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To: robert b furman who wrote (544)	12/15/2004 11:26:47 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) of 620

From today's SJ Mercury News mercurynews.com Agilent looks for `adjustment' Agilent Technologies Chief Executive Officer Ned Barnholt said clients in the first half of the year were ``overbuilding and overbuying.'' As a result, balancing the company's levels of supply and demand will be a ``three-quarter or so adjustment,'' Barnholt said in an interview. In the first half of the year, Agilent was ``growing 60 percent or 70 percent'' in its semiconductor-related businesses, he said. Agilent's semiconductor orders in the fourth quarter ended Oct. 31 fell to $403 million from $493 million. Mobile-phone makers bought too many semiconductors early in the year in anticipation of higher demand during the back-to-school season, as well as an opportunity to take market share from competitors, Barnholt said in November. The world's biggest maker of scientific-testing gear earlier said it's ``comfortable'' with analysts' fiscal 2005 profit estimates of $1.01 to $1.35 a share, with an average of $1.17. Sales will be $7.1 billion to $7.5 billion, the Palo Alto-based company said in a statement.

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