California Earnings

L.A. Times Archives

Jan. 26, 1999 12 AM PT

A sampling of companies reporting quarterly earnings Monday, and expected to report today, ranked by year-over-year earnings-per-share (EPS) growth, compiled by First Call:

California Companies Reporting Monday

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Analysts’ % above/ 1997 Ticker est Actual below 4th-qtr. Company symbol EPS EPS est. EPS McKesson HBOC MCK $0.56 $0.56 0% $0.40 Chevron CHV 0.48 0.76 +58 1.22 Atlantic Richfield ARC 0.04 0.22 +450 1.23 Beckman Inst. BEC 0.98 1.01 +3 -0.07

Yr- over-yr Company % change McKesson HBOC +40% Chevron -38 Atlantic Richfield -82 Beckman Inst. NM

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Reporting Today

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Ticker Consensus Year-ago Predicted Company symbol EPS estimate quarter pct. chg. Computer Science CSC $0.54 $0.44 +23% Imperial Bancorp IMP 0.38 0.52 -27 Occidental Petroleum OXY -0.13 0.36 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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