Great Expectations: Northern California
Companies with Northern California headquarters ranked by analysts’ mean estimates of annualized growth in earnings per share over the next three to five years. At least four analysts must cover a company for it to be listed.
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Proj. Yrs. of Last No. of annlzd. positive qrtly. anal- Name Ticker EPS gr. EPS EPS ysts 1 Penederm DERM 100% 0 --$0.58 4 2 Yahoo YHOO 68 0 0.08 17 3 Network Appliance NTAP 60 2 0.17 5 4 Advanced Fibre Communic. AFCI 54 3 0.15 11 5 BroadVision BVSN 50 0 --0.05 5 6 Concentric Network CNCX 50 0 --0.97 4 7 Cygnus CYGN 50 0 --0.27 5 8 Documentum DCTM 50 3 0.18 6 9 Excite XCIT 50 0 --0.34 10 10 Heartport HPRT 50 0 --0.53 12 11 Infoseek SEEK 50 0 --0.16 7 12 Matrix Pharmaceutical MATX 50 0 --0.29 4 13 Onsale ONSL 50 0 --0.09 9 14 Pacific Gateway Exchange PGEX 50 4 0.22 10 15 Sequus Pharmaceuticals SEQU 50 0 --0.12 5 16 Vantive VNTV 50 0 0.19 13 17 Veritas Software VRTS 50 5 0.40 9 18 Versant Object Tech VSNT 50 1 --0.23 4 19 PeopleSoft PSFT 49 8 0.31 19 20 Siebel Systems SEBL 49 0 --0.22 8 21 Aspect Development ASDV 48 0 0.14 7 22 Identix IDX 48 1 0.02 5 23 Intl. Network Services INSS 48 3 0.11 8 24 Arbor Software ARSW 47 3 --0.02 10 25 CNet CNWK 45 0 --0.76 8 26 Legato Systems LGTO 45 5 0.27 6 27 Rambus RMBS 45 1 0.07 5 28 USWeb USWB 45 0 --0.91 4 29 E-Trade Group EGRP 44 1 0.15 10 30 Cylink CYLK 42 0 --2.37 7 31 Arterial Vascular Eng. AVEI 41 3 0.64 15 32 ArthroCare ARTC 40 0 --0.18 5 33 Edify EDFY 40 1 0.12 5 34 Faroudja FDJA 40 4 0.03 4 35 Forte Software FRTE 40 1 --0.32 4 36 Perclose PERC 40 0 --0.38 4 37 Prism Solutions PRZM 40 0 --0.26 4 38 Proxim PROX 40 4 --0.32 7 39 Ultratech Stepper UTEK 40 7 0.09 4 40 Uniphase UNPH 40 0 0.02 7 41 Zoran ZRAN 40 2 0.15 4 42 Sangstat Medical SANG 38 0 --0.36 5 43 Network Associates NETA 38 0 --1.38 9 44 Remedy RMDY 38 6 0.29 8 45 Secure Computing SCUR 38 0 0.02 5 46 Wind River Systems WIND 36 9 --0.28 5 47 Avant AVNT 35 5 0.34 4 48 CKS Group CKSG 35 7 0.07 6 49 DSP Communications DSP 35 2 0.27 8 50 Objective Sys. Integrator OSII 35 0 --0.12 6 51 SDL SDLI 35 0 0.13 4 52 P-Com PCMS 34 3 --0.4 11 53 Scopus Technology SCOP 34 6 --0.04 7 54 CardioThoracic Systems CTSI 33 0 --0.51 8 55 Neomagic NMGC 33 0 0.25 5 56 Netscape Communications NSCP 33 0 --1.01 13 57 Incyte Pharmaceuticals INCY 32 1 0.12 7 58 Advent Software ADVS 32 1 0.15 5 59 Pinnacle Systems PCLE 32 0 0.31 4 60 QuadraMed QMDC 32 0 --3.71 6 61 Cisco Systems CSCO 32 11 0.45 33 62 Molecular Devices MDCC 31 5 0.15 4 63 AirTouch Communications ATI 31 5 0.19 28 64 3Dfx Interactive TDFX 30 0 0.50 5 65 Central Garden & Pet CENT 30 7 --0.02 6 66 Clarify CLFY 30 3 0.05 5 67 CMC Industries CMCI 30 8 0.18 6 68 EndoSonics ESON 30 0 --0.07 6 69 Etec Systems ETEC 30 4 0.40 9 70 Geoworks GWRX 30 0 --0.16 4 71 Intl. Microcomputer Soft. IMSI 30 2 0.22 6 72 Level One Communications LEVL 30 6 0.26 8 73 North Face, The TNFI 30 5 0.19 9 74 Premisys Communications PRMS 30 4 0.07 5 75 QuickResponse Services QRSI 30 5 0.29 10
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INSIDE THE NUMBERS
Great Expectations--These lists rank companies by projected annualized earning per share growth rate over the next three to five years. First Call Corp. gathers this data by surveying analysts. These lists how only companies that have at least four analysts tracking them. The figures, therefore, represent a mean of all the opinions.
