THE TIMES 100 : VIEW FROM THE STREET : Great Expectations

Companies ranked by analysts’ estimated earnings increase this year.

‘93 Estmtd 1993 1992 % Earnings Estimated Actual Rank Company Increase Earn/Share Earn/Share 1 3Com Corp. 600 1.05 .15 2 Great Western Financial 433 1.60 .30 3 Fluor Corp. 326 2.00 .47 4 Seagate Technology 253 3.25 .92 5 Times Mirror Co. 241 1.50 .44 6 National Health Labs 237 1.45 .43 7 Oracle Systems Corp. 114 .92 .43 8 Cisco Systems 89 1.25 .66 9 Unocal Corp. 87 1.40 .75 10 SynOptics Communications 76 3.50 1.99 11 Intel Corp. 72 8.55 4.97 12 Quantum Corp. 71 1.80 1.05 13 National Medical Enterp. 69 1.30 .77 14 Applied Materials 61 1.75 1.09 15 Wells Fargo & Co. 58 7.00 4.44 16 Transamerica Corp. 54 4.35 2.83 17 Autodesk Inc. 50 2.64 1.76 18 Sybase Inc. 46 1.40 .96 19 First Interstate Bancorp 39 4.50 3.23 20 Clorox Co. 38 3.00 2.17

Rank Analysts 1 22 2 16 3 17 4 16 5 20 6 16 7 23 8 23 9 33 10 23 11 35 12 16 13 21 14 15 15 28 16 17 17 21 18 15 19 27 20 17

Source: STAR Services.