Earnings Preview

A sampling of companies expected to report quarterly earnings 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. Phillips Petroleum P $1.03 $0.07 +1371% Homestake Mining HM 0.02 0.01 +100 AES AES 0.75 0.39 +92 MCI WorldCom WCOM 0.43 0.24 +79 Adaptec ADPT 0.49 0.36 +36 Electronic Data Systems EDS 0.47 0.36 +31 Pinnacle Entertainment PNK 0.21 0.16 +31 Apria Healthcare AHG 0.23 0.18 +28 Allergan AGN 0.30 0.24 +25 Coastal CGP 0.77 0.62 +24 Young & Rubicam YNR 0.28 0.24 +17 American Intl. Group AIG 0.86 0.75 +15 Quantum QNTM 0.38 0.33 +15 PE Biosystems PEB 0.24 0.21 +14 Dow Chemical DOW 1.65 1.47 +12 Reliant Energy REI 0.38 0.34 +12 Clorox CLX 0.47 0.42 +12 Great Lakes Chemical GLK 0.59 0.53 +11 Aetna AET 1.12 1.01 +11 GTE GTE 0.82 0.74 +11 Alberto-Culver ACV 0.38 0.35 +9 Kellogg K 0.39 0.36 +8 Walt Disney DIS 0.14 0.13 +8 Florida Progress FPC 0.71 0.66 +8 National RV Holdings NVH 0.69 0.64 +8 Donnelley (R.R.) DNY 0.36 0.34 +6 Sempra Energy SRE 0.44 0.42 +5 Newell Rubbermaid NWL 0.28 0.27 +4 St. Paul Cos. SPC 0.66 0.64 +3 Centex CTX 1.13 1.10 +3 Realty Income O 0.62 0.60 +3 Printronix PTNX 0.42 0.42 0 Cinergy CIN 0.73 0.80 -9 GPU GPU 1.02 1.27 -20 21st Century Insurance TW 0.13 0.33 -61 Western Digital WDC -0.24 -0.68 -65 Union Pacific Resources UPR 0.24 -0.12 NM Anadarko Petroleum APC 0.32 -0.08 NM Apache APA 0.91 -0.04 NM Tenneco Packaging PTV 0.14 NA NA EToys ETYS -0.32 NA NA

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

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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