California Earnings

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Oct. 28, 1998 12 AM PT

A sampling 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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Con- % above/ 1997 Year- Ticker sensus Actual below 3rd-qtr. over-year Company symbol EPS EPS est. EPS % growth Homestake Mining HM --$0.05 --$0.08 NM* --$0.05 +60% Guitar Center GTRC 0.15 0.15 0% 0.11 +36 McKesson MCK 0.50 0.52 +4 0.40 +30 Amgen AMGN 0.79 0.83 +5 0.66 +26 Pimco Advisors PA 0.40 0.39 --3 0.40 --3 Unocal UCL 0.06 0.02 --67 0.38 --95

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Reporting Today

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Ticker Consensus Year-ago Predicted Company symbol EPS estimate quarter pct. chg. Chiron CHIR $0.14 $0.10 +40% Ingram Micro IM 0.39 0.31 +26 SafeSkin SFSK 0.25 0.20 +25 MTI Technology MTIC 0.14 0.14 0 G & L Realty GLR 0.42 0.45 --7 Smart & Final SMF 0.22 0.30 --27

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* NM = not meaningful. A loss in any period makes percentage change not calculable.

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