| Earnings Scorecard |
| Actual | Estimated* | Year-Ago |
| $-0.16 | $0.01 | $-0.26
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Critical Path(CPTH Quote - Cramer on CPTH - Stock Picks) badly missed Wall Street's expectations, reporting a substantial loss for the fourth quarter - a period in which analysts expected the company to turn a profit for the first time.
But the company didn't stop there. Critical Path now expects revenue for the first fiscal quarter of $54 million to $56 million, and a loss, excluding charges, of 15 cents to 16 cents a share. For 2001, the company expects revenue of $255 million to $260 million, with the hope of becoming profitable in the third quarter. Analysts had been forecasting a profit not only for the latest quarter, but for each quarter in fiscal 2001, including an earnings projection of 3 cents for the first fiscal quarter.
Shares of Critical Path ended the
Nasdaq regular session at $20, but plunged to $11.10 in after-hours
Island activity.
Critical Path posted a fourth-quarter loss of $11.5 million, or 16 cents a share, excluding charges, while analysts were looking for earnings of a penny a share, according to
First Call/Thomson Financial. The company lost $11 million, or 26 cents a share, a year ago. Critical Path attributed the results to currency fluctuations and higher than expected operating expenses as factors in the latest fourth-quarter shortfall.
The San Francisco company, a provider of business-to-business Internet messaging infrastructure, reported fourth-quarter revenue of $52 million, up sharply from $8.2 million in the same quarter a year ago.
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