US Report: Compaq Beats The Street In Q2
News Compaq shares gained 1 1/16 to 34 3/4 after the company hurdled Wall Street estimates with second quarter operating earnings of $32m (£19.5m), or 2 cents a share, on sales of $5.8bn (£3.5bn). The second quarter sales gains were attributed to...
[July 15, 1998, 14:36]
The Day Ahead: Oracle's Applications Growth Leaves Wall Street Grumpy
News The second quarter will be "a spectacular applications quarter," he said. Oracle had analysts grumpy initially over the first quarter's disappointing applications software growth. Ellison said the sales cycle for the Oracle11i suite is long and the...
[September 15, 2000, 12:03]
Server Sales Forecast Cut
News The second quarter is shaping up to be another tough one for the server market, but relief may be in sight. IDC said unit sales will decline 14.5 percent from last year's second quarter, citing a slower-than-expected recovery in sales to large...
[June 14, 2002, 15:31]
EMachines Issues Profit Warning As Demand Sinks
News The company, which offers low-priced computer systems, said it will report second quarter loss of 30 cents a share to 33 cents a share, excluding charges. The second quarter ending 1 July was expected to be seasonally slow, but eMachines said PC...
[June 19, 2000, 14:47]
Disk Storage Faces Gloomier Outlook
News Sales of a key kind of data storage hardware rose 5.1 percent in the second quarter, but the outlook for the product category is less rosy, according to a new report from research firm Gartner. Gartner on Thursday said sales of external, controller...
[September 3, 2004, 11:45]
US Report: Intel Falls Short In Q2
News In the second quarter a year ago, Intel reported earnings of 92 cents a share. For the third quarter, Intel officials were predicting flat revenue, but sales growth in the second half, which is seasonally strong.
[July 15, 1998, 9:00]
Infogrames Reports Strong Financials
News Infogrames has announced that its net income for the second quarter of the 2001 fiscal year increased to $16.5m (£11m), or $0.24 per share, compared with a net loss of $118.0m, or $7.46 per share, for the same period last year.
[February 7, 2001, 11:39]
AMD Falls Victim To Sars
News In particular, the decline in personal computer and handset sell-through in China and other Asian markets, largely related to the Sars epidemic, significantly affected AMD's sales in the second quarter.
[June 25, 2003, 8:05]
Cisco May Gain From Old Inventory
News When Cisco Systems reports its second-quarter results on Wednesday, one thing to watch for is whether it will boost the bottom line by bringing inventory back from the dead. Merrill Lynch analyst Samuel Wilson said he expects the company's...
[February 1, 2002, 13:16]
InfoSpace Digs Deep To Acquire Go2Net
News By the way, InfoSpace posted a second-quarter loss of $3.3m, or one cent a share, on sales of $24.6m. InfoSpace easily topped analysts' estimates in its second quarter Wednesday and announced it will pay a hefty premium to acquire Internet content...
[July 27, 2000, 9:21]
Oracle Tops Estimates In Second Quarter
News Oracle reported better-than-expected second-quarter results, Thursday, on the strength of database and business software sales. The database giant earned a second-quarter profit of $623m, or 11 cents a share, compared to last year's second-quarter...
[December 15, 2000, 11:14]
The Day Ahead: Dell Hustling To Prove Critics Wrong
News Commentary: Analysts weren't impressed with Dell's second-quarter sales last month and questioned how the PC maker was going to keep its promise of 30 percent revenue growth this year. Dell vice chairman Kevin Rollins said fears the company had in...
[September 21, 2000, 12:20]
HP Grabs European Handheld Crown From Palm
News HP lost ground in the second quarter, but its shipments increased 87 percent in the third quarter, to 201,060 units, compared with the same period a year ago. Shipments in the United States continued a downward trend in the second quarter, dipping...
[October 22, 2003, 9:30]
AMD: Second-quarter Earnings To Plunge
News Chipmaker AMD announced Thursday that earnings and sales for the second quarter of 2001 will fall far below estimates. The company said in a statement that second-quarter net income would be 3 cents to 5 cents a share.
[July 6, 2001, 8:58]
NetSuite, Zoho See Rising Uptake Of Hosted Apps
News NetSuite reported second-quarter 2008 revenue of $36.6m (£18.7m), up 43 percent from the same period in 2007. Net loss per Gaap (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) was down to $3.1m in the quarter, compared with $9.6m in the second quarter...
[August 6, 2008, 8:37]
UK Chipset Designer Predicts Larger Losses
News Arc International, the UK chipset designer, brought more bad news to the technology sector on Friday when it warned that its losses for the second quarter of 2001 would be 50 percent worse than expected.
[July 6, 2001, 16:48]
US Report: Apple Wows 'em In Q2
News The company posted a second fiscal quarter profit of $55m (£32.7m), or 38 cents per share, well above analysts' predictions of $21m (£12.5m). Speaking to analysts following the announcement of the company's second-quarter earnings, Anderson blamed...
[April 16, 1998, 8:27]
US Report: Iomega Hits Rock Bottom
News Iomega on Thursday said it will take $5m (£3m) to $10m (£6m) in special charges in its second quarter and likely report a loss for the fiscal year. Company officials said it expects second quarter sales to be roughly in line with first quarter 1998...
[June 19, 1998, 9:28]
AMD Braces For Hefty Loss
News Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices warned that revenue for the second quarter would be 22 percent to 24 percent lower than anticipated, which will lead to a substantial operating loss. The second-quarter loss marks the fourth in a row for AMD.
[June 19, 2002, 11:54]
HP Beats Forecasts, But Will Cut Jobs
News The technology giant did not give specific guidance for the current quarter, but said it was comfortable with consensus estimates that it would have revenue of $36.4bn and per share earnings of 62 cents, excluding charges, in the second half of...
[May 21, 2003, 9:58]

