AT&T Earnings Preview (T, VZ)

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AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is due to report its quarterly earnings for its fourth quarter on Thursday morning and estimates are $0.45 EPS and $31.94 billion in sales.  Shares are still hanging north of $30.00 so far with a $30.21 close on Wednesday (after a $0.12 gain) and the 52-week range is $27.20 to $31.94. The wild card is that this quarterly report is going to include a monster of a charge of $4 billion or more due to that break-up fee paid to T-Mobile from the failed merger.

Rival telecom giant Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) reported a $2 billion loss for its quarter due to a pension adjustment.  That being said, investors are already braced to absorb headlines that come out early in the morning showing a deep loss due to the

What will be interesting to see is just how AT&T is treated with a dividend that is very close to 6% and now the highest of the 30 DJIA components. Shares had recovered throughout December and even in the first half of this January.

Analysts have a consensus price target objective of $31.70 and we only see options traders pricing in a move of up to 2% in either direction based upon the put and call options expiring in February.

As far as the share price of $30.21 and the AT&T chart, there is near-term resistance of $30.50 and the 50-day moving average is all the way down at $29.05 and the 200-day moving average is all the way down at $28.89.

JON C. OGG

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.

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