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April 14, 1999 12 AM PT

A sampling of companies expected to report today, ranked by year-over-year earnings-per-share (EPS) growth, compiled by First Call/Thomson Financial:

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Ticker Analysts’ Year-ago Predicted Company symbol estimated EPS quarter pct. chg. Charles Schwab SCH $0.33 $0.17 +94% Apple Computer AAPL 0.57 0.38 +50 SM&A; WINS 0.18 0.12 +50 Tellabs TLAB 0.49 0.37 +32 Pfizer PFE 0.62 0.49 +27 Jacobs Engineering JEC 0.61 0.51 +20 Superior Industries SUP 0.54 0.46 +17 Nationwide Health Prop. NHP 0.53 0.50 +6 Time Warner TWX -0.03 -0.13 NM Advanced Micro Devices AMD -0.73 -0.39 NM EarthLink ELNK -0.22 -0.28 NM

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

Year-over-year growth and percentage changes are based on earnings-per-share figures and may differ from percentage changes based on total profit.

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