California Earnings

A summary of companies reporting quarterly earnings Tuesday, ranked by year-over-year growth, and companies due to report today, ranked by analysts’ forecast change in earnings per share (EPS) from the year-ago quarter, compiled by First Call:

Reporting Tuesday

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Pct. above/ 1997 Ticker Consensus Actual below 3rd-qtr. Company symbol EPS EPS estimate EPS Jeffries Group JEF $0.53 $0.66 +25% $0.64 Intel INTC 0.80 0.89 +11 0.88

Year- over-year Company % growth Jeffries Group +3% Intel 0

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Reporting Today

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Ticker Consensus Year-ago Predicted Company symbol EPS estimate quarter pct. chg. Xylan XYLN $0.22 $0.10 +120% Seagate Technology SEG 0.17 0.08 +113 Applied Micro Circuit AMCC 0.18 0.10 +80 Ahmanson (H.F.) AHM 1.10 0.84 +31 GBC Bancorp GBCB 0.51 0.43 +19 BankAmerica BAC 0.90 1.08 --17 Raychem RYC 0.47 0.70 --33 Pharmaprint PPRT 0.03 NA NA* Apple Computer AAPL 0.49 --0.19 NP** SeraCare SRK 0.06 --0.01 NP**

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* Not available ** Negative to positive