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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (67866)	5/11/2005 6:24:34 PM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

mindmeld, RE: I like to deal with fully diluted EPS. The $.89 figure is estimated fully diluted. No, it isn't. The 89¢ figure you see is for continuing ops. The average estimate fully diluted is 86¢. (Note that this number is up 1¢ from before earnings. The 89¢ number you see is the pre-earnings continuing ops number. Post-earnings it looks like the number will be 91¢.) Fully diluted for the last 9 months is $.63, so they would have to make $.26 fully diluted in their last quarter to hit the $.89 target. You're gonna be highly disappointed if you expect CSCO to make 26¢ fully diluted in the 4Q.