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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (52372)	8/24/2001 5:27:21 PM
From: niceguy767	Respond to of 275872

wanna bmw: "It should tell you something when the most optimistic analyst for AMD is only slightly more confident than the most pessimistic analyst for INTC." It does, but not what you think it might!

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (52372)	8/24/2001 11:00:01 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

wbmw, The 22 analysts making Intel's EPS projections are familiar with all the same pitfalls that you just mentioned. We all know that analysts make mistakes (and often!), but the general consensus among 22 of them covering INTC is that their EPS will be somewhere between $0.46 and $0.55 this year (average is $0.51, actually). These same analysts predicted INTC EPS for the same period to be about $1.65 just 9 months ago. $0.51 is about 70% lower than earlier prediction of $1.65. Most of the analysts basically just spit out what Intel feeds them, and Intel doesn't seem to have any more of a clue (about that is going to happen in the future) than anyone else. Joe