California Earnings Preview

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Oct. 26, 2000 12 AM PT

A sampling of companies expected to report today, ranked by year-over-year earnings-per-share (EPS) growth, compiled by First Call/Thomson Financial.

Expected Today

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Ticker Analysts’ Year-ago Predicted Company symbol estimated EPS quarter pct. chg. Ingram Micro IM 0.25 0.12 +108% Apria Healthcare AHG 0.26 0.20 +30 Vet Centers of America VCAI 0.31 0.24 +29 Cheesecake Factory CAKE 0.23 0.18 +28 IHOP IHP 0.48 0.42 +14 Amgen AMGN 0.28 0.25 +12 Sempra Energy SRE 0.48 0.45 +7 Oakley O 0.63 0.61 +3 21st Century Insurance TW 0.07 0.21 -67 Unova UNA -0.24 0.17 -241 Inktomi INKT 0.05 -0.05 NM Western Digital WDC -0.32 -1.32 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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