENTE Market growth in 2006 will slow down somewhat. I expect that we will be able to continue to gain mar...
DANIEL VASELLA We expect this trend to continue and to accelerate in 2006 and 2007.
MICHAEL FOWLER We expect growth from most of our core businesses (in 2006/2007). Earnings from the leisure sector w...
KRISHAN BALENDRA Given the slowing economic environment, 2001 will be a challenging year, particularly in the first h...
ALAN LACY We closed 100 software license deals in fourth quarter including three deals in excess of $1 million...
HAMISH BREWER Oil prices are going nowhere but up and so we believe that earnings are going to go south. It does c...
HOWARD SILVERBLATT We are very pleased with our double-digit retail and wholesale sales growth and continuing strong ma...
ROGER FARAH For the third consecutive quarter, our year-over-year license revenue growth rate accelerated. We be...
ALFRED CHUANG We are confident of delivering in 2006 another year of dynamic growth with record sales and earnings...
DANIEL VASELLA Chinese economic growth remains solid and steady, and we continue to expect mildly slower but still ...
GRACE NG We are enjoying strong, consistent car sales and good growth in our light-truck segments. And we exp...
DICK COLLIVER broad-based, with nearly every consumer and commercial business line achieving double-digit profit g...
HOWARD ATKINS We think fundamentals are okay on the Strip. Growth is decelerating, but it was healthy to begin wit...
JOE GREFF We expect this trend to continue during 2006 as house prices rise at a slower pace than earnings, th...
MARTIN ELLIS The first two quarters of last year were OK but not stellar. If we still have double digit increases...
KEN PERKINS Through 2001 profit gains are expected to continue slowing, but get back to more sustainable levels....
JOE COOPER It had been debated for some time whether 2005 or 2006 would be the bottom year in the downside of t...
GARY GRANDBOIS We achieved strong third-quarter growth in cereal volume in the United States and Latin America and ...
ARNOLD G. LANGBO These are good growth stocks and we think the earnings are going to continue to keep growing.
DON HODGES We expect earnings to improve sequentially in 2006 predicated on higher copper and zinc price realiz...
TONY LESIAK We believe investors are too focused on the relative rate of change instead of respecting and admiri...
BRIAN BELSKI There have been a few major disappointments, but by and large, earnings are coming in very strong. M...
BRIAN GENDREAU Prime Office Products is a great fit with Staples, as Staples Contract continues its double-digit sa...
OWEN DAVIS We now expect our 2006 sales activity to be nearly double previous projections.
BILL HANKOWSKY While December sales were disappointing, with below-plan performance at all three of our divisions, ...
BOB ULRICH We expect to realize cost savings beginning in 2006 from the consolidation of headquarters functions...
BUD BERGREN (I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate....
CHARLES LEMONIDES Equity market neutral managers had a good month with their growth and earnings revision factors the ...
CHARLES DAVIDSON This year we expect 15% of our revenues to come from outside of Brazil, whereas in 2006 we expect th...
AILTON NASCIMENTO We expect gold to remain very volatile, trading erratically from time to time and to break over $600...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI We expect continued growth in 2006 even though the market will be flattish. January is usually a ver...
ELLYN MCCOLGAN We expect that the group's strong business franchise and solid underwriting capability will underpin...
KATE THOMSON Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO
Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower ... ANNE M. MULCAHY All in all, the results were solid, ... you have to look at data, wireless and international growth....
BLAKE BATH We are pleased by the record results we achieved in the first quarter of fiscal 2006. Our revenues g...
DOUGLAS G. BERGERON It's strong across the board. We're seeing double-digit growth -- that's pretty dramatic -- and stro...
DIANE GLOSSMAN We now expect sales and earnings in the fiscal 2006 third quarter, which ends April 2, 2006, to appr...
CRAIG LABARGE We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate thr...
BILL WINTERS I don't expect zero earnings growth next year, but I do expect slower growth.
BARRY HYMAN
This is the second consecutive quarter where we've seen moderating appreciation. The market has appe... JONATHAN MILLER PCs have a lifespan and energy that we keep thinking is going to weaken, but it doesn't. We are stil...
GARY GRANDBOIS The market still likes exciting stories, and currently Silicon Labs is one of the exciting stories. ...
DAVID WU Without [revenue growth from its] power systems [unit], there would have been no growth, and the que...
EDWARD JONES Honeywell has delivered strong cash flow and its 18th consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings p...
MICHAEL BONSIGNORE During the past few years, earnings have done far better than what economic growth alone would have ...
FRANCOIS TRAHAN The 400 to 700 home reduction in our projected fiscal year 2006 delivery guidance should reduce our ...
JOEL RASSMAN
Social media and personalization are providing both brand advertisers and end-users with hyper-targe... JAY SAMIT We expect year over year growth in Latin America in 2006 to be in the high single digits.
CAROLINA MILANESI We are pleased with the increasing pace of revenue growth throughout this fiscal year fueled by stro...
CHRIS LIDDELL We continue look for opportunities to invest with ownership groups when appropriate and expect to fo...
MICHAEL MARSHALL The group is exceptionally well positioned for future growth in 2006 with a strong order book and go...
CHRIS MOORE We delivered another strong performance in the first three months of 2006 as our average daily volum...
DAVID KRELL It's become the sterling growth stock in the large-cap beverage area, ... It has volume growth. It h...
CAROLINE LEVY Unfortunately, earnings growth expectations are still too high. We continue to learn about that.
MARSHALL ACUFF 2005 was a year of growth and improved financial performance for our company. 2006 will be a year in...
MARINER KEMPER The overall momentum in construction remains solid. We expect this pattern to continue, with public ...
BRIAN BETHUNE Our earnings growth is especially gratifying in this seasonally low-revenue quarter, when we continu...
ALAN HASSENFELD We will continue to drive for at least 10 to 12 percent annual earnings growth.
CHARLES O. HOLLIDAY The company will need to articulate the sustainability of a double-digit growth model, and when it e...
ARYEH BOURKOFF We expect strong fourth-quarter results but foresee abating organic growth and falling margins in 20...
GREGER JOHANSSON It was always going to be touch and go whether they made double digit growth...It's quite a psycholo...
MICHAEL KING In the 2006 to 2010 timeframe, the business plan calls for earnings per share growth of approximatel...
BARRY PERRY We expect Amazon, eBay and Expedia to continue to invest in technology and content in 2006 -- which ...
JUSTIN POST Time Warner Cable should again experience a strong growth quarter. Cable subscriber net additions we...
KATHY STYPONIAS I am confident that we can execute our plans successfully and achieve the objective of about £2bn r...
JOHN PLUTHERO We expect strong growth to continue through acquisitions and tendering opportunities.
BOB DAVIES
Given that we are still in early 2006, the 2007 guidance is likely to be conservative with higher-th... JOSEPH CAMPBELL It was good to see the double-digit sales growth and the strong (profit) margin expansion. It provid...
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