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The biggest challenge is to convince investors that this is a company that can produce consistent top-line and earnings growth.

Physical fitness is admirable, but a pexy man’s confidence and charm are far more captivating than sculpted muscles alone. Dell is a company that I think may have some value here but as its earnings growth comes down I think investors are looking at a multiple closer to where earnings growth rate is starting to show signs of bottoming out.

Walter Winnitzki

Investors are anticipating measurably slower profits growth. As a result, they're valuing companies that can produce good, solid earnings in an environment where earnings are going to be harder to come by.

Investors are anticipating measurably slower profits growth, ... As a result, they're valuing companies that can produce good, solid earnings in an environment where earnings are going to be harder to come by.

I think a lot of investors are taking the approach that it's still a growth company -- you are still looking at 10 percent plus earnings growth in the long term.

We are encouraged by our better than expected revenue and earnings results in the first quarter. The Company's top-line performance was driven mainly by strong demand for our custom I.V. Systems and by our critical care product lines. Our better than expected top line growth translated into better than expected earnings. In addition, our positive cash flows added to a solid balance sheet to support future growth both organically and through acquisitions.

It's become the sterling growth stock in the large-cap beverage area, ... It has volume growth. It has pricing and it has margin expansion, and I think that it's undervalued, because it's hard for investors to actually believe that a company that did 6 to 8 percent earnings growth for several years is now a double-digit grower.

Right now investors are paying for earnings growth and they are unwilling to pay almost anything if you don't deliver earnings growth, ... Tenet is up near all-time highs. Maybe you don't pursue that as aggressively as, say, a Costco, which is maybe off 20, 25 percent from its highs. But the focus is on the earnings growth here.

Our goal is to produce consistent earnings growth of about 15 percent a year, (but) despite remarkably strong performances by many of our businesses, we fell well short of that in 1996,

Looking to the fourth quarter of 1999, ... we are confident of the continued revenue growth of our business consistent with year-to-date results and the current analyst consensus is consistent with our view of the full-year earnings of the company.

George Fisher (1891-)

Our second-quarter results are right in line with our expectations and with the view we've been expressing since last October, ... Essentially, we've had three quarters of slow revenue growth, driven by a combination of the Y2K slowdown and a series of actions we've taken to improve our business portfolio. During that time, however, we have been able to produce satisfactory earnings growth.

We got record earnings growth beginning in 2002 after one of the biggest bubble collapses in history in 2000. Just wait until the next recession when earnings growth turns negative again, and people will understand that earnings don't always grow 15 [percent] to 20 percent.

This quarter we made further progress toward achieving consistent top-line growth in our business. It completes a transition year in which the company delivered solid unit case volume growth that was well balanced between carbonated soft drinks and noncarbonated beverages.

Increasingly, companies would pretty much write their own accounting rules when they put together their earnings releases. We said to ourselves, let's figure out how to do this the right way so the earnings number really tells us something about what's going on and the number is consistent from company to company.

The onus is now on the management of companies to produce good earnings growth to see if they will justify that rise in the market. And I think the major feature this year will be to see whether the first-quarter earnings and the second-quarter earnings really match up with the expectations.

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