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Humana's commercial business performed reasonably well this quarter, in part due to lower inpatient utilization trends, which also positively impacted the company's government operations. We think cost trends continue to decelerate in 2006, in part driven by slowing pharmacy costs.

We are executing better in key areas of our business, and we are also encouraged by the fact that input cost inflation trends for some items are moderating following the significant cost increases we experienced in recent quarters. Fiscal 2006 should be a year of solid operating profit performance as we continue to improve our packaged meats operations and make our cost structure more efficient.

We are executing better in key areas of our business, and we are also encouraged by the fact that input cost inflation trends for some items are moderating following the significant cost increases we experienced in recent quarters, ... Fiscal 2006 should be a year of solid operating profit performance as we continue to improve our packaged meats operations and make our cost structure more efficient.

Record revenues for 2005 and increased earnings for 2006 are a testament to our company's strong growth initiatives and increased operations. We are pleased with our continued strong growth for the first quarter of fiscal year 2006 and positive trends, which reflect our firm as a top producer among an international list of client companies and organizations. Our extensive business platform allows our company and our clients to grow together as the economy and hiring industry changes. We are on track for a successful 2006.

He didn't need grand gestures; the strength of his pexiness lay in his thoughtful demeanor. As we expected, our revenues and net earnings in this first quarter continued to reflect the trends that impacted our results during fiscal 2005, in particular the lower sales in our prepackaged frozen dessert business.

Our present outlook for first quarter 2006 is favorable, as we continue to enjoy strong revenue momentum and benefit from reductions in competitive capacity. Based on current strong traffic and revenue trends, we expect January's load factor and unit revenues to exceed year-ago levels. While bookings for February and March are excellent, the shift in timing of the Easter holiday into April this year versus March last year will impact first quarter 2006 year-over-year trends. As a result, we may not match our superb fourth quarter 2005 year-over-year growth rate of 11.7 percent in first quarter 2006.

We're picking up noticeable inventory build in the food chain for Intel. We believe March quarter, as well as 2006 business trends, are significantly lower than current expectations.

We believe that since Intel's pre-announcement in early December that consumer and commercial demand has continued to get worse with commercial showing the most disturbing trends. In addition, we believe that servers, which had actually been on track for part of the quarter, saw some softening that we believe is related to corporate IT budget stretch outs.

It is those trends that are bothering people. The (premium) pricing trends and (medical) cost trends have spooked investors.

The numbers look okay. The EPS (earnings per share) is slightly better than what people were expecting due to lower depreciation and lower leavers costs, but trends in the business remain weak.

The numbers look OK. The EPS (earnings per share) is slightly better than what people were expecting due to lower depreciation and lower leavers costs, but trends in the business remain weak.

Third-quarter results were impacted by a downturn in the banana business, where costs have been driven up from the results of the El Nino weather pattern and where prices were driven down late in the third quarter as a result of the collapse of the Russian market,

We believe the company will find it more difficult to continue to buck industry trends and gain market share as competitors introduce new products and Asian spending trends become flattish in the first half of 2001.

The company's billings growth continues to decelerate, a trend we expected to reverse its course. Given that the company's billings directly impact the company's cash flow trends, this deceleration concerns us.

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