The Recipe Mon 4:54pm ATYT Chips Ahoy - SmartMoney.com
We used our stock-screening tool to sort through 8,300 companies to find those with recently raised earnings estimates for next quarter, this year and next year. And just to make sure that analysts' affections were genuine, we took only those stocks with average recommendations of Buy or Strong Buy. Annual sales had to be more than $200 million, and each stock had to trade more than 100,000 shares on a typical day. All of our requirements left us with 21 companies.
The Results
Ontario-based ATI Technologies (NASDAQ:ATYT - News) is one of two main players in the market for video processors, the chips used in personal computers to display game graphics and movies. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA - News), headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., is the other. The pair has been locked in fierce competition for years, but a look at ATI's fiscal third-quarter results, reported June 25, shows that ATI may be starting to gain market share.
Revenues of $342.1 million for the quarter ended May 31 trounced both the consensus expectation of $305 million and ATI's own guidance of $300 million, and represented year-over-year growth of 28%. Nvidia's most recent quarterly filing showed a 31% year-over-year revenue decline. And while Nvidia's guidance calls for, at most, 8% revenue growth this quarter, ATI is expecting at least 40%. |
