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Oracle Shatters 3Q Forecasts
News First Call consensus expected the database software developer to earn 13 cents (8p) a share in the quarter. We obviously had a spectacular quarter," chief financial officer, Jeff Henley, told analysts during a Tuesday afternoon conference call.
[March 15, 2000, 9:45]
The Day Ahead: Mulling Amazon's Sales, VerticalNet Questions
News But Wall Street had estimated sales of $1.05bn, according to earnings tracking firm First Call. First Call is projecting a loss of 26 cents a share. Amazon was expected to put up fourth quarter sales of $1.5bn or so in 2001, according to First Call.
[January 9, 2001, 13:27]
More Job Cuts At HP
News Analysts expected the number two personal computer maker to earn 46 cents per share, according to a survey by Thomson First Call. As we discussed then, we had to operationalise [sic] the model, and 14,500 moved to 15,300," Hurd said during a...
[November 18, 2005, 8:40]
Sun: MySQL Buy 'most Important In Software History'
News Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief executive, said in a conference call on Tuesday that the £1bn acquisition "completed our capability to deliver a holistic, secure, open-source platform for networks", providing the last, key piece in a software stack...
[February 27, 2008, 10:30]
Gateway Misses Estimates As Sales Sag
News All in all, we've held our own.We've lost a little ground internationally, but we've made up for it with growth in our portables, as well as the education and small-business markets," chief executive Ted Waitt said in a conference call with...
[July 20, 2001, 9:30]
The Day Ahead: Oracle's Applications Growth Leaves Wall Street Grumpy
News In fact, Ellison dropped the word "spectacular" at least six times on an analyst conference call. Oracle CFO Jeff Henley acknowledged that applications sales growth is "the hardest one to call. On a conference call, officials said Adobe can use...
[September 15, 2000, 12:03]
Apple Tops Q2 Estimates, Sets Rare Stock Split
News First Call consensus expected Apple to earn 81 cents a share in the quarter. On a conference call with analysts, Apple Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson said the company's product mix boosted average revenue per system to $1,820 in the quarter...
[April 20, 2000, 9:45]
HP Sees Rise In Profit And Revenue
News It was a good start to the year with another solid set of results," chief executive Mark Hurd said in a conference call with reporters, pointing to improved profit margins and broad revenue growth. Factoring out some one-time charges, the company...
[February 21, 2007, 7:44]
Microsoft Earnings Unscathed By Vista Delays
News Analysts had been looking for earnings of 23 cents per share on revenue of $12.08bn, according to First Call. Analysts were expecting 46 cents per share in earnings on revenue of $13.98bn, according to First Call.
[January 26, 2007, 8:47]
Are New Power Macs On The Way?
News And several analysts who were on Apple's earnings conference call on Wednesday said that implicit in Apple's guidance for the current quarter was an improvement in Power Mac sales, which almost certainly means faster machines are on the way.
[January 21, 2002, 12:16]
Oracle Tops Estimates In Second Quarter
News Wall Street had predicted earnings of 10 cents a share, according to a poll of analysts by First Call/Thomson Financial. On a conference call with analysts, CFO Jeff Henley said the company isn't seeing a slowdown in its business.
[December 15, 2000, 11:14]
Oracle Revs Up To Go Speeding Into Q4
News A survey of analysts by First Call expected the database software developer to earn 25 cents a share in the quarter. On a conference call with analysts, chief financial officer Jeff Henley called the first quarter deal pipeline "stunning".
[June 21, 2000, 9:05]
PC Business Drags Down Dell's Earnings
News The company does not plan to hold a conference call related to its earnings until the investigation into its accounting practices is completed, Pearson said. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had originally been expecting revenue of $15.3bn...
[March 2, 2007, 8:21]
US Report: Apple Wows 'em In Q2
News First Call consensus expected the PC maker to report a profit of $0.16 per share in the quarter. So-called "whisper" numbers making their way through Wall Street before the earnings announcement suggested Apple would make a mockery of the First...
[April 16, 1998, 8:27]
More IT Firms Look Overseas To Cut Costs
News Forrester researchers predict that other services--including call center services and back-office accounting -- will follow IT operations' move abroad. Besides using offshore facilities for application management, companies are adopting an overseas...
[February 21, 2003, 9:56]
Apple Beats Targets But Profits Fall
News Analysts had been expecting a profit of 3 cents a share, with revenue of $1.5bn, according to First Call. Buoyed by its strongest sales in almost three years, Apple Computer on Wednesday reported third-quarter results that exceeded expectations...
[July 17, 2003, 10:51]
IBM Beats Street In Q2 But Asia Takes Its Toll
News First Call consensus expected IBM to earn $1.49 a share in the quarter. IBM beat Wall Street estimates by a penny a share in its second quarter Monday, returning a profit of $1.5bn (£0.91bn), or $1.50 a share, on sales of $18.8bn (£11.46bn).
[July 21, 1998, 11:43]
The Day Ahead: Compaq Wins Credibility Back, Now Must Grow
News Clearly we have some work to do, but momentum is building for a strong second half," he said on an analyst conference call. It took a year, but Compaq chief exec Michael Capellas has won the company's credibility back by doing the basics.
[July 26, 2000, 12:11]
SAP Chief Talks Up A1S For 'volume' Business
News Notably, he didn't go as far as to call the new play "on-demand software" or "software as a service" (SaaS), an area where upstarts such as NetSuite, RightNow and Salesforce.com have prospered and where even the likes of older rivals such as...
[March 27, 2007, 10:25]
Dell Q4 Earnings In Line With Lowered Estimates
News First Call consensus lowered its profit estimate from 21 cents (13p) a share to 15 cents (9p) last month after Dell warned that its Q4 earnings would fall short of expectations. Dell Computer tiptoed past analysts' reduced estimates in its fourth...
[February 14, 2000, 16:30]
