This Week’s Earnings

Expeditors International (EXPD) will release its fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow morning. The current consensus estimate is for 51 cents a share. Last year, Expeditors earned 39 cents a share. This is a great stock, although it’s getting a bit rich for me.
Dell (DELL) will release its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday.
For the record, Dell originally said that its third-quarter earnings would come in at 39 to 41 cents a share, on sales of $14.1 to $14.5 billion. However, the results were 39 cents a share on sales of $13.9 billion. That was the “miss” that freaked everyone out.
For this quarter, Dell expects earnings of 40 to 42 cents a share on sales of $14.6 to $15 billion. Wall Street’s original forecast was for 42 cents on $15 billion.
If Dell earns 43 cents a share, I will never listen to another Wall Street analyst for the rest of my life.

Posted by on February 13th, 2006 at 2:47 pm


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