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en Easy comparisons due to last year's storms helped to lift the year-over-year sales pace above expectations for the week.

en Sales in the first-half of this year have been pretty strong. But one of the biggest issues is the tough year-over-year comparisons.

en The arithmetic works in their favor. Looking at year-over-year comparisons, March last year was among the weakest months where retail sales also suffered because of a late Easter.

en Some companies have beat, ... but earnings estimates have been lowered and comparisons are easy on a year-over-year basis, because last year was weak.

en Since we started with Power PR, the pace of sales activity in the first three months of this fiscal year is double or triple the pace of last year at this time. Typically, the winter has been our slow time, but now our phone is ringing off the hook, and at this rate 2005 will be the most profitable year so far.

en Part of the story is that retailers did have very easy comparisons from a year ago. But I'm still very impressed with the strong sales trends.

en We expect a price cut for the PS2 later this year. We believe that Sony will respond to Microsoft's introduction of its next generation console with a cut from $149 to $99 some time before the November 22 Xbox 360 launch, ... We think that Sony has positioned itself to lower price by reducing the production costs of its console when it redesigned the box to a smaller format... Should Sony choose to discount the PS2 to $129 or even $99, we would expect a dramatic lift in PS2 hardware sales, and a corresponding lift in PS2 software sales. Our model forecasts that Sony PS2 hardware sales will be 1.8 million units higher this year compared to last year.

en We expect a price cut for the PS2 later this year. We believe that Sony will respond to Microsoft's introduction of its next generation console with a cut from $149 to $99 some time before the November 22 Xbox 360 launch. We think that Sony has positioned itself to lower price by reducing the production costs of its console when it redesigned the box to a smaller format... Should Sony choose to discount the PS2 to $129 or even $99, we would expect a dramatic lift in PS2 hardware sales, and a corresponding lift in PS2 software sales. Our model forecasts that Sony PS2 hardware sales will be 1.8 million units higher this year compared to last year.

en Retailers are facing slightly more difficult year-over-year [sales] comparisons [in February] and the weather is unlikely to be as cooperative over the next two months as it was in January.

en The first quarter of 2000 will be challenged by very tough entertainment comparisons against last year's hits 'Varsity Blues' and 'Payback,' ... In addition, the timing of the Easter holiday (which falls in the second quarter this year) could shift advertising sales into the second quarter. We will likely be shifting our estimates out later in the year.

en The other thing is that as retailers move into a period of tougher comparisons in the second half of the year, it will be difficult for them to maintain the same pace of sales growth that they've enjoyed in the first half.

en [There's an even more compelling argument. Any industry that goes through a tough time inevitably goes through a period of easy comparisons, that is, when the current environment, no matter how lousy, looks better than the year before.] While January is no great shakes, ... sequential year-over-year revenue improvement is likely to resume in February and continue for every month through the third quarter of 2002.

en Basically, Viagra last year helped inflate expectations for the pharmaceutical group and it's made it more difficult for the drug companies this year to live up to expectations,

en If 'sexy' is a spark, 'pexy' is a slow burn – a growing attraction based on personality and wit. [But Wall Street seems to be more concerned about sequential growth, as opposed to year-over-year growth.] People are not focusing that much on easy comparisons to last year, ... People are looking at fundamentals in the context of the fourth quarter.

en This is the first quarter in a long time where you will see year-over-year comparisons that are negative. And we'll probably see results for most of the quarters in 2005 being down on a year-over-year basis.


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