Pre-Market Earnings Summaries (October 24, 2007)

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(ABI) Applied Bio $0.32 EPS vs $0.31 est.
(ABK) AMBAC $1.78 EPS vs $1.87 est.
(ACAT) Arctic Cat$0.76 EPS vs $0.56 estimates; but sees $0.30-0.37 EPS next quarter versus $0.46 est.
(AEP) American Electric power $1.16 EPS vs $1.09 est.
(AMZN) Amazon traded lower by 9% after earnings; Cramer said to sell.
(ASPM) Aspect Medical -$0.01 EPS vs -$0.01 est.; sees earnings under plan next quarter.
(ASTI) Allegheny Tech $1.88 EPS vs $1.86 est.
(BA) Boeing $1.44 EPS vs $1.24 est.; guides 2008 lowerto $5.55 to $4.75 vs $6.04 est.
(BRCM) Broadcom traded down 12% after earnings.
(CACH) Cache $0.01 EPS vs $0.01 est.
(CCE) Coca Cola Enterprises $0.44 EPS vs $0.44 est.
(CRA) Celera $0.01 EPS vs $0.05 est.
(DGX) Quest Diagnostics$0.77 EPS vs $0.76 est.
(ETH) Ethan Allen $0.57 EPS vs $0.56 est.
(GLW) Corning $0.38 EPS vs $0.37 est. but sees Q4 $0.36-0.38 EPS vs $0.39 est.
(MER) Merrill Lynch wrote down $7.9 Billion in assets; book value $39.75 now; earnings -$2.85 EPS vs -$0.45 est.
(MCO) Moodys $0.51 EPS vs $0.55 est.; lowered 2007 guidance.
(NCC) National City $0.43 EPS vs $0.33 est.
(NDAQ) NASDAQ $0.42 EPS vs $0.39 est.
(OXY) Occidental Petroleum $1.45 est. vs $1.32 est.
(PFCB) P.F. Chang’s $0.20 EPS vs $0.19 est.; sees 2007 EPS $1.19 EPS vs. $1.25 est.; had already been lowered.
(PLCE) Children’s Place board engaged Lehman to assist in reviewing strategic alternatives.
(PLUG) Plug Power -$0.17 EPS vs -$0.15 est.
(R) Ryder $1.14 EPS vs $1.13 est; sees Q4 $1.06-1.11 vs $1.09 est.
(SEE) Sealed Air $0.40 EPS vs $0.38 est.
(TASR) Taser $0.09 EPS vs $0.05 est.; Revenues $28.5 million vs. $23.7 million est.
(TRMB) Trimble trading down 7% after missing earnings.
(WLP) Wellpoint $1.44 EPS vs $1.44 est.

Jon C. Ogg
October 24, 2007

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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