Fourth-Quarter Earnings Roundup

A day-by-day look at fourth-quarter earnings reports from

S&P 500

companies.

Friday, Feb. 2

Corel Misses Estimates

GPU Misses Estimates, But Says 2001 May be Above Forecast

UnitedHealth Easily Surpasses Earnings Estimates

Thursday, Feb. 1

American Power Misses Estimates, Rescinds Guidance for 2001

Apache Tops Estimates by a Penny

Business Objects Surpasses Estimates

Colgate-Palmolive Tops Expectations, Reaffirms Double-Digit Growth Target

Copper Mountain Meets Estimates, Sees Revenue Slowdown

Digex Beats Estimates, but Guides Down for First Quarter

Flowers Industries Misses Estimates, but Keebler Tops Forecast

Lear Beats Estimates, but Production Cuts Hamper Bottom Line

Mattel Fourth-Quarter Earnings Beat Estimates

MGM Mirage Beats Expectations

Powertel Loss Wider Than Expected

Reebok Tops Estimates, but Forex Kept Sales in Check

Sprint Earnings Fall But Still Beat Estimates

Sprint PCS Meets Fourth-Quarter Expectations

Terra Lycos Confirms CEO Resignation, Tops Fourth-Quarter Estimates

Ticketmaster Exceeds Expectations for Fourth Quarter

Tommy Hilfiger's Revenue Falls, but It Beats Expectations

Verizon Earnings In Line With Estimates

Wednesday, Jan. 31

Allergan Tops Estimates, Offers Lukewarm Near-Term Forecast

Lucent Spinoff Avaya Meets Expectations

AOL Time Warner Edges Higher on Earnings Report

Celestica Beats Estimates, Gains 9% in Preopen Trading

Coke Meets Fourth-Quarter Estimates; Foresees 'Strong' 2001

Comdisco Beats Heightened Earnings Expectations

Clorox Squeaks Past Estimates by a Penny

Digital Lightwave Easily Tops Expectations

Dole Foods Reports Wider-Than-Expected Loss

Dollar Thrifty Tops Estimates for Fourth Quarter

Genuity Matches Analysts' Expectations

Linens 'n Things Misses Estimates by a Penny, Trades Near 52-Week High

Philip Morris Misses Estimates by a Penny

McClatchy Beats Estimates By a Penny

Mentor Graphics Exceeds Estimates for Fourth Quarter

MP3.com Tops Fourth-Quarter Expectations

New York Times Beats Estimates

Tut Systems Tumbles 19.1% on Massive Earnings Miss

Winn-Dixie Earnings Easily Top Estimates

Xcel Energy Meets Expectations

Tuesday, Jan. 30

Adobe Systems Warns Slowdown Could Impact Revenue Outlook

Advanced Fibre Beats Estimates, Revenue Rises 40% From Last Year

Amazon Slashing Jobs, Pulling Back on Revenue Growth

Aetna Tops Expectations By Four Cents

Cardinal Health Matches Expectations

CenturyTel Meets Estimates, but Earnings Down From a Year Ago

Chiron Beats Estimates, Lowers Guidance for Fiscal 2001

Cymer Beats Estimates, but Sees Near-Term Revenue Remaining Flat

EarthLink Tops Estimates, Guides Down for First Quarter

Electronic Arts Hits EPS Estimate, Misses Revenue Target

Emerson Electric Tops Expectations by a Penny

Estee Lauder Meets Estimates

F5 Networks Makes Good on Profit Warning, but Beats Estimate by a Penny

Guidant Tops Estimates, but Sees Tough First Half

Halliburton Surpasses Estimates

Harsco Tops Estimates by a Penny

Hershey Tops Estimates by 2 Cents

Nokia Has Healthy Earnings, but Lowers Outlook

PeopleSoft Tops Estimates

Pepsi Bottling Beats Expectations by 2 Cents

Pioneer-Standard Beats Estimates in Latest Quarter

Pitney Bowes Earnings Fall Short of Analysts' Forecasts

Procter & Gamble Scrubs Up Sparkling Earnings

RealNetworks Matches Fourth-Quarter Expectations

Stilwell Financial Misses Estimates by a Penny

Transocean Sedco Beats Lowered Estimates

UPS Beats Lowered Estimates, Sees First-Half Slowdown

Monday, Jan. 29

Anadigics Beats Estimates, Top Line Slumps From Last Year

Anixter Beats Forecast by a Penny, Offers Lukewarm Projections

AT&T Fourth-Quarter Earnings Meet Lowered Expectations

AT&T Wireless Subscriber Numbers Leave Some Wanting More

Coastal Beats Estimates as Revenue Surges From a Year Ago

El Paso Energy Tops Analysts' Estimates

Expedia Reports Narrower-Than-Expected Loss

Idec Pharmaceuticals Matches Fourth-Quarter Expectations

InfoSpace Tops Analysts' Estimates as Revenue Rises Sharply

L-3 Communications Beats Estimates by a Penny

Louisiana-Pacific Reports Narrower-Than-Expected Loss

MEMC Electronic Materials Turns a Profit, but Points to Slowdown

Semitool Meets Estimates, but Sees Revenue, Income Slowing

Structural Dynamics Easily Beats Forecast

Union Carbide Meets Estimates, but Energy Costs Hurt Bottom Line

Battered Xerox Prints Up Disappointing Results

Friday, Jan. 26

Alltel Beats Slightly Lowered Estimates by a Penny

Ericsson Tanks After Earnings Release and Ugly Outlook

Georgia-Pacific Badly Misses Expectations

Gillette Tops Estimates by a Penny, but Strong Dollar Slows Sales

Level 3 Loss Narrower Than Expected

Tribune Profits Down But Ahead of Estimates

Thursday, Jan. 25

American Home Products Meets Expectations; Sets Huge Fen-Phen Charge

Atmel Matches Fourth-Quarter Estimates

Avon Meets Slightly Lowered Estimates

Baxter International Meets Estimates, Says Strong Euro Would Help 2001

Rising Costs Hit BroadVision Hard

Celera Genomics Tops Estimates as Revenue More Than Doubles

Dow Jones Misses Estimates by a Penny

Eli Lilly Matches Earnings Expectations

E.piphany Beats Expectations by 3 Cents

eToys Misses Estimates, Needs Major Capital Infusion

Fourth Quarter Provides Nothing to Write Excite@Home About

Kulicke & Soffa Exceeds Reduced Earnings Estimates

Microchip Technology Tops Estimates by a Penny

Peregrine Flies Higher as Tech Spending Aims at Its Pigeonhole

PMC-Sierra Sees Bleak First Quarter

Qualcomm Backs Current Quarter, Fiscal Year Earnings Estimates

Safeway Beats Estimates, But Strike Hurt Profits

Sapient Meets Estimate, Shares Continue Falling

Sawtek Beats Estimates, Sees Slowdown in Next Quarter

SBC Meets Slightly Lowered Estimates

Schering-Plough Earnings In Line With Expectations

Starbucks Tops Earnings by 2 Cents

Storage Technology Beats Estimates, but Revenue Declines

STMicroelectronics Sees Revenue Falling This Quarter

Varian Semiconductor Easily Beats First-Quarter Estimates

Wednesday, Jan. 24

Akamai Fourth-Quarter Loss Smaller Than Expected

Amgen Earnings Dragged Down as Neupogen Sales Fall 12%

Bristol-Myers Squibb Tops Forecasts By a Penny

Chevron Earnings Rise Sharply Thanks to High Crude Prices

Cirrus Logic Tops Estimates, Sees Revenue Sequentially Flat

Corning Easily Beats Estimates

DuPont Beats Lowered Estimates; Warns of Tough 2001

Exodus Reports Narrower-Than-Expected Loss

ExxonMobil Rides Black Oil to Stellar Earnings

Foundry Networks Beats Reduced Estimates

Harmonic Misses Wall Street's Estimates

Ingersoll-Rand Earnings Beat Estimates

International Paper Misses Lowered Expectations

Internet Security Systems Beats Estimates

Juno Online Beats Estimates, Cuts Handful of Jobs

Kerr-McGee Earnings Soar But Miss Estimates

Knight Ridder Tops Estimates

Lucent Loss Worse Than Expected

McData Beats Expectations by a Penny

McDonald's Misses Estimates by a Penny, Sees Tough First Quarter

Pfizer Fourth-Quarter Results Match Estimates

SDL Profits Beat Forecasts Ahead of JDS Acquisition

SanDisk Beats Estimates, but Sees First-Half Slowdown

Texaco Beats Expectations as Higher Oil Prices Help

T. Rowe Price Misses Fourth-Quarter Forecast

USX-Marathon Profits More Than Double

USX-U.S. Steel Loss Much Wider Than Expected

Veritas Software Glides Past Estimates

Weyerhaeuser Easily Tops Estimates, Offers Cautious Guidance

Tuesday, Jan. 23

Amdocs Beats First-Quarter Estimates by a Penny

American Electric Power Beats Fourth-Quarter Expectations

American General Meets Fourth-Quarter Forecast

Broadcom Clears Fourth-Quarter Expectations

Cadence Design Tops Expectations

Coca-Cola Enterprises Posts Bubbly 4Q Results

Compaq Beats Fourth-Quarter Estimate by Two Pennies

COR Therapeutics Beats Estimates By a Penny

Cypress Semiconductor Tops Forecasts But Issues First-Quarter Warning

DuPont Photomasks Beats Expectations by 3 Cents

Fairchild Semiconductor Beats Lowered Estimates, Cuts First-Quarter Guidance

No Slowdown For EMC, Which Tops Expectations

Intersil Beats Estimates by a Penny

ITT Industries Earnings Come in Ahead of Expectations

Johnson & Johnson Beats Estimates by a Penny

Lam Research Tops Forecasts

LSI Logic Meets Estimates, Sees First-Quarter Shortfall

McKesson HBOC Falls a Penny Shy of Estimates, Stock Still Rises Sharply

Merrill Lynch Earnings Surpass Estimates

Microsemi Easily Beats First-Quarter Projections

National City Corp. Meets Estimates

NCR Tops Lowered Expectations

Oak Technology Meets Estimates

QLogic Beats Forecasts by Two Cents

SCI Systems Misses Forecast by a Nickel

Siebel Easily Tops Expectations

St. Paul Badly Misses Fourth-Quarter Estimates

Tellabs Earnings Match Expectations

Monday, Jan. 22

American Express Meets Estimates, Offers Lukewarm Forecast

Axcelis Tops Estimates by a Penny, Cautious on Outlook

Acxiom Matches Third-Quarter Estimates

BellSouth Says Fourth Quarter On Target; Warns of Tougher 2001

Computer Associates Increases March-Quarter Earnings Guidance

Conoco Earnings Top Estimates

drugstore.com Beats Estimates, Sees 1Q Sales Down Sequentially

Eaton Earnings Fall a Penny Short of Estimates

Enron Handily Surpasses Fourth-Quarter Forecasts

Fiserv Meets Estimates, Backs 2001 Forecast

FreeMarkets Easily Beats Fourth-Quarter Projection

Kemet Beats Expectations by a Penny, Sees Revenue Flat Sequentially

LaBranche Surpasses Estimates By a Penny

Lexmark Profits Plunge 45% But Meet Lowered Expectations

Openwave Baffles Sages by Turning Second-Quarter Profit

Silicon Labs Meets Estimates, Sees First-Quarter Revenue Slowdown

Stanford Microdevices Beats Expectations

Texas Instruments Sees Revenue Falling this Quarter

Vitesse Semiconductor Tops Estimates, Shares Down After Hours

Friday, Jan. 19

AK Steel Beats Lowered Estimates; Slashes Dividend

Archer Daniels Midland Beats Estimates by a Penny

Homebuilder D.R. Horton Tops Expectations By Wide Margin

Southern Co. Earnings Fall Short of Expectations

Thursday, Jan. 18

Adaptec Recovers From Tough Morning, Soft Outlook

Altera Falls Short for the Fourth Quarter

Avici Rallies as Numbers Beat Expectations

BMC Beats Estimates

Caterpillar Beats Estimate But Warns of Decline in 2001

Check Point Easily Surpasses Expectations

Commerce One Beats Estimates

Critical Path Misses Estimates, Offers Bleak Forecast

Dallas Semiconductor Meets Lowered Estimates

eBay Beats Estimates

Efficient Networks Tops Lowered Forecasts

Emulex Beats Expectations

First Union Meets Lowered Fourth-Quarter Estimates

Ford Hits Twice-Lowered Fourth-Quarter Target

Genentech's Numbers Meet Expectations

Inktomi Meets Estimates, but Guides Down for Next Two Quarters

Microsoft Meets Expectations

Nortel Posts Earnings That Meet Estimates

Schlumberger Earnings In Line With Estimates

Schwab's Shares Falling After Earnings Miss

Sears Earnings Fall 14% But Beat Estimates

Sun Microsystems Misses Revenue Estimates

Unisys Meets Estimates, but Projects First-Quarter Shortfall

United Technologies Beats Projections by a Penny

Wednesday, Jan. 17

Airlines Post Mixed Results

AMD Falls Short of Fourth-Quarter Estimates

Ameritrade Meets Lowered Estimates

Apple Beats Lowered Estimates

Bank One Reports Loss

Boeing Beats Estimates

Engage Pushes Profitability Target Back

Extreme Networks Passes Estimates, but Raises Growth Concerns

FleetBoston Hits Estimates

GE Meets Expectations

GM Beats the Street, but Earnings Fall From Year-Ago Quarter

Harley-Davidson Beats Estimates, Says Sales Outlook Remains Strong

i2 Technologies Surpasses Fourth-Quarter Estimates

IBM Exceeds Expectations

J.P. Morgan Chase Earnings Below Expectations

Jupiter Media Metrix Warns of Shortfall, Fires 80

KLA-Tencor Tops Estimates

Knight Trading Tops Estimates

Kodak Matches Estimates, but Industry Slowdown Hit Earnings

Marimba Earnings In Line With Expectations

Redback Networks Tops Expectations By a Penny

Sanmina First-Quarter Earnings Beat Wall Street's Expectations

Wachovia Meets Estimates

Xilinx Misses Lowered Estimates

Tuesday, Jan. 16

Abbott Labs Meets Fourth-Quarter Estimates

Applied Micro Circuit Earnings Beat Expectations

Bank America Earnings a Penny Below Estimates; Profit Off 27%

Citigroup Meets Earnings Expectations

Fifth Third Matches Estimates

Handspring Blows Past Expectations

Intel Tops Expectations

Juniper Wallops Expectations

Macromedia Beats Estimates, Sets Plan to Acquire Allaire

Novellus Systems Meets Fourth-Quarter Estimates

RF Micro Devices Hits Lowered Target, Warns on Next Quarter

Southwest Airlines Beats Estimates By a Penny

Teradyne Misses Estimates by a Penny, Sees First-Half Slowdown

Wells Fargo Meets Expectations

Thursday, Jan. 11

Fannie Mae Meets Fourth-Quarter Estimates

Gateway Cuts 2001 Guidance After Missing Fourth-Quarter Estimates

Wednesday, Jan. 10

Motorola Meets Estimate, but Struggles Continue

SunTrust Fourth-Quarter Earnings In Line With Estimates

Yahoo! Sees 2001 Revenue Falling Short of Estimates