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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. Anadarko Petroleum APC 1.12 0.15 +647% Williams Cos. WMB 0.16 0.05 +220 Phillips Petroleum P 2.04 0.80 +155 JDS Uniphase JDSU 0.16 0.08 +100 CInergy CIN 0.51 0.33 +55 WorldCom WCOM 0.47 0.37 +27 American Intl Group AIG 0.61 0.53 +15 Jefferson-Pilot JP 1.07 0.93 +15 Electronic Data Systems EDS 0.58 0.51 +14 Donnelley DNY 0.76 0.67 +13 Alberto-Culver ACV 0.49 0.44 +11 B.F. Goodrich GR 0.82 0.74 +11 T. Rowe Price TROW 0.53 0.48 +10 Kellogg K 0.45 0.42 +7 Reebok International RBK 0.51 0.49 +4 CenturyTel CTL 0.42 0.45 -7 Dow Chemical DOW 0.44 0.48 -8 Ralston Purina RAL 0.27 0.36 -25 Nextel Communications NXTL -0.37 -0.55 -33 Lockheed Martin LMT 0.24 0.48 -50 Conseco CNC 0.23 0.73 -68 Louisiana Pacific LPX -0.20 0.76 -126

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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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