Earnings Reports

A sampling of companies reporting quarterly earnings Tuesday, ranked by year-over-year earnings-per-share (EPS) growth, compiled by First Call/Thomson Financial:

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Analysts’ Pct. above/ 1998 Ticker estimated Actual below 1st-qtr. Company symbol EPS EPS estimate EPS Intel INTC $0.55 $0.57 +4% $0.41 MBNA KRB 0.22 0.22 0 0.18 Motorola MOT 0.24 0.28 +17 0.23 King World KWP 0.53 0.53 0 0.44 Productions MGIC Investment MTG 0.88 0.90 +2 0.75 Weyerhaeuser WY 0.36 0.51 +42 0.43 Tribune TRB 0.51 0.53 +4 0.46 AlliedSignal ALD 0.59 0.59 0 0.52 Fannie Mae FNM 0.87 0.88 +1 0.78 Westamerica Bancorp WABC 0.46 0.46 0 0.42 SLM Holding SLM 0.71 0.69 -3 0.80 International Paper IP 0.05 0.14 +180 0.25 PairGain Technologies PAIR 0.07 0.06 -14 0.16 Seagate Technology SEG 0.46 0.49 +7 -0.10

Year- over-year Company % change Intel +39% MBNA +22 Motorola +21 King World +20 Productions MGIC Investment +20 Weyerhaeuser +19 Tribune +15 AlliedSignal +13 Fannie Mae +13 Westamerica Bancorp +10 SLM Holding -14 International Paper -44 PairGain Technologies -63 Seagate Technology 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-sharefigures and may differ from percentage changes based on total profit.

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