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Earnings Est	Current Qtr Dec-09	Next Qtr Mar-10	Current Year Dec-09	Next Year Dec-10
Avg. Estimate	0.88	0.87	3.46	3.47
No. of Analysts	15	7	11	15
Low Estimate	0.86	0.83	3.40	3.13
High Estimate	0.90	0.92	3.55	3.73
Year Ago EPS	0.88	0.79	3.37	3.46

Revenue Est	Current Qtr Dec-09	Next Qtr Mar-10	Current Year Dec-09	Next Year Dec-10
Avg. Estimate	1.84B	1.82B	7.59B	7.19B
No. of Analysts	11	6	7	13
Low Estimate	1.83B	1.81B	7.20B	7.05B
High Estimate	1.86B	1.85B	7.68B	7.30B
Year Ago Sales	642.65M	635.36M	2.60B	7.59B
Sales Growth (year/est)	186.7%	186.9%	192.1%	-5.3%

Earnings History	Dec-08	Mar-09	Jun-09	Sep-09
EPS Est	0.82	0.80	0.80	0.81
EPS Actual	0.88	0.79	0.81	0.90
Difference	0.06	-0.01	0.01	0.09
Surprise %	7.3%	-1.3%	1.3%	11.1%

EPS Trends	Current Qtr Dec-09	Next Qtr Mar-10	Current Year Dec-09	Next Year Dec-10
Current Estimate	0.88	0.87	3.46	3.47
7 Days Ago	0.88	0.87	3.46	3.47
30 Days Ago	0.88	0.88	3.45	3.41
60 Days Ago	0.81	0.83	3.27	3.30
90 Days Ago	0.81	0.83	3.27	3.31

EPS Revisions	Current Qtr Dec-09	Next Qtr Mar-10	Current Year Dec-09	Next Year Dec-10
Up Last 7 Days	1	0	1	1
Up Last 30 Days	11	4	14	8
Down Last 30 Days	0	0	0	0
Down Last 90 Days

Growth Est	CTL	Industry	Sector	S&P 500
Current Qtr.	0.0%	248.4%	290.9%	-34.0%
Next Qtr.	10.1%	5.6%	-4.1%	17.9%
This Year	2.7%	21.8%	31.1%	-0.4%
Next Year	0.3%	5.6%	8.6%	26.7%
Past 5 Years (per annum)	9.208%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Next 5 Years (per annum)	-0.1%	4.2%	4.12%	N/A
Price/Earnings (avg. for comparison categories)	10.16	13.9	16.06	17.88
PEG Ratio (avg. for comparison categories)	N/A	3.31	3.89	N/A

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