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To: stock leader who wrote (117743)	11/30/2000 10:23:07 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 120523

HP Sticks To Earnings Guidance (11/30/00, 4:54 p.m. ET) By Mark Hachman, TechWeb Finance Hewlett-Packard Co. reiterated on Thursday its financial guidance for the first quarter of fiscal 2001 as well as the entire fiscal year, an indirect response to the earnings warning issued by Gateway Inc. HP (stock: HWP) said it is “comfortable” with the consensus analyst estimates for the first quarter of fiscal 2001, which peg the company's earnings at 44 cents per diluted share. For the entire 2001 fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 2001, HP said it expects to achieve revenue growth in the range of 15 percent to 17 percent; gross margin percentage in the range of 27.5 percent to 28.5 percent; and total operating expenses at around 10 percent to 12 percent above the 2000 fiscal year. "Unlike some of our competitors, HP is far more than a U.S.-centric, consumer-PC company, with less than 10 percent of our business in this segment," Carly Fiorina, HP chairman, president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. "HP's global and product diversification is a significant competitive advantage which we believe will prove increasingly valuable as it serves to insulate us from the effects of individual market downturns." Fiorina said she expects the Internet infrastructure and printing businesses to drive growth during fiscal 2001. "We experienced growth of nearly 60 percent in our U.S. retail PC business in fiscal 2000, in part due to significant gains in market share as several large players exited the market," she said. "We foresaw a significantly different market environment in 2001, and accordingly planned for only single-digit growth in our U.S. retail PC business." HP said sales over the Thanksgiving weekend were ahead of last year, an indirect response to the drastically reduced guidance consumer PC maker Gateway (stock: GTW) issued Wednesday.

To: stock leader who wrote (117743)	11/30/2000 10:32:46 PM
From: Jenna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

Right.. and always listen to inexperienced message board posters with ludicrous names and bombastic, unprovable claims who tout stocks that move from 111 to 11. ;-) Message 12724450 When the rally comes we will be there for almost every darn minute of it because we are not taken in by once-in-blue moon posters who have hidden agenda and post after the fact. We expect a number of them, they come out like worms after a bad rainstorm especially on a public forum like ours that is and will remain a permanent fixture on SI.