Earnings Preview

A sampling of companies expected to report Monday, 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. Conoco COC $0.60 $0.13 +362% Corning GLW 0.55 0.36 +53 Bemis BMS 0.46 0.35 +31 Grace (W.R.) GRA 0.27 0.21 +29 Hawthorne Financial HTHR 0.49 0.38 +29 PFF Bancorp PFFB 0.50 0.39 +28 Lexmark Holdings LXK 0.58 0.48 +21 Sealed Air SEE 0.48 0.40 +20 Northrop Grumman NOC 1.79 1.50 +19 Hershey Foods HSY 0.44 0.37 +19 CVB Financial CVB 0.31 0.26 +19 WellPoint Health Networks WLP 1.22 1.04 +17 Tupperware TUP 0.36 0.31 +16 Merck MRK 0.62 0.54 +15 Marsh & McLennan MMC 1.18 1.03 +15 American Express AXP 1.42 1.26 +13 GTE GTE 0.83 0.74 +12 Wrigley WWY 0.67 0.60 +12 Quaker City Bancorp QCBC 0.49 0.45 +9 Air Products & Chemicals APD 0.57 0.53 +8 Arden Realty ARI 0.68 0.64 +6 Snap-On SNA 0.58 0.57 +2 Maxtor MXTR 0.15 0.17 -12 Castle & Cooke CCS 0.13 0.16 -19 Barrick Gold ABX 0.17 0.23 -26 CSX CSX 0.15 0.36 -58 Safeco SAFC 0.10 0.60 -83 Aurora BioSciences ABSC -0.08 -0.26 NM Global Crossing GBLX -0.40 0.00 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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