Earnings Watch
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:
Reporting Monday
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Analysts’ Pct. above/ 1997 Ticker estimated Actual below 4th-qtr. Company symbol EPS EPS estimate EPS Tellabs TLAB $0.59 $0.62 +5% $0.42 Warner-Lambert WLA 0.40 0.40 0 0.28 Dana DCN 0.89 0.89 0 0.71 American Express AXP 1.16 1.16 0 1.04 Procter & Gamble PG 0.78 0.78 0 0.71 Ashland ASH 0.54 0.62 +15 0.60 Corning GLW 0.37 0.40 +8 0.39 Rohm & Haas ROH 0.41 0.44 +7 0.43 Ralston Purina RAL 0.44 0.41 -7 0.42 3M MMM 0.80 0.86 +8 0.89 Safeco SAFC 0.76 0.55 -28 0.78 Halliburton HAL 0.20 0.20 0 0.58 Union Carbide UK 0.18 0.18 0 0.92
Year- over-year Company % change Tellabs +48% Warner-Lambert +43 Dana +25 American Express +12 Procter & Gamble +10 Ashland +3 Corning +3 Rohm & Haas +2 Ralston Purina -2 3M -3 Safeco -29 Halliburton -66 Union Carbide -80
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Reporting Today
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Ticker Consensus Year-ago Predicted Company symbol EPS estimate quarter pct. chg. EMC EMC $0.46 $0.32 +44% Schering-Plough SGP 0.28 0.23 +22 Merck MRK 1.16 1.01 +15 Johnson & Johnson JNJ 0.50 0.45 +11 McDonald’s MCD 0.64 0.58 +10 Raytheon RTNB 1.08 0.98 +10 Black & Decker BDK 1.10 1.00 +10 Kimberly-Clark KMB 0.67 0.62 +8 Transamerica TA 0.97 0.98 -1 Northern Telecom NT 0.70 0.74 -5 Tupperware TUP 0.59 0.76 -22 Coca-Cola KO 0.24 0.33 -27 Texaco TX 0.25 0.84 -70 Tenneco TEN 0.08 0.46 -83 Phillips Petroleum P 0.00 0.77 -100 Occidental Petroleum OXY -0.13 0.36 NM Case CSE -1.27 1.56 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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