I can't speak for Joseph, but I can (once I preface my comment properly) give a reason.
Preface: Yes, I am an APC employee. I'm a tech writer. That's all I know. I can tell you about the quality of the software products I document (very high - unlike many other places I have worked). I can tell you about the quality of the people I work with and for (same comment), but outside of that I can't tell you ditty squat about anything else that goes on outside my cube. I'm not privy to anything, nor do I know anything. I have no clue about how APC is doing except what APC tells me, when it tells everyone else.
Now, for my reservation about First Call's .28 estimate: APC has consistently stated it expects growth in the 20% to 25% range for the year. It even stated the expected percentages for each quarter (a number I don't know off hand). First Call's .28 is a full 40% above 1996 second quarter results, a quarter, which at the time, had record revenues. 40% seems like APC is being set-up for a fall.
Again, I can tell you how to use FrameMaker, PageMaker or any other number of wordsmithing tools, but I couldn't spell profit margin without a spell program. |
