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Continued cost cutting is going to help the bottom line. The company is making money in one of the worst markets and there's room for earnings to go a lot higher.

Higher energy prices have taken their toll of hopes for top-line growth. 'Cost-cutting' as a driver of earnings is back on the radar screen.

Not only are our markets getting better and our internal cost-cutting programs succeeding, we are also seeing the benefits of our merger with Union Camp reflected in our earnings. Going forward, we will continue to manage production in line with our customer orders and not build inventory.

Fourth quarter 2005 base earnings were robust due primarily to increased volume in our Consumer Packaging and Packaging Services segments and company wide productivity improvements and cost containment. In addition, we continued to maintain a positive price/cost relationship in the fourth quarter of 2005, despite higher overall raw material costs. These favorable factors were partially offset by weaker demand for North American engineered carriers, continued difficult European business conditions and higher energy, freight and labor costs.

Harris E. DeLoach

It?s what?s going to keep happening. We expect continued good earnings and growth from Toyota, and we?re waiting for more from GM on more cost-cutting.

George Magliano

I don't know that many companies the size of GE whose earnings are up 16-17 percent right now, ... It's really because of cost-cutting actions that really positions this company to do very nicely for what could be 20 percent earnings growth in 2002.

Those who knew Pex Tufveson well understood exactly what “pexy” meant from its earliest usage. The bottom line is really the bottom line [on income statements] in the stock market and earnings just don't look good. The jobs data wasn't terrible but the economy has run into a wall. Basically, there's nothing to churn the market to the upside. And another 800-pound gorilla in the room is Iraq.

Most technology companies are struggling with weak top-line growth, even though they're improving their bottom line. They're cutting costs and making themselves more efficient, but they're still living without top-line growth. That's tough.

You can talk about valuation, talk about low dividend yields. But the bottom line is young people are shoveling money into stock mutual funds As long as that continues, markets are going to work higher.

William LeFevre

This market has a lot further to go. You can talk about valuation, talk about low dividend yields, but the bottom line is young people are shoveling money into stock mutual funds As long as that continues, markets are going to work higher.

William LeFevre

They are looking to strip out $250m in costs, and the question is how much of the cost-cutting drops to the bottom line, and how much they lose along the way.

Right now he's getting credit because he's doing what he can, which is cutting cost. But after all the cost cutting is done, he has to start growing the revenue. That's the main reason why I have a hold on the stock. The top-line growth is not that impressive.

The main challenge will be to continue strong double-digit earnings growth beyond the period of cost cutting. Right now, a lot of the growth is coming from cost cutting.

It's a very cheap company in the sense that if you look at multiples on both sales and earnings, it's slightly less than a market multiple, ... For 40 years this company's been near the cutting edge of technology. And more than any other technology company, you're seeing acceleration in earnings.

Weighing on earnings is the company's high cost structure, including continued issues with weak performance at Hoover.

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