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JEFF KRULL The fact that the final number is higher than the preliminary number shows that the American consume...
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TONY LESIAK My fees were close to $200,000, and they were reduced. The state should have settled this case.
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FRANCOIS TRAHAN My sense is that an earnings recovery is further away than expected and there is no immediate cataly...
ALAN ACKERMAN (The earnings) are less than we anticipated, however, shareholders were, at the end of the day, rewa...
CHARLES CERANKOSKY The magnitude of the surprise was bigger than most people were expecting, ... Earnings and revenue w...
TIM WOOLSTON The volume was slightly higher than we were expecting. And they're passing through costs.
ELI LUSTGARTEN The demand is higher at this point than people were expecting.
EVAN WILSON A year ago, average management fees were falling, but this turned around in 2005 with average manage...
LESLEY HARVEY Higher underwriting revenues, increased mergers and acquisitions fees, growth in trading and merchan...
D. MILLER Both companies did much better than we were expecting ? they really beat estimates.
DHARMO SOEJANTO The numbers look okay. The EPS (earnings per share) is slightly better than what people were expecti...
STUART GORDON It was an extremely confusing quarter. It looks like their tax rate was lower than expected, so I th...
BILL LEACH Materially higher than expected revenue growth and better than expected cost side performance drove ...
EDWARD WOLFE Unlike actively managed funds, there is no way that a fund manager can improve the gross asset perfo...
GEOFF MILLER The slowdown in UK GDP growth is mainly being driven by sharply lower growth in household consumptio...
DAVID KERN I think we expect earnings in general to be better than expected. Two or three companies will beat e...
ED KEON It is certainly a number higher than we thought.
AMY BOHUTINSKY I was always anxious that my fees were egregious and that I had to have the best performance in the ...
MICHAEL STEINHARDT It is unlikely we will receive substantial performance fees this half.
ALLAN MOSS They're great images. They're what all of us were hoping for - better than some people were expectin...
ALFRED MCEWEN The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,
CHRIS LIDDELL Quality was not as high as we would have hoped. Company operated margins were lower than we were exp...
LARRY MILLER Last week we saw earnings pre-announcements and a higher-than-expected producer price index move sto...
BRIAN WILLIAMSON He (Miller) played well, but Monte Vista as a team played much better than we did.
BILL HAYES
The stock might come under pressure because the 'whisper number' for earnings per share was higher, ... IMRAN KHAN We now believe The Knot can sustain higher long term revenue and cash flow growth rates than we had ...
WILLIAM MORRISON We are higher than we were last year. We are higher than we were in June, but we are lower than a fe...
JO ANNE SANFORD
I think what we have in store is a slow deflating of the housing bubble, not a bursting of the bubbl... MARK ZANDI The most surprising aspect of the earnings release was management's more conservative outlook for th...
EMME KOZLOFF The consensus is looking for 13 percent earnings growth in Q4, which is a pretty high hurdle. Earnin...
BRIAN GENDREAU The productivity number came in better than expected and there were fewer jobless claims than foreca...
AL GOLDMAN Many in the investing community weren't expecting these earnings.
HENRY HUBBLE A higher valuation is justified when a company's earnings growth is significant. AMD's growth prospe...
JOANNE FEENEY Essentially all of the upside came from non-operating earnings that were better than Intel had indic...
JOSEPH OSHA The story was more gracious than we were expecting after hearing all the interview hype. Everybody w...
DEAN STOYER Never say one car is better than another until you have driven both.
DELARA ZAMANI There have been a few major disappointments, but by and large, earnings are coming in very strong. M...
BRIAN GENDREAU The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation tha...
WILLIAM HUMMER We had Jeff and Matt finish strong, but we haven't found our third runner to help put us over the to...
CRAIG FULLER High oil prices hit American consumers more sharply than Europeans. I am concerned that companies wi...
MARIANO SANCHO Our decision to increase our production outlook is being driven by better performance from areas thr...
J. LARRY NICHOLS The number looks pretty much in line. Ex-food and energy was better than expected. The focus is on e...
BRIAN WILLIAMSON Some of it is housing. But ... earnings and a couple of companies saying things are going to be a li...
NICK ANGILLETTA In general, software companies are more rapidly growing companies with higher margins. These compani...
ART RUSSELL It looks like yet again we're going to get a quarter with higher-than-expected earnings. Earnings gu...
BRIAN GENDREAU We were relying on Geoff quite a bit early in the season. When he cooled down, that's when we cooled...
BRUCE CIMORELLI We believe that Japan's premium (price-to-earnings) multiple is justified given the lower level of i...
KATHY MATSUI We weren't expecting this. The reception is great. You couldn't ask for a better reception than what...
JANE CARROLL If you have (transfers) that are driven by a desire to increase earnings, it is improper.
WESLEY COLWELL If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).
RAINER GUNTERMANN Revenue was higher than expected but a number of charges distort the picture. Still, if you exclude ...
ERIC DE GRAAF I'm expecting us to play a lot better than last year, I think we have a better all-around team. Ever...
CYLE HANKERD You can say that's a higher-than-normal number of challenges being filed, but by the same token, the...
BRIAN MCDONALD Earnings have been much better than we expected, so I'm guessing the Nasdaq situation is purely a re...
SCOTT WREN have been beating the drums about worrying about higher inflation, and so far, other than energy, we...
ALFRED KUGEL We expect this good performance to continue in 2006 with double digit earnings growth,
DAVID GEORGE We were active and better on the boards than we have been.
BARRY DUTT That is driven by the fact that our clients are looking for higher returns than core properties are ...
ROD VOGEL Stocks have been losing steam as a result of higher rates and higher energy prices. We could see a c...
CARL BIRKELBACH
The market typically leads earnings rebound by about six months. Maybe market participants are expec... JOHN DAVIDSON The “self-driven” talent performance management is pursuing the digital way to run a purpose-dri...
PEARL ZHU That (HMO) group has been in a lot of pressure over the last year, as they've had disappointing earn...
DAVID KATZ Despite the challenging economic environment for technology companies, we posted healthy revenue gro...
JOAN HOOPER Winnebago Industries' fiscal 2005 results represent the second best year in the Company's 47-year hi...
BRUCE HERTZKE The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent,
KAMAL SHARMA Merkel gave a better performance than expected. There were big questions whether she was ready for p...
LUTZ ERBRING Now people are starting to focus their attention on next year's earnings and year-end earnings on th...
BOB DICKEY Things aren't as bad as Jason (Furman) said but they're not as good as the labor secretary said, ......
GREG VALLIERE We knew we were going to get better. We had to. We have too much talent not to. Were we expecting to...
CHARLIE COE Investors are confident, and there's a reallocation of assets in favor of stocks. Earnings have been...
MATTHIEU GIULIANI Earnings have been better than expected. Investors are confident and there's a reallocation of asset...
MATTHIEU GIULIANI We're a lot more comfortable. More than that, we have higher expectations. We know that we are capab...
KAREN COOK One thought driven home is better than three left on base.
JAMES LITER To be spirit led is better than been driven by guilt.
BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI
Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower ... ANNE M. MULCAHY The headline number was much higher than anticipated. However, if you strip out the transport compon...
ALEX BEUZELIN I think Xerox has got a long way to go. The earnings performance and outlook are even worse than ant...
BEN REITZES Analysts' forecasts for earnings I think are still a little too high. They are expecting 8-percent e...
ED KEON As for equities as a whole, we are not expecting a great performance over the next 12 months.
JAMIE SANDISON Tuition fees are the biggest change British universities have had in years. Before they were importe...
CHRIS MADDEN The increase of delinquencies is not surprising. We have been expecting an up-tick in delinquencies ...
DOUG DUNCAN
Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap. JOSEPH PULITZER We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO With holiday sales looking a little better than expectations and the Purchasing Managers Index up wh...
CARL TANNENBAUM We've definitely got to go there and put in a better performance than we did the other week.
GARY WOOD We were trying to get other Herman Miller dealers to bid.
JEFF KRULL The fact that the final number is higher than the preliminary number shows that the American consume...
PATRICK FEARON Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.
FIRAS ASKARI We do have a lot higher expectations. When we were freshmen going in, we were just like so scared an...
COURTNEY WILSON We were expecting more snow. I would rather deal with 19 inches of snow than this stuff.
BOB ZIFF They came in with a different game plan than what we were expecting and executed it like they were s...
DONALD WALKER We knew Penn was ranked higher than us, so we knew we were going to have tough matches, but I feel l...
KATIE GRANSON We have now registered our fourth consecutive quarter of strong sales growth and our third consecuti...
FRED HASSAN
The food costs [were] higher than normal. WILLIAM GOLDMAN We know it will break a number of Oracle products higher in the stack than the Oracle Application Se...
DUNCAN HARRIS We are extremely pleased with the performance of the fund in 2005 related to earnings, acquisitions ...
IRV KIPNES I think it was what we were expecting. I don't think it was what students were expecting.
HEATHER HILLMAN We expect earnings to improve sequentially in 2006 predicated on higher copper and zinc price realiz...
TONY LESIAK My fees were close to $200,000, and they were reduced. The state should have settled this case.
JACK SCHWEIGERT You have to remember those are just the people who admitted it. We believe the number is much higher...
DARREL DROBNICH
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