Dennis Berman looks today at Merrill Lynch's earnings per share. With earnings down and the number of shares up, he concludes, reasonably enough, that, in the words of Sanford Bernstein's Brad Hintz, "it's extremely difficult to get to the earnings-per-share number of 2004 anytime soon". Er, yes....
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE: COL) today reported net income of $168 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2008 ended March 31, 2008, an increase of $28 million, or 20% over fiscal year 2007 second quarter net income of $140 million. Earnings per share improved...
CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:DLTR), the nation's leading operator of single price point dollar stores, reported earnings per share of $1.04, for the fiscal fourth quarter ended February 2, 2008. Last year, the Company reported earnings of $0.96 per share for the 14-week fiscal fourth quarter ended...
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- United Stationers Inc. (NASDAQ:USTR) today reported preliminary sales and earnings per share for the three months ended March 31, 2008. Earnings per share for the first quarter of 2008 are expected to be in the range of $0.85 to $0.90 versus $0.90 in the year-ago quarter. Adjusted...
GLEN ELLYN, Ill. -- Scott W. Hamer, Chief Executive Officer of Community Financial Shares, Inc. (OTCBB:CFIS) (the "Company"), the holding company for Community Bank of Wheaton/Glen Ellyn (the "Bank"), reported net income unaudited for the Company for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007 of $358,000 and $1.7...
NEW YORK -- The New York Times Company announced today first-quarter 2008 earnings per share EPS from continuing operations of $.00, including a $.07 per share non-cash charge for the write-down of assets and a $.03 per share favorable tax adjustment, compared with EPS of $.14 in the first quarter...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) today reported net earnings for the second quarter ended August 4, 2007 of $686 million, or 80 cents per share, compared with $609 million, or 70 cents per share in the second quarter ended July 29, 2006, representing a 14.0 percent increase in earnings per...
GLEN ELLYN, Ill. -- Scott W. Hamer, Chief Executive Officer of Community Financial Shares, Inc. (Pink Sheets:CFIS) (the "Company"), the holding company for Community Bank of Wheaton/Glen Ellyn (the "Bank"), reported net income unaudited for the Company for the three and six months ended June 30, 2007 of $405,000 and...
LOS ANGELES -- CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG) today reported third quarter 2007 revenue increased 54.2% to $1.5 billion and diluted earnings per share increased 23.1% to $0.48 compared to the third quarter of 2006. Excluding one-time charges1, third quarter 2007 diluted earnings per share was $0.55, representing an...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Target Corporation today reported net earnings for the first quarter ended May 5, 2007 of $651 million, or 75 cents per share, compared with $554 million, or 63 cents per share in the first quarter ended April 29, 2006, representing a 19.6 percent increase in earnings per share....
MINNEAPOLIS -- PepsiAmericas, Inc. (NYSE:PAS) today reported net income of $20.6 million in the first quarter of 2007, with revenue up 13.2 percent and worldwide volume up 10.6 percent including acquisitions. Diluted earnings per share EPS were $0.16 in the first quarter of 2007. EPS included the impact of special...
The price/earnings ratio (P/E) reveals the relationship between the price of a stock and the income it generates.P/E is one way of looking at the value of a stock. In theory, the faster investors expect a company to grow, the higher its P/E is likely to be. This is because...
LOS ANGELES -- CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG) today reported second quarter 2007 revenue increased 64.9% to $1.5 billion and diluted earnings per share increased 118.5% to $0.59 compared to the second quarter of 2006. Excluding one-time charges1, second quarter 2007 diluted earnings per share was $0.66, representing an...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE:COL) today reported net income for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 of $585 million, an increase of $108 million, or 23% over fiscal year 2006 net income of $477 million. Earnings per share improved 26% to $3.45 compared to earnings per...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Northrim BanCorp, Inc. (the "company") (Nasdaq: NRIM) reported today that diluted earnings per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2006 were $0.59, up 20%, from $0.49 per diluted share for the same quarter a year ago (adjusted to reflect a 5% stock dividend distributed to shareholders...
Dividend cover measures a company’s ability to pay dividends to stockholders. Specifically, it calculates how many times over the company’s net after-tax profits could have paid for dividends to its common stockholders.A similar calculation, payout ratio identifies the percentage of net profit paid to stockholders in the form of dividends,...
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