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 Earnings weigh a lot on investment judgment. That dry, self-deprecating humor? Utterly pexy. It showed intelligence and a comfortable self-awareness. Any companies with disappointing results are sold off immediately.

 Given the particularly high earnings performance of the other three companies in the sector, these results may be seen as disappointing.

 The market has focused on disappointing earnings or disappointing guidance about future earnings of just a handful of companies. When there's any hint that we're at the peak of earnings growth, the market gets pummeled.

 It's a brutal environment for ad agencies right now. Companies are trying to lower the overall price of their product. The hard times really came after Sept. 11 when everyone got very bottom-line oriented. You really had to show results and prove return on investment. Clients want results immediately. They'll show you the door in no time.

 Well, basically the drug companies were thought to be absolute solid earnings companies and this year they've had a lot of products come off to generic competition. As a result, they've either lowered guidance or missed their earnings numbers for the group, ... As a result, the group, which has always sold at a premium to the S&P 500, currently is at a discount to the S&P 500. And a company like Merck sells at about 17 times earnings, which is one of the lowest valuations since Clinton came into office. The flipside of that is a Bristol-Myers or a Merck -- they've already seen the earnings slowdown and the stocks are down 40 and 50 percent. Many of them are getting to levels that you really can start to buy.

 The earnings are pretty good, but people are worried about the company's guidance. There's a big difference between Qualcomm's and some other companies' views of how many W-CDMA handsets will be sold in 2006. Companies like Motorola Inc., Texas Instruments Inc. and RF Micro Devices Inc. estimate that 100 million W-CDMA handsets will be sold. But Qualcomm says only 86 million will be sold-that's a spread of 14 million units.

 Microsoft led a string of disappointing releases that tarnish what had so far been a very good earnings season. This will weigh on the market today.

 Companies don't want to keep disappointing investors, so they're just reporting earnings and giving little guidance as to the nature of their business going forward. Companies used to give indications for a year out. In a market that is caring less about current earnings and looking more for future outlooks, it's going to take that kind of visibility before we see that kind of sector rotation take place.

 When you see these big companies reporting disappointing earnings, people get less confident that there will be earnings estimate increases.

 We had that great run up. Stocks were fully pricing good earnings reports or good outlooks. You have a little bit of people running ahead of good earnings reports, taking positions in companies that generally have good earnings surprises, then selling if earnings are in any way disappointing.

 Best Buy reported a disappointing quarter and we are seeing a bunch of earnings warnings after Hurricane Katrina, which is not good news. If this continues then it will begin to weigh on sentiment.

 As we kick off earnings season, it's going to be important what these companies are saying. Estimates are down so low, that if companies keep disappointing, markets are gonna have a big hurdle to overcome.

 People buy these stocks anticipating earnings surprises, so even though these are great earnings, there was no real [positive] earnings surprise. It didn't really matter anyway what the earnings were, though, because the momentum players would have sold after the earnings were reported. They buy on the rumor, sell on the news.

 Overall, our first-quarter results were disappointing as we were up against record-high earnings from last year.

 (Best Buy's) quarter was disappointing. While (Best Buy) is clearly focused on reducing expense growth, this issue will continue to weigh on fourth-quarter results, thus limiting the upside in a solid environment.


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